I’m back on Chincoteague Island for a very quick trip with my mom. My niece, who is more like a sister to me and daughter to my mom, is here with her husband and two kids. She wasn’t able to line up her week with ours earlier in the summer, so we came down for two nights to visit. We don’t get to see them often, since they moved to Ohio in November. My mom has really been missing the last of the “babies” (they’re nine and eleven).
My younger sister and I had planned to take both our parents, but my dad’s health has been complicated lately, and nobody felt comfortable taking him somewhere where the nearest hospital is an hour away.
When you only have two days here, you have to embrace every opportunity. After dinner, I swam in the ocean with the kids and made one of them into a mermaid and the other into an octopus in the sand and then watched the sun go down over Tom’s Cove.
I got up at 5:30 this morning as quietly as I could and slipped out to see the sunrise over the ocean. Then I biked around the wildlife loop and then to my favorite coffee and pastry shop.
Next: pick up some sandwiches and get ready for the beach.
My Corner of the Village 