the beach at Diani

Justin and I are beach people.  We will forever prefer to vacation with an ocean out our front door.  When it was just the two of us we would lay on the sand and read until we got too crispy and they jumped in the cool ocean.  Our beach vacations are not nearly as lazy now.  Mostly, we are building sand castles or digging with plastic shovels, picking up seashells, holding tiny hands as our girls learn how to jump in the waves and holding them in the water; calming their fears of jellyfish (as we calmly move away from the stinging jellies-pretending nothing is wrong).

Diani beach has gorgeous powdery sand.  It's not quite as white as the sand in Boracay, Philippines but the Indian Ocean was a tad warmer than the Pacific.  The seashells were plentiful and perfect for our towering sand castles.