Le deuxième jour à la plage

So I said I'd keep the posts to a minimum - not so.  I took some more pictures of the beach the next day.  It was so sunny and blissful.  So here are some photos.  


Before I got on the long bridge to Gulf Breeze, I saw some news trucks and had to pull over.  The guy in the green/grey shirt invited me to check out the inside of the truck.

I got some shots of the anchors from the different stations.  

Of course I got photos of the boom - the orange thing in the photos that is supposed to protect our shores from the oil that is on its way.

A photo to leave with you of that excursion ---

After the second bridge, I saw another news crew.  This one was a local news crew from Houston.

On my way to my normal beach spot, I spotted ANOTHER news crew in front of the Hilton.  Alas, I couldn't find the anchors, so I just chilled at the beach in front of the Hilton.  

Here are some other people enjoying the beach.

I did the classic 'Myspace' photo.  Every teen knows how to take pictures of themself.  You can interpret as another example of how self involved the teen is.  I say it's just skill.  Then I boldly asked some passersby to get a picture of me.  

Some more shots of the hotel and the pier leading to it.

A final shot from that elusive news crew...

La plage encore, avec photos

Still not in France, but I'm communicating frequently with the au pair over there, Lauren.  She's great.  

So I won't inundate the blog with posts before I get to France, but I did want to share a few pictures from my trip to the beach.  The water was rough, speaking of inundation, and people weren't supposed to be in the waters.  Of course it was great for the surfers.  Made me wish I still knew how to surf.  I'll go again tomorrow, and see if I can get some more pictures.  I want to keep going until they won't let us anymore.

I actually stole one of the surfer's water bottle to put some of the beach water and sand in there.  Somewhere out there is a dehydrated surfer, and I'm sorry.  

La plage et l'huile

First of all, thanks to Léna Roy for the clever blog name.  Her blog is listed on the right as really the only blog that I follow.  If anyone can give me the addresses of interesting blogs, let me know.  I'm really enjoying the blog world.  Léna is coming out with her first novel, "Edges" in December.  She is the greatgranddaughter of Madeleine L'Engle, one of my favorites.  She has a great deal to live up to, but I'm guessing she has a great deal of talent as well, especially judging by her blogs.  


So this blog is supposed to be about my trip to France, but I'm not there yet.  I will be going to Normandy, minutes away from the beautiful beaches.  Today I am going to go to the beach here in America, and hopefully tomorrow as well, because I am also only minutes away from the beaches.  I hope that we are all predicting the worst (le pire) and that it will not actually happen, but of course I'm preparing for a catastrophe.  So I will take my camera and get some last shots.  


I'm going to try and volunteer as soon as I get any information.  I went to deepwaterhorizonresponse.com to get the number for the volunteer information.


Also, I just spoke to my French family on Skype.  Right now, they have an au pair, and she's been there since March.  She'll be there when I get there to show me the ropes.


Here's a picture of me and my family at the beach.