Looking Ahead to Beach Day

One of the few activities that hasn't received a surprise evisceration from pandemics is our upcoming Outer Banks beach trip with the Smith family.

This trip celebrates 8 years since our last beach trip together and boasts several firsts:

• First beach house directly on the beach, with no road to cross.
• First beach trip with Maia, who knows that "the ocean is loud", and gets her own room with bunk beds in it.
• First house in Duck, a town that's equally as "fresh off the bridge" as Kitty Hawk, but feels slightly classier.
• First beach trip with masks at the ready for trips to Walmart and Food Lion and a very low chance of eating inside a restaurant.

We picked the week of the Olympics so we could make fun of whoever the new Michael Phelps is these days. Now that Olympics are totally just postponed and not cancelled in the least bit, we'll have to find another way to entertain ourselves. Any suggestions?