Friday, August 7, 2009

Our Big Summer Vacation - Gulf Shores, AL - Day 4

We started today with a bang!
We parasailed!
It was a first for us! And was a lot of fun! It was SO peaceful up in the air.We had quite a trip to get out to get on to the parasail! I felt like I was in the military for a moment! We road a little bananna boat that was pulled behind a jet ski out to the parasail boat. And the guys running the show were constantly barking, "sit down, hold on, get to the front of the boat, get up, etc.!" And they don't say please or thank you! I was laughing SO hard! It's just not often that you pay people good money to yell at you! And during times that didn't require so much perfect timing, they were really nice guys. They just have a job to do and want to keep everyone safe. We hit the beach again after parasailing. We found the water was infested with Jelly Fish. So, Robbie and his dad started a Jelly Fish catching operation. They would catch them and bring them in to the kids. Then the kids sorted them by size into their buckets.
Why did we do this you might ask? Not sure.
Maybe too much sun this week has affected our ability to make good choices?
Anyway, no one got stung and it kept us entertained while the ocean was off limits to the kids. Here is one of the larger ones we caught! None of us had EVER seen one this large!
Then tonight we went out and went crabbing! We caught about 30 little crabs. Then people around us who were ready to go in started dumping their catches into our bucket. So, we ended up with 1 big one and about 75 little crabs in our bucket. Although Hudson's feet never touched the ground for the entire hour we were out(he was afraid the crabs would get his toes),
we all had a lot of fun!

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