Today the girls and I had a wonderful girls adventure type day. We decided to break away from our regularly scheduled homeschool day and make a day of our own. There is a beautiful photography exhibit currently being held at the Daytona Beach Community College called Kiss the Sky that has amazing photos by Henry Diltz. Click on the link and check it out because it's explained better there than what I could do. In a nutshell Henry was a musician that picked up a camera in the 60's and started photographing all of his friends and the musicians of the time. Not only did he photograph musicians, but he also made some very cool "head shot" type portraits of the people around him, and also groups of people, attending love-ins and be-ins, parties in the woods, people just living their lives in and around California in the 60's. The exhibit was not only beautiful photographically, but was a fascinating look back at the culture of the time. Hairstyles, clothing, face paint and makeup, how people lived on the road, it's all there in stunningly rich color. I highly recommend it! Orlando weekly had an article about the opening if you'd like to check that out. There are a few more photos there.
One thing I had forgotten as we planned our outing to Daytona was that Bike Week is happening now. It jams traffic up, and makes it a bit harrier driving with line after line of bikers, but it's actually a hoot! We enjoyed checking out all the different types of bikes, and bikers. Ahhh, people watching at it's finest.
After the exhibit, we left Daytona and headed a bit south to New Smyrna Beach for an afternoon on the beach. What a gorgeous day it was, high in the upper 70's, sunny. We parked our stuff on the 27th Street beach, which has a great little pavilion, bathrooms, and playground, and is the end of the line for those wanting to park on the beach. You can drive on and make a left, but to the right it's No Parking. We have done the "park your car on the beach" experience, but found it to be very much like hanging out in a parking lot. Not exactly what we're looking for. One year Makenna saw a girl get backed over by a truck so, that'll make you not want to be on the drive on part, eh?
We spent the afternoon stretched out in our sand chairs, reading, making drip sand castles (Makenna and my favorite), snacking, playing paddle ball, going for walks, and generally goofing off. At one point when Kena and I were playing paddle ball, the ball went rolling away
from me and an agressive seagull swooped in and scooped it up. He was actually flying around with all the other seagulls chasing him, as if he had a huge tasty morsel in his mouth. I think Makenna and I both watched the whole thing with our mouthes hanging open as he flew out to sea, then back again thankfully, with our one and only ball in his mouth. Eventually he dropped the thing not far from where he picked it up, but it was a bit of a surreal moment.
After the beach we hit the Frosty Gold - or some such name, I'm making that up, but who can remember this stuff - for some ice cream. Jordan opted for Nachos and Cheese. We got the ditzy counter girl, you know what I mean..the shop was busy and you either are going to get the one that's with it and efficient, scopping ice cream generously, moving confidently, or you are going to get the one that looks like she's never scooped a cone in her life and was faxcinated by ice cream scoops in general. We got the latter one. She scooped Makenna's ice cream like she was sculpting it, and at one point came out with a little basket of chips and asked Jordan if she wanted cheese with them. I mean, um, yes, please, otherwise it's a $4.00 basket of corn chips. Ah, yes. But we had fun, yes we did.
Home to Rich and pizza and showers and hanging out, waiting for bed time because the beach just takes it out of me.
A good first beach day.
One thing I had forgotten as we planned our outing to Daytona was that Bike Week is happening now. It jams traffic up, and makes it a bit harrier driving with line after line of bikers, but it's actually a hoot! We enjoyed checking out all the different types of bikes, and bikers. Ahhh, people watching at it's finest.
After the exhibit, we left Daytona and headed a bit south to New Smyrna Beach for an afternoon on the beach. What a gorgeous day it was, high in the upper 70's, sunny. We parked our stuff on the 27th Street beach, which has a great little pavilion, bathrooms, and playground, and is the end of the line for those wanting to park on the beach. You can drive on and make a left, but to the right it's No Parking. We have done the "park your car on the beach" experience, but found it to be very much like hanging out in a parking lot. Not exactly what we're looking for. One year Makenna saw a girl get backed over by a truck so, that'll make you not want to be on the drive on part, eh?
We spent the afternoon stretched out in our sand chairs, reading, making drip sand castles (Makenna and my favorite), snacking, playing paddle ball, going for walks, and generally goofing off. At one point when Kena and I were playing paddle ball, the ball went rolling away
from me and an agressive seagull swooped in and scooped it up. He was actually flying around with all the other seagulls chasing him, as if he had a huge tasty morsel in his mouth. I think Makenna and I both watched the whole thing with our mouthes hanging open as he flew out to sea, then back again thankfully, with our one and only ball in his mouth. Eventually he dropped the thing not far from where he picked it up, but it was a bit of a surreal moment.After the beach we hit the Frosty Gold - or some such name, I'm making that up, but who can remember this stuff - for some ice cream. Jordan opted for Nachos and Cheese. We got the ditzy counter girl, you know what I mean..the shop was busy and you either are going to get the one that's with it and efficient, scopping ice cream generously, moving confidently, or you are going to get the one that looks like she's never scooped a cone in her life and was faxcinated by ice cream scoops in general. We got the latter one. She scooped Makenna's ice cream like she was sculpting it, and at one point came out with a little basket of chips and asked Jordan if she wanted cheese with them. I mean, um, yes, please, otherwise it's a $4.00 basket of corn chips. Ah, yes. But we had fun, yes we did.
Home to Rich and pizza and showers and hanging out, waiting for bed time because the beach just takes it out of me.
A good first beach day.
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