excellence in S's and Zs!
Today we went parasailing for the first time ever! It. Was. AWESOME.
Look, I duct taped my magnetic sunglass attachment to my glasses. Dork-0.
This kid never even thought to be afraid of parasailing!
Launch
Feet. High, high above the water.
The view. OH, the water was so gorgeous!
Squish Squash.
The Boogedy, 2 minutes after coming ashore….”Now what can we do?”
A handmade sign, appearing quite a distance before the “official” sign.
The rock piles at this beach.
Also along that stretch of shore is an amazing driftwood structure. A multi-room layout, with dry-laid rock slab walls and firepits. It was beautiful, and I thought at once of my friends Caleb and Janeen, our wonderful roommates from Utah, and how they might like to come live in this large, airy house.
The funny thing is, I completely failed to see this structure the first time we went here. Even though I used some of the driftwood to steady myself on the rocks. I thought it was just some dead trees.
And just look at this adorable, grumpy-wumpy Teddy Bear, clutching his…dying bee?! Aack!
Zach took the photo above, as I was too wigged out by the multiple beady button eyes. I imagined the thing growling to protect its prey. Zach took the time later to google Florida spiders, and determined that this is the jumping variety. Did you ever have post traumatic stress from something that Could have happened?! *shudder*
This is me and the Boogedy throwing fish food into the shark enclosure at the aquarium. The fishies are going crazy for pellets, while the shark slowly circles at the bottom, hoping someone will start dying or at least bleeding sometime soon.
On Saturday I noticed that the town was bursting with people in khaki shorts and white t-shirts, so we went to gawk at the immense cruise ship at the dock. Those ropes are the diameter of my calves. It is a trick of photography that may make you think my legs are bigger than the Boogedy’s head.
P.S. I am amazed at how many restaurants and bars invite you to bring your pet. Here is the Chibberty, salivating at the BBQ smokehouse at the Geiger Key Marina. He had quite a bit of pulled pork.
A few evenings ago, we picked the Boogedy up early from school and went for a sunset trip on the glass bottom boat.
This kid is definitely mine, as he had no problem eating chips and salsa while sitting backwards on the prow of the catamaran.
Yes, he’s dressed up in a pirate costume, and he was very upset when he saw that it was a catamaran and not a schooner. Really sad that it was not a pirate ship.
As sunset approached, it became pretty chilly and breezy, and the Boogedy kept trying to climb under Zach’s shirt. In this photo Zach is threatening to climb under HIS shirt.
We saw a coral garden, sea sponges, and a huge sea turtle in a swarm of sycophantic remoras. I managed not to photograph any of those things.
The sunset was beautiful, but I didn’t see the fabled green flash.
The lights of the waterfront.
And a tired little boy who needed to be carried.
I hadn’t really considered how LOUD the airboat would be. Deafening even with cotton balls in the ears. No conversation possible.
There were beautiful banana trees in the “River of Grass”
And the most gorgeous, gigantic grasshopper. I wanted to keep him for a pet!
Afterwards we ate fried frog legs and gator tail bites. Undelicious.
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