First Beach trip - Long Beach

We took our first trip to the beach on Sunday, May 30th to Long Beach. We had been to this one before.

We took the Long Island Rail Road. We stopped at Subway to pick up a couple of sandwiches and sodas. We walked to the beach with anticipation of our first beach day of the summer season.

The weather was windy but sunny. The beach was crowded but we spotted a vacant spot and set up camp. We both love the ocean and I could sit and look at it all day. The perpetual wave motion is mesmeric. It makes you feel at peace and gives you a sense of security, knowing the waves will continually pull towards the shore. The waves are so powerful, reminding me there is a higher power that created the waves and that they're not acting on their own.

We both brought stuff to read. And then it is always tradition that Todd makes us get in the water. But this time it was only our feet, since the water was still too icy to go further in.

It was getting later and it was cooling off, so we decided to pack up and head home. We knew there would be more beach days ahead of us and we were looking forward to them.