Last Beach Day before Baby!

He's almost here.

So we were lucky enough to have this past Sunday off together thanks to Laura's mom who was nice enough to work for Laura. We very much appreciated the chance to have the day together and we decided that we should have some fun along with a few chores, so we went to the beach. And to say the boys had themselves a grand old time would be an understatement. So we packed up the dogs, a picnic lunch and the kayak and headed off to Jamestown Beach. Now this is not truly a beach as most of us know it, but at the same time in some ways it is even better. It is really just the edge of the river and the edge of the Colonial Parkway and luckily VERY close to home. In fact, by bike we are likely just a few minutes and maybe a mile or so from here.
Well we pulled off of the side of the road and I later found out that I had pulled too far off the road and too close to the beach. There was a sign for overflow parking and I parked next to other cars but unfortunately when the park ranger came by, the other cars were gone and I was parked too close. I also found out that I had broken by-laws J5659L-2, F41139-Q7, H9-44, B091D-06, and HCG52507.

J5659L-2 - parking a motorized vehicle within 12 feet of the sand/grass line along state park property

F41139-Q7 - launching a floating craft from state park property(apparently it is illegal to launch my kayak into the James River from the parkway, I feel this is likely because they are afraid if the park ranger were chasing after me for violating J5659L-2 I might be able to get away by committing an F41139-Q7).

H9-44 - bringing mongrels to state park property without properly leashing them at all times(again would be means of outwitting said park ranger when trying to enforce a J5659L-2 or
F41139-Q7, park close to the sand, jump into my kayak to escape and sick available mongrels on park ranger)

B091D-06 - moving to a new place of residence and not getting license address changed within 3 months(okay so it was my own fault for not getting this done earlier, but I didn't expect to be slapped with all of these violations)

and finally
HCG52507 - taking a pregnant woman to the beach within 6 days of her due date.

All I could say was guilty as charged on all accounts, but luckily he eventually let me off with just a warning and we packed up to leave, but not before gathering up the pups and the kayak and getting a few memories.

Brewser was quite interested in his dad in the big yellow banana boat, but not interested enough to get in the water.....
yet....

But his brother Fenway was ready to challenge Michael Phelps in the 4x200 kayak race. He was following the kayak into the river and later would jump in and swim quite a distance to get the frisbee out of the river. We were quite amoazed at his agility and stamina(although not enough to remove the Outward Hound life vest, plus thats just too fun to say, "Get over here you outward hound!")

And soon Brewser decided that it couldn't be that tough and he jumped onto the kayak, took my paddle in his mouth and then threw the paddle away from the kayak and made me paddle with my hands. He was fine until we tipped a little and then he made a bee line for the shore. He swam just as well as Fenway, but he showed 100% fear instead of the enjoyment Fenway seems to have. But he maade it to shore none the worse for wear.

And this was the end of our day at the beach.

And to think next time, we'll have _____________ _______ Obie in tow with us.

We can't wait.