Thursday, July 9, 2009

A Week at the Beach - Dauphin Island

Last week the kids and I went and spent the week on Dauphin Island with my Aunt Jamie and Clara. It was a nice relaxed week. The kids had fun swimming in the ocean and riding the waves. Ella learned to swim while we were there (there is a video below) and Connor and Clara caught about 300 fish with their nets. We went down to the west end of the island to their public beach one day so Connor and Clara could use their boogie boards and hit the waves...Ella picked that day to have a complete meltdown on the beach and ended up falling asleep in the sand...she layed there for almost an hour and a half and slept. Thankfully the nap did a great deal to improve her mood.

The last day we were there we went to the Estuarium. Connor took a field trip there last October and he wanted to go back. He's been to Sea World and the Atlanta aquarium in the past year and he likes the Dauphin Island Estuarium the best...go figure. At least it's closer and cheaper ($3.00!) than the other two.



1 comment:

Jamie said...

I hope they didn't "disturb" the balance of the ecosystem with all those fish they caught! Good thing you made them dump them back before they started dying. At least we weren't in the salt marshes reeking havoc!