I'm sunburned!
We arrived home this morning about 1:30am.
Yesterday morning, we got up, enjoyed a nice breakfast (indcluded in the price of our room!) and then drove half a block (LOL!) to the location of the customer Robby had to do the work for. My oldest helped his daddy with the work, and the three younger ones and I walked down the main street of downtown (stopping here and there to look inside stores, and bought a stuffed toy & a couple books in goodwill), then stopped back at the car to check in and change shoes (me) and get a drink and drop off our purchases and lay out our wet clothes from the day before around the trailer edge to dry.
Then we walked down the highway road (one block from the main road - it DID have sidewalks!) and went to Dollar General and I got a souvenir (a Florida keychain) and a package of Mentos (fruit-flavored) to share. We stopped back at the car again to check the clothes (flipped 'em over) and get more water.
Since Robby was still not done, we walked over to Burger King (a block away) and got a chocolate milkshake and some water and I let the kids play on their playplace. After a little while, we went back to the car and found they still weren't done (unfortunately, I had no cell signal there, so I had to keep checking in) so we walked down the other direction (right-angles to where we'd been walking) and found a Family Dollar, where I purchased a box that I intended to use to take home beach souvenirs in, along with some junk food.
We got back, didn't see the guys, so set up chairs out of the back of the van by the trailer and I got out my book (currently reading
Eragon) and as soon as I got comfortable, they were done LOL!
We packed everything up and drove down the coast a ways until we found a beach with real waves (the little one we went to the day before was a bay and the water was quite still) and played in the water for a couple hours. Buried a couple of the kids in sand (pictures will be on my website in a day or two), and played in the waves. We ended up losing two floaties and a shirt, because Timmy didn't put them with our stuff so we were back up at the parking lot before we realized we didn't have them. There were no hermit crabs at this beach, so we didn't bring one home after all.
When we were finished swimming, we changed, got back in the car, and headed home. We are so glad we have a GPS!! We ended up coming home via small middle-of-nowhere roads that had no cell signal. Praise the Lord that we didn't have any problems!
And so, here we are :)
