At the start of the summer I had a list of all the places I wanted to take Isa, and God help me one of them was Coney Island. There is just something about this gritty little place that just needs to be a part of our summer plans. So a week ago we finally made it there. It was not the perfect beach day, but Isa didn't seem to mind. It was so dirty I didn't even want her to touch the water, but again she seemed to love the ocean and all the sand. It was an enormous sandbox to her. We hit all the rides and she learned that you must must must scream as loud as possible on rides...especially the Tilt-a-Whirl and Roller coaster. She seems to have brought that lesson back with her to her normal playground activities. We also hit Ralph's Italian Ice on the boardwalk which was so much better than ice cream. Finally we went to the Aquarium that thankfully has been repaired since my last visit a few years ago. Isa loved it. It was a packed day, and as dirty as it may be it still feels like a summer vacation. If you squint really really hard you can even get a glimpse of the way it use to be in its glory days.
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