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Um, yeah. This is Christmas Eve in San Diego...

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The birds didn't seem to mind the "cold" at all:

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And of course the family didn't either:

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Despite the fact that the air was about 70F, the water was probably not even 60F. C went right into the water, proving that a 7-year-old boy cannot resist the pull of ocean waves, even at the end of December.

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J was content to stay dry, busying himself with digging a hole until there was water at the bottom to fill his watering can/whale...

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and pouring it out again.

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And then there's the endless entertainment of drawing your own X's in the sand and then digging for treasure:

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Something's washed up on the beach over there, what is it?

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Uh oh...I hope this is not a portent of grief for kiddies everywhere...

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And just to prove that even without snow, kids will find a way to make their own winter right here at the beach by proceeding to trash their boogie boards sledding down the sand berm. Only in San Diego.

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Most of my Christmas knitting gifts won't be given for about a week, so I'll be back after that with a whole slew of FO entries, catching up with my as-yet-undocumented December. Merry Christmas (again)!