What A Beach!?

After the scorcher of a summer day that yesterday was, I figured I'd hit up the beach today for some reading (Atlas Shrugged), walking and people-watching. The closest "beach" is really man-made surrounding a lake. Dig too far into the sand(about 2 inches down) and you will find black stinky "sand". The lake is pretty yes, but the beach leaves much to be desired, which makes me ecstatic that I will be at the true beach - yes next to an ocean in just 3 short days (Friday!). So, I sat at the lake and thought of the real beach.

I never really go into natural bodies of water... I prefer pools (once again that whole nature vs. me thing) I did put my toes. For the 5 hours I was there I mostly looked like I was reading when I was actually people watching - probably one of the most underrated past times. I'm sure most people may not willing admit to large amounts of people watching, but how can you not pay a little attention when people yell at their children to behave or when adults act strangely like small children (splashing about or otherwise being immature). Highlights of the outing included:
1. Getting hit by a ball - luckily hit by a small girl so no serious injuries resulted
2. Getting free redbull (Thanks to my age no doubt and cool appearance of a trend setter - yes people probably want to be me (no probably not))
3. Seeing a "rescue" of a boat that was most likely tipped over by horseplay
4. Thinking of what would happen if I tossed this lady's cigarette's into the lake - her beach party was bigger than mine so I figured I'd let it go
5. And probably the best of the day: watching a small toddler flap about in the water half fish-like half beached whale - like - pricelessly entertaining and cute.

PS Springfield, VT has officially won the premier of the Simpson's Movie. And on another exciting movie note: the Harry Potter movie comes out tonight at midnight, am I dorky enough to try and get in to see it tonight? We shall see. I wanted to try and watch all of the ones before it (I don't read the books) but only managed to watch the first one over again.