Revere Beach

Revere Beach

Our second weekend in the house we decided to split it between unpacking and doing something fun. We have retired neighbors across the street, Victor and Glenda, who are wonderfully helpful. Glenda brought us information on the New England Sand Sculpting Festival that was going on at Revere Beach about 20 minutes away. We decided that would be a perfect Sunday activity.

Glenda suggested we go early and that was good advice. We got there about 10:00 and searched for a parking place. We thought it seemed crowded then. At 2:30 when we left it was much, much more crowded and traffic all along the very long beach boulevard was stop and go. Lesson learned: go to the beach early.

The sand sculptures were cool, and coincidentally the winning entry was by an artist from Tacoma, WA. But the girls were focused on the water and wanted to get in it pronto. We ended up staying for 4 hours and they had a wonderful time. They could have stayed a couple more hours. But even with multiple sunscreen applications they still got a little too much as it was.

The water was fairly chilly at 68 degrees (we heard on the TV weather report). That didn't stop Audrey from enjoying it, though. And we realized that we need beach supplies: an umbrella and beach chairs and sand toys of course (we have some that haven't been unearthed yet). We look forward to exploring other nearby beaches. There are a lot of them.