Dance.

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”  

William Stafford

Bikes & Trails.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. - John F. Kennedy

We discovered the Marblehead bike trail this past week. We rode it into Salem, about 4.2 miles there, so a little over 8 miles total. It also goes right into downtown Marblehead, which is nice because the roads are very narrow near Old Town and this will be a much better way to explore town.

Maritime Festival & Harvard.

Posted by: Stephen Jr

It is fun living here in Marblehead. We went to the Maritime Festival in Salem where I got to hold a real live starfish. It was really soft and kind of squishy and slimy. We also saw a live one in the harbor when we were sitting on the dock by the lighthouse looking down into the water, and it was white. It buried itself under the sand, I could see it digging down. And I saw a huge white shrimp. I also got to touch a flounder and a lot of small crabs. I held the crabs and got pinched by one but it didn’t really hurt because it didn’t get me too good. I made a kite at the festival, too and we got to fly it on Derby Wharf while we were waiting to make wooden sailboats. We got to go on The Friendship which is a huge sailboat and see where the crew sleeps. I also got to go on a paddle board. Mom was scared I was going to fall off into the harbor but I did great and really want one of my own now. I stood up on it and never fell. 

We also took a trip to Harvard, which is a university near Boston. We saw a lot of old buildings and walked around. Mommy and I went into a bookstore and I got to pick a book. I picked “Boy” by Roald Dahl. I haven’t started reading it yet because I have so much more to read yet. The bookstore was huge and was really cool.

My new house.

Posted by: Alex

I love my new house. I went to the beach near my house. I love going to the beach and riding the waves with my body board. I really want a surf board or a paddle board. Maybe soon. We got a Lizze a new tube to sit in the water, I hope she will like it. I used to have one just like it. Sometimes we find clams, crabs and shrimp in the puddles in the rocks. I went to the Maritime Festival and did a muck walk and found a bunch of crabs there too. That was fun and Mommy signed us up to adopt the beach near our house so we can keep it clean and make sure no one is putting trash on the beach which can get into the ocean. Sea turtles like to eat jellyfish and sometimes they can mistake a plastic bag for a jellyfish which is not good at all. I love sea turtles and all the sea animals. We found a stingray on the beach and tried to save it by putting it back in the water but a seagull got it back out. I felt sad for the stingray but Daddy said seagulls have to eat too. We took a picture of it. 

Happy.

“Happy. Just in my swim suit, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that’s the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there.” - Jack Kerouac

Stormy Sea, Happy Me.

Today we had an absolute blast on the beach. We went down at low tide to watch the storm roll in. I've never seen anything so incredible. We ended up getting poured on and had to run out of the water and up the rocks to jump into the van, but I'm pretty sure this is some of the best living I've done in awhile!