At the Beach (cont.)
 

Actually, we’ve been back from the beach for a while, laboring away at work, shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstone, and all that….But two final comments just to finish off last week’s Bethany Beach-based reflections.
 
1. After all the drama (ok, it was kind of a pseudo-drama) of my not being able to get the Sunday newspapers at the Rhodes 5 & 10 in Bethany and having to go up the road to Wawa to buy them, I should report that the papers sat basically unopened all week (except for the Times magazine, for the crossword). But it felt good having them sitting there while we all kept up with the news on our laptops and mobile devices.
 
2. I’m sure several of you were shocked by my failure last week to mention Funland in Rehoboth, always a highlight of our beach vacations. We hadn’t yet been when I wrote a week ago, but we did of course visit Funland a couple of times in the next few days. I’m pleased to report it seems totally unchanged from when I first set foot there 30 yeas ago (and probably from when it opened over 50 years ago). More important, you’ll be relieved to know that when I took a break from supervising or pretending to supervise the grandchildren, I won the horse game twice (in only four tries!)–one a stirring, come-from-behind Phelps-like victory. It was the talk of the boardwalk. At least it was all I talked about for the next day or two…