Day 6 - Castles and Kites

Every beach vacation or vacation in genereal,  has a day where you feel like you need a break.  This was probably that day.  It was Papa and Grandma's last day too.  So for them, they were thinking of the trip home on Thursday morning.  I used the chance to go for a short run and hit the gym.  Jen got a chance to sit in on another conference session.  The kids were playing in the condo for the early part of the morning but by mid day they were ready to head out.  So we walked to the pier and played some skee ball.  While there we had a visit from the Ripley's Aquarium mascot (Sharkey the shark) who gave us about 100 free game tickets towards a prize.  We grabbed an Italian Ice on the pier and walked out to watch the fisherman.  No sharks on lines today!

Once back at our beach spot we decided to take on the challenge the Jordan's presented and build a sand castle.  But Jake wanted to put up the kite since it was a perfect day for it.  So we quickly assembled and it was off up to the sky.  Jill and I then turned to the castle. We don't have as much room as they did but it came out pretty good as Jill started to become our master builder.

While we worked on it into the afternoon, the jelly fish flag went up.  It seems the waves have calmed down quite a bit and the jelly fish are heading in. Jordan was definately not too fond of this. Jake found this as an opportunity to collect them into our buckets. There were all kinds with some having some long tentacles. Hopefully on Thursday they will all be back to sea.

As the evening approached we had 630pm dinner reservations at Landry's Seafood at Broadway at the Beach..  Yes, Jill was able to go and she seemed to enjoy her dinner.  With Aebli monogrammed menus we picked some great dinners.  Jake was a little preoccupied with  some of the activities going on outside so we went out.  As Jen said, sometimes it seemed it was easier when they were littler!!  Jake and I strolled over to the hot sauce shop where you can sample.  Some very good ones indeed!

After dinner, Papa and Grandma headed back to start packing.  Jordan headed back and met with Bonnie's daughters, Emily and Erin to hop in the hot tub.  Jen, Jill, Jake, and I stayed back and we walked around Broadway at the beach  to Klig's Kites to see one of my favorite sites.  He is the owner and stands out front dressed up as a character and sings to people while cracking jokes on everyone.  All along making the fart noises with fart putty stuff.

As we headed back, you know it was another tiring day when Jillian announces "when we get back, I am going right to bed".  She did.

We all said our farewell's to Papa and Grandma as our vacation starts its final days.  We'll see them when we get back and relive some of the adventures.  It was great to have them down here with us.