Caleb worked the Freeport Fishing Fiesta, and had a hotel room so he invited us to join him. We stopped at Sea Center and enjoyed their Touch Tank.
The girls bounced around so excited about our musty old beach hotel, but after a while they decided they like LaQuintas better.
While Caleb set up for the event, we headed to the beach!! We enjoyed floating with the current in the 'rolly' zone-out past the crashing of the waves.
Caleb met us...
We met other TPWD staff and volunteers at the Pirate Cafe.
4th of July. We headed to the Coastal Expo at the Fiesta. It was amazing for the girls, several hours of loving on critters. Crabs in touch tanks, and tiny crabs in swimming pools, baby alligators, box turtles (Lydia's favorite) and some critters we caught in our pond to go into the fresh water creek exhibit. After a morning of fun, we got McD and headed to the beach.
It was a holiday so they got ice cream from the truck. We floated and made sand castles and rode in a sea kayak. We got stuck in the sand and someone quickly pulled us out but it took forever to get to an exit and back to the hotel.
We swam in the pool and got cleaned up to go to the local firework display. We got our spot and got pizza and cookie!!
Gloria caught a toad and kept him in her glowsticks for a while.
When the fire and banging started big girl needed a cozy lap.
Our first large display and there wasn't too much traffic getting out.
Sunday morning we woke up early and headed to the beach for an hour. the water was a little chilly but we made Gloria into a mermaid.
Back at the hotel, we got cleaned up and had a nice brunch before driving home!
