Fish to Austin: where's Grandma?

Today's adventures will take us 30 minutes off the coast to the White Reef in the underwater world of John Pennekamp State Park.


First we head out down one of the many canals. Time to suit up and get in the water "boys".  Grandma is not sure she wants to join us because it's a little choppy and by the time we got to the reef she was a little seasick..


Once suited up, Austin was the first one in the water. He had his under water camera and started shooting pictures.


Bill was in shortly after and headed to the reef where they saw lots of fishies!  They really enjoyed the reef that was only 5 feet deep in some spots.


Here fishie, fishie.  Where's Grandma? This is cool and lots to see.


Here comes Grandpa - wow, lots of fish and beautiful coral everywhere. Hey, that's not Grandma!

Here's Grandma on deck getting a little sea sick while sunbathing with another "wus". Maybe Grandma will snorkel with us in Hawaii in July?


After our sea outing we came back for showers and Austin wanted to relax from all his adventures so we let him.  For dinner Austin decided he wanted to go to a 'legit restaurant' so we went off looking.  I knew of a good possibility down the street but when we got there the cars were overflowing out of the parking lot - oh yea, St Patricks day - so we kept looking.  Austin said we should go to Mrs. Mac's again but we were surprised to find it closed.  Maybe Mrs. Mac doesn't open on Sunday - good for Mrs Mac.  We ended up at Subway continuing our gourmet eating.

Tomorrow we are heading home in the late afternoon. To finish our adventures, we are planning a visit to the Alligator farm in the morning.  This has been a great trip and we have enjoyed having Austin to ourselves with no other kids around.  He has been great and nice to all.  We have also enjoyed seeing and doing some things we have not seen and done before.

We plan to send out a final blog tomorrow or Monday after the Alligator farm and flight home.

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