せっかく計画を立てても明日何がおこるか解らない。本当は今週末にマディソンのおじいちゃん、おばあちゃん、おじちゃん、おばちゃん、いとこ達とジョーンズ海岸に行く予定でいたけど月曜日にリンダから電話が来てリンダのおばさんが亡くなった事を聞きました。小さなマディソンといぬ２匹を連れて金曜日の夜遅く行くのは大変すぎとお葬式には行かない事に。
So Anna and I decided to still try-out Jones Beach...again, but this time we were armed with our tent and we were going to make it off the boardwalk for the first time this summer. The Bugaboo (as you can see in the video) cut through the sand like a hot knife through butter!! It was fun to watch others with their more practical strollers have to struggle to carry them through the sand while I ran circles around them with my Bugaboo!! You know how you sometimes see a Semi truck go through a big puddle and you think...oh that looked easy...and then you don't make it...well I think that happened to the stroller that entered the sand after us...I think they saw my Bugaboo kicking butt and thought they would give it a shot...they didn't last a yard!!! Alright, enough about the Bugaboo and its magical powers...back to the beach. We found a nice spot right down by the water...at this point Madison was sleeping which made set-up easier...a few minutes into our getting settled on the beach, the little one awoke so Madison and Anna shuffled into the tent and did their thing...then Madison laid in the tent a little, but couldn't get comfortable...we began to have flashbacks of last night's ballgame when she refused to settle and we were about ready to pack everything back-up, but we tried one switch to the Bugaboo and I was able to rock her into closed eyes...it was very exciting because it meant I could go back to some of the best waves I had ever ridden at Jones Beach...the kind that break a nice distance out and don't have a vicious under tow...Daddy liked very much!!! So all in all we stayed about two hours and learned that next time we could pack a little lighter, but in the end, I thought it was quite an accomplishment for the three of us!
なのでジョーンズ海岸にまた行く事に決定でも今回は準備満々で初めて砂浜まで行く計画。バガブーだと砂の上でも楽々に移動する事ができて大満足、他の家族が安物のベビーカーで苦戦しているのを見てちょっと悪い気が...波打ち際の近くに場所を見つけて早速設置開始！マディソンが寝ていたからすぐできました：）全部広げ終わった頃マディソンが起きてきたので新しく買ったテントを使ってママのミルクを飲みました。でもやっぱり慣れてないところではなかなか寝付けなく昨日の野球試合の時のように家に帰らなきゃ行けないかなーと思っていたらパパがマディソンをバガブーに移して揺すってみる事に...結果は？成功！パパは海に入って波乗りを満喫。結局２時間近くいる事に成功！来てよかった：）
Madison's beach outfit海用の服
Our spot in the sand...yep we got it all down there in one tripクライン家の居場所
Anna providing lunch for Madisonマディソンの食事中
Madison giving her daddy a few more minutes with the waves and her mommy some much deserved rest.やった〜マディソンお昼寝中：）
As promised...the Bugaboo in action...eat your heart out Maclaren!!
P.S. Yes Madison is really in there and enjoying the ride!
バガブーが砂浜の上を楽々と移動している様子。マディソンはこの中に居心地良さそうにしています！
Yeah our 'practical' stroller does horribly in sand. It has two sets of small double wheels in front and it's just too much friction. Our jogging stroller with only 3 big wheels does well, though. But the BEST stroller we have for sand (we have 4 strollers btw) is our double biking/jogging stroller. It has HUGE wheels and practically rolls on it's own in the sand. The bugaboo is well-designed to go through sand, though! I'm glad you didn't have to abandon ship early because of a fussy baby. The tent looks nice. I was paranoid about Lily being in the sun when she was little, so would have had to have one of those to go to the beach!
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