Stop # 7- Ocean City, Maryland not New Jersey!

Did you know that there is an Ocean City, New Jersey & an Ocean City, Maryland ? Even more...did you know that they are both about 4 hours from Wheaton, Maryland!! When we began our weekend journey to Ocean City our van headed towards New Jersey when in fact we should have been heading to the coast of Maryland!! A few laughs later we correct our route and we were off to Ocean City Maryland for the weekend :) When we arrived we quickly changed clothes and headed for the beach.
We were very excited to see a traditional board walk with lots of fun shops, food and street performers. The beach in Ocean City is quiet large. We were surprised how deep it was, there were soccer fields upon soccer field set up in the sand as well as volleyball courts. The board walk to the beach was quiet a walk, but then the Atlantic Ocean was there at our feet.
As you can see from the pictures above, lots of people were buried in the sand. Shells were a hot item to Jacob and Addison and lil Adam was as you can see from the lack of beach pictures always in the water!!

We enjoyed our weekend at the beach. Grandma and Grandpa scoped out a great location! Uncle Jon & Dad used masks to find shells and the crab that you can see on the bottom left of the collage. I don't know if Alex will want to play with crabs anytime soon though! He picked up the crab from out of the sand and it gave him a pretty good pinch, it even broke the skin :) The last night we were there we walked the board walk after dinner. The board walk was over 2 miles and at the end in the sand they were flying large kites. Some of the kites weren't even being held, they were just anchored to the ground some how.
The weather was perfect, the company was great and the memories will last a lifetime!!