Back from vacation, spent a week on Long Beach Island. The water was warm, the jellyfish abundant, and the beach largely gone from erosion - but it was all good.

As usual, I tend to think of these vacations as mini-drills (in my mind only, I don't subject the family to my Walter Mitty mind) and once again, I find that in a real evacuation situation, for each kid you have add a zero to the degree of difficulty. Suffice it to say we packed until the minivan was approaching neutron star density, and we STILL ended up driving off-island to a Target store to buy a boatload of supplies that were left behind accidentally.

But all in all it was loads of fun and we had a great time.