As one of our summer activities, I knew I wanted to take the kids to the coast and we decided on Newport because it had the aquarium, and poor E has been going through aquarium withdrawals. We totally miss going to SeaLife in AZ together and seeing all the fishies. It was our happy place to mellow out. I had all these plans of doing activities (pulled taffy, aquarium port holes craft, tissue paper fishes) with the kids during the week leading up to the trip, but being a faker single mom is exhausting (seriously, don't know how real single mommies do it and work) and those SO did not happen *sigh* Maybe next time. I really wanted to make pulled taffy with the kids. First stop . . . the beach. Kids were really excited to get to use their sand toys in sand. I was really excited to listen to the soothing sounds of the ocean and take some pictures. Hubs was still working, so he worked on scouting out a spot that his web access would still work, and then finally gave