Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We did a spontaneous thing this weekend. Our daughter called and invited us to spend overnight with them at their Air B&B and we did. I had promised to take a friend to BART to catch her flight to Berlin, but when I got back Sunday morning we loaded the car and drove south. Their rental was roomy and they gave us their king sized bed, and they took the sleeper sofa. The beach was pristine and huge, and we had fun with the boys digging for sand crabs and making castles and roads. That afternoon we took a long hike at Moss Landing wildlife refuge, and though we didn't see seals or otters, we saw pelicans, herons, sandpipers and ducks. The boys were intrepid, with the one year old trudging mile after mile while his older brother rode in his stroller. We picked up seafood dinners and came back exhausted. Yesterday morning we went to the beach again and played, then packed up and drove looking for tidepools, but the whole world was on the beach, and we couldn't get a parking space so we split up and they took the boys to a playground and then headed back to have a barbeque at a cousin's house, and we took highway 1 and enjoyed the views and masses of wildflowers. We didn't even encounter traffic, except at Half Moon Bay, where they design it so you give up and stop somewhere. But we didn't. I made waffles for dinner and we were exhausted but happy. A nice surprise for us, and we love those close encounters with the third kind: grandchildren.