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Only take the necessities:

□ Your swim suit (for obvious reasons)

□ Quarters for the meter

□ Sunscreen for your winter skin

□ Chapstick — your lips can burn, too!

□ Your camera to document evidence of summer (when your winter skin is back)

□ Beach chair for lounging

□ Beach towel for laying out and catching some rays

□ Beach umbrella for shade

□ Sunhat for more shade

□ Sunglasses to fortify your sunhat

□ Sandwiches and fresh fruit (food always tastes better in the sea air)

□ Cash for an afternoon ice cream

□ A good book for some light reading (Crime and Punishment, anyone?)

□ Music! You’re on vacation

□ A sweatshirt in case the sun is also on vacation

□ Ice chest

□ Beer (for your ice chest)

□ Shovel and buckets (for creating the perfect sand castle)

□ Recreational board of your choice (surf, skim, boogie)

□ Volleyball for the sand

□ Bicycle for the boardwalk

□ Firewood for after dark

□ Marshmallows to roast over the firewood

□ Your children (optional)

□ My card — so while you’re catching some waves, I can be the one sweating over your home sale!