Wallis Sands State Beach, Rye, NH
For our twelve-year anniversary, MonkeyPants and I went to see the ocean. We figured it might be awhile before we got back there since we're moving out of the state in two weeks. Apparently a gazillion other people were having anniversaries, too. This picture doesn't adequately portray just how many people were at this fucking beach.
The crowd was quite a disappointment after visiting the ocean with my parents in late December when we were the only ones there. Global Warming had given us a beautiful day at the beach in December in northern New England. That time it looked like this:
Those are my parents.
Anyway, there's almost nothing that compares to seeing the ocean and getting a chance to reflect on your own smallness and the world's bigness. I suppose that's scary for some people, but it helps me put things in perspective. Plus, it's cool for two fat chicks from Iowa to be able to look out over something so vast (that doesn't involve corn).
So, happy twelve years, MonkeyPants! Thanks for the ocean!
1 comment:
We used to go to Rye beach all the time when we were at UNH. Then when we moved to upstate NY, it felt weird being landlocked all the time -- so we went to Lake Ontario and pretended it was the Atlantic.
It's no substitute, but it will do in a pinch. From some angles you can't tell there's an opposite shore!
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