Trio Beach

Today we decided to go to the beach.  We decided to go in the late afternoon to help avoid the heat. 

I had read Trio Beach was good if you have young kids. A lot of the beaches include taking public transportation or a car to a certain point and then a 30-45 minute hike to the beach.  To get there, we had to take the shuttle from our neighborhood to the train station, 2 trains, a bus (a minibus or "public light bus" with only 16 seats--Tommy has been wanting to ride one of these), then we walked to the pier and we took a boat to the beach.  It took us almost 2 hours to get there.

Our boat to the beach

Trio Beach

When we first got there, the kids play in the sand underneath our umbrella for a while.  They quickly got to work building roads and train tracks and a lake for the trains and cars to go around.

Then we had fun playing in the water for a while.  It was the kids first time in salt water and their first time playing in the waves.

Tom throwing Charlotte in the air.

After we played back in the sand for a while longer, we got changed and rode the boat back to the pier and ate dinner at a Thai restaurant.  We were all very hungry and it was delicious.  By this time, it was 7:30 and we were all very tired.  We went to catch the minibus back to the train station.  Unfortunately, Sunday evening is a popular time for people to be traveling, so buses kept passing us that were full or only had 1 seat open.  After about 5 or 6 buses went by, Tom looked up a double-decker bus we could take instead. (It allows you to stand so rarely is too full for them to stop.)  It was much slower, but we got where we needed to go.  By the time we got home, it was almost 10 and we were all very tired.  It had been a long, but fun day!