Summer Vacation at the Beach

This year we rented a vacation house on Balboa Island. It was beautiful and a ton of fun. We shopped at Fashion Island, South Coast Plaza, and down Main Street on Balboa Island. We body surfed in the ocean. Enjoyed the ocean breeze...in fact we never turned on air conditioning, just opened the windows. Dined with family and friends. Enjoyed time with my parents before they left again. (Hawaii didn't get enough of them so they asked them to come back from August to December) It was really relaxing until Derek had to throw a wrench into the situation....He was body surfing, a wave picked him up, threw him down on his right foot, but his foot wasn't solid on the ground and well he broke his ankle. So there we were at the beach with no cell phones (long story), the kids at the house (our only morning alone), my parents on the way to the beach house (to visit), and Derek has a broken ankle. They had a Jr. Lifeguard event going on so he didn't want to let the Lifeguards know what was going on. Derek stood up from the wipe out of the wave, walked out of the ocean, down the beach (informing me on the way that he wanted to walk until the shock wore off) and then sat down by a parking lot. (about the length of a football field) I was able to use the Lifeguard stations phone without telling them about Derek. My dad came and picked us up. We went back to the house, Derek showered, and then we went to Urgent Care. On the bright side he broke it on Thursday and we left Saturday morning. He was able to rest a few days before he went right back to work.