Beach Babies

Every year, a group of my friends and I take a nice little drive up to Ocean City, MD to spend a nice long weekend at the beach. We have places we go each time, including restaurants, ice cream shops, and of course, beach bars. Obviously this year was a little weird. Well, not weird, but different. Before we get to the beach bar part, let's start with the actual beach part. Given that my belly is a little bigger these days, I'm spending most of my time lying on my back or side, definitely not my stomach. All the other times I've been at the beach, I've been an all-around tan girl. I've monitored how much time I spend on each side to make sure that I have a nice even tan. This time around, yep, it was definitely just the front. Granted, we didn't get much time out in the sun given the stupid rain storms, but I got enough to look a little darker than I did last week - but only on the front part of my body. Haha. I spent my few hours out on the beach, lounging in my beach chair, not spending a second tanning my back. Luckily, the color change isn't very significant, so I don't look dark coming and light going... but that's what I thought about the whole time.

So after a day on the beach, we ended up having dinner and drinks at Mackey's. This beach bar is right next to our hotel (the same one we always stay at) and is known for their "buckets." Otherwise known as "64oz of mixed yumminess." It's a feat every year if the girls can actually finish one on their own... I don't know if any of us has actually done it. Either way, this year there was no bucket for me, though I would have loved a bucket of water. So we're there eating dinner, everyone else is enjoying there buckets. No problem. It's really only when I got up to use the bathroom, and had to fight my way through the crowds of drinking beach goers, that things got weird. Honestly, I felt incredibly awkward and completely out of place. Like I said, I'm noticably showing and my outfit for the night didn't help with hiding anything. Not that I want to hide anything, but at a beach bar, surrounded by young 20-somethings, well, it's weird. I felt like they were all staring at me, wondering why the pregnant lady was at the bar. And really, that's the most awakward I have felt this whole time being pregnant. Now don't get me wrong, I had a really really great time at the beach with all my friends, I always do. It was just a different experience this year. I look forward to next year, when we leave the kids with my parents, and we head to OC and drink a bucket, after laying on my stomach sunbathing all day :)