Saucer Summer Tour Part 11

Sunday, June 17^th, 2012

Today we started the day with breakfast. Then we went to 10am mass at our old church, St. Dominic’s. After church we made a big spaghetti lunch and headed back to the beach at St. Andrew’s state park. The parking lot was FULL so after driving around a bit, I dropped Chalane, the kids, and the gear off and found the last spot as far away as you could get from the boardwalk!! We found a spot to plant the umbrella and enjoy another weather PERFECT day!!

After a few hours we got cleaned up and drove to Captain Anderson’s pier to catch the Dolphin Cruise. Joey was asleep on my lap in less than 5 min. He missed out on feeding the sea gulls Cheetos. They are so trained for the boat they flock right to you and practically grab the Cheetos out of your hand!! The kids were very excited to see the sea gulls catch the Cheetos in mid air. When we got to the deeper water I woke Joey up to move to the front of the boat and watch for the dolphins. We were very lucky tonight and saw 3 different pods. They were all quite large and we saw 50+ different dolphins playing in the water!! After the cruise we headed back for showers, dinner and bed time. Tomorrow will be the first big driving day without Daddy. We are headed to Nashville, TN to spend the night in route to the big stop with friends.

Pictures can bee seen here.

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