Margopalooza

Yesterday at our beach, Margo (our summer local and party planner) hosted the annual "Margo-palooza" beach party! What a fun time was had by all!
Every one of the 150 or so attendees brought food and drink and celebrated the reason we love Ocean City-good friends and nice families who appreciate the beach and all its wonder.
The evening is really meant to instill fun and comradery among the children but the adults enjoy it as much as it reminds us to slow down and enjoy the quickly fleeting summer.
The kids loved the egg toss and tug'o war (boys against the girls with the girls kicking butt!) Then they especially liked challenging the moms for a match of tug'o war in which they pulled heartily then promptly dropped the rope and watched Moms fall all over each other! Luckily for us it was before too many mojitos. My favorite game was the watermelon race. A large watermelon was greased with crisco and dropped in the ocean out in the breakers. First kid to bring it in wins - what a slimy whoot!
The acoustic guitar player/ singer was awesome playing every great sing-along song you can imagine (American Girl, Brown-eyed Girl).
It was a perfect evening brightened by a near full moon, tiki lights surrounding the guitarist and 500 or more glow necklaces dancing about the beach.
Our beach is so unique in that most of the people are regular summer residents that we have come to know and love. We are very fortunate that we, and our children, have such great "summer" friends!