what to do on a cloudy fourth?

We hoped that our little sun would come through the cloudy layer but he never made it. We had envisioned our fourth with warm weather, sand, salty water, and good waves to surf-- all that fell through. So what to do on a cloudy fourth? Have a wonderful breakfast with friends and family which we took our sweet time with, jump on trampolines, go down to the beach anyways, surf on tiny waves, eat sand (miss Ella was enjoying it by the fistfuls!), collect sand crabs, pretend the weather is fabulous and send your kids out into the water, warm them up as they come in shivering, take a lovely 4th of July nap, play some ping pong with your hubby, go to a block party, listen to live music...

... and it's a good thing that the sunshine doesn't make a difference for the fireworks! We loved the fireworks show that we watched on a grassy golf course. Krew was a little scared so he snuggled with dad and held his shirt real tight.

(Yes, there is a bit of tug-a-war going on in front to take a picture and to prevent a bitten glow stick. The glow stick was eventually broken and we and our friends were sprinkled with glow stick)

Even though we didn't come back from the beach warm and sun-kissed, we still had an awesome time. But mr. sun, we're counting on you next year.