Clearwater

This was the first family picture of the trip, and the best!  The boys are holding Winter's prosthetic tail. 

Gotta love green screens -- don't we look scared? 

They took a bunch of pictures of the kids posing, and then sold us them on a flash drive shaped like Winter (with a removable tail for the USB side... very clever). 

Who can resist poses like these? 

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It's funny that Josh made this face, because he was just told to stand with his hands together, he had no idea that this was the picture. 

We got to see Winter and Hope up close!

We were there for some of Winter's physical therapy, so we got to see them put her tail on and then watch her swim.  Very cool! 

They boys liked watching all the sea creatures like turtles, sharks, otters, and on and on. 

This is an underwater view of Winter swimming without her tail.

Who can resist a 3' turtle shell? 

Not us!

Luke requested this picture and this pose. 

After the Aquarium we went to Frenchy's for lunch.  (After watching Dolphin Tale later, we saw that Chris Kristofferson's character talks about going to Frenchy's!)

He kept laughing as he fell over and got soaked...he's a trooper!

The rest of the day we just enjoyed the beach. We bought little boogey boards and let the boys try to figure out how to ride them. Luke was so happy just "hitting waves" as he called it, we didn't spend much time on technique. 

Josh loved it! 

This is his typical face, and his reaction to salt water in general. 

We buried the boys..so fun!

We had to wet Josh's sand because the place he was laying was too dry. He was very patient...

Luke decided he'd like to snorkel.  First thing to do is put on flippers and walk 30'. The  penguin walk was awesome..I should have video'd it. 

Lotta sand kicked up.

These two worked hard on a sand castle (and on fiddly farting...)

He's so happy.

We had to hit up Ron John's Surf Shop (which was below a Hooter's...) so Luke posed for us. 

And then we headed home, very tired.  Gramma looks a little rummy, but it was such a sweet moment that I had to snap it. And post it, ha ha ha.