excursions to Rehoboth Beach

An uneventful week. Tom on the night shift and we are still not really doing anything with our days. He is tired all the time. We are eating in every night and the kids getting to bed on time but I can't think of anything good that is coming out of the night shift. He has requested to go back to days. Arthur had another acting class on Thursday and we saw another play (the Emperor's New Clothes) and a magical walk down the boardwalk under an orange full moon. They played the arcade and Arthur won a stuffed animal (the "everyone-wins-a-prize" game :-) ) and we saw a sand castle the size of a hot tub, with a moat and towers on a hill. The boy with the shovel said "lots of kids" had been working for about two days on it. Some religious group was doing some kind of scavenger hunt in giant chartreuse t-shirts, and two hunky boys were playing frisbee on the beach. There was a cool breeze and the amazing spectacle of the pumpkin-colored moon rising above the crashing waves. Rehoboth really does have a more dramatic beach than Lewes. And it comes alive at night, while in day it's not my favorite place. We have found a little shop called Gidget's Gadgets that is the equivalent of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes; I think it embodies the character of the town as well as anyplace we've visited. They stock things like R. Crumb birthday party favors and a jack-in-the-box of a drunken crow. I didn't buy anything there but I did find a black crocheted bikini in a record shop (go figure where that fits in with their audiovisual line, I guess every shop in Rehoboth is required to stock some form of swimwear) and some Botan Rice Candy (which I haven't seen since the University Co-op had a candy store. There are a lot of great looking restaurants in this town I would like to try, but unfortunately they all look like the kind you'd want to hire a babysitter for. Will write more later about attractions when time permits.