The third week of June was our family vacation to Bethany Beach. This was our third year going to Bethany and staying at Sea Colony, and we’re still enjoying it every time we go. The condos are right on the beach, there are multiple outdoor and indoor pools, and there are plenty of activities offered that we can take advantage of if we want. The beaches are beautiful for playing in the waves, sunning, and taking beach walks.
On our first evening there, we walked the beach after dinner and found tons of horseshoe crabs that were washing up on the beach. Lyla made it her mission to toss every one of them back in the ocean. We also found the cutest little sand crabs that were starting to come out as the sun was going down. When it got dark, the sand was literally alive with all the crabs! We found them to be kind of cute though in the light!
The weather was great while we were there, but the ocean water was pretty cold. We celebrated Father’s Day at the beach on our first full day there (we arrived Saturday) with some delicious donuts and a day at the beach. Nina’s bestie, Grace, was in Bethany for a softball tournament and was heading back on Sunday, so the girls enjoyed having some fun at the beach before she headed home.
In the evening after dinner and showers, we often walked down to the boardwalk and either listened to music, shopped, or got ice cream (or all of the above). We saw some beautiful sunsets and beach scenes in the evening walks.
Most days were spent down at the beach after breakfast, coming up to the condo for lunch, then heading back down until the late afternoon. Often, the girls would like to stop at the pool just off the beach on our way up to the condo, but each day they got in their fill of boogie boarding time, wave riding, playing in the sand, and paddle ball games.
One afternoon, it appeared that a quick rain shower was going to pop up on the beach. Since we didn’t think it would amount to much, we didn’t take the simple walk back to our condo - we thought we would just wait it out under the umbrella. Turns out, we were only like one of five or six families that decided to wait it out - literally the entire beach cleared out in minutes. What seemed like it was going to be a little rain shower, was actually quite a bit of rain and thunder. We decided to make a run for it in the rain back to our place, and go figure, as soon as we got inside, the rain and thunder stopped!
There was Bingo on the pool deck right outside of our condo on two nights during the week we were there, so we had some fun playing Bingo (although we didn’t win anything this year), and we ate dinner in our condo most nights and went out for ice cream afterwards, but on the nights we did go out to dinner, we tried some new places and enjoyed seeing what Bethany had to offer that we hadn’t tried before.
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