I arrived in Ormond Beach Saturday night - er - Sunday morning, with quite the head cold/sinus infection. So my first couple days of vacation were just south of miserable. But it left me to myself in the room and that meant a lot of reading, so I can't complain.
Today, praise the Lord, I was feeling fabulous. It got up to the mid-80's so I took my 5-yr-old son out to the beach to teach him body surfing.
I was about 11 years old and swimming near the pier at Myrtle Beach when I first witnessed body surfing. I swam over to the guy doing it, asked him what he was doing and if he could teach me how. He did and I've been doing it for twenty years or so now.
The waves were 3 to 4 feet high. I kept my son in waist-deep water (for him) and pretty much spent the day "dolphin popping," which involves diving into the wave as it caps and letting the force propel you to the top and drive you to the shore. Great fun.
He had a blast and dubbed us "Aquaman" and "Aqualad."