Last Minute Beach Trip

It all started Friday. It was a long day. It rained all day and the kids and I were trapped inside all day. I felt bed that Jackson was so bored he was actually asking me to take him to school, so I told Lee we are going somewhere tomorrow! Well Jackson didn't sleep well last night and then our air conditioner quit working sometime, so it didn't look like it was going to happen. We got the air conditioner fixed, but we couldn't decide where to go. With Morgan, our choices are kind of limited and it was supposed to rain. I wanted to take the kids to Gulf World, but Lee wasn't too keen on the idea. Jackson wanted to go to the beach, but we didn't think that was possible because the two times we've tried to take Morgan, she's thrown down the minute we got onto sand and wouldn't go any further. I was determined to go somewhere, so I packed swimsuits just in case (but I figured we'd just end up at Gulf World) and put the kids in the car. Jackson has really only ever been to the beach once and that was two years ago. When we got into Panama City, we started discussing Saint Andrews state park. Neither one of us had ever been, so we decided to give it a try. To our surprise, Morgan did really well. They have a section that is separated by large rocks called the jetties. We started off here. After a little while Morgan was tired of that, so we walked over to the actual beach side. We walked for awhile on the edge of the water thinking that would be the only thing that Morgan would do. After walking as far as we could, Jackson wasn't ready to go so Lee let Morgan sit down in the waves. Turned out she loved it!! She sat in the waves for about an hour and had the time of her life. It was really nice and we had a great time.

Lee caught this fish with his hand. Jackson thought that was cool but on the way home remarked that he didn't have a good time at the beach and he was sad because he didn't catch a fish like daddy did. Silly kid.
He was fascinated by two older boys who were trying to catch fish with a net. He kept yelling, "hey bud, over here. I see a fish." It was quite funny.

We had not even put Morgan's swimsuit on initially because we didn't think she would cooperate.
Jackson in action.Isn't she cute?
We couldn't keep Jackson out of the rocks.
These huge rocks form a wall creating a sort of kiddie pool area on one side and really deep fishing water on the other.
Like father, like son.
Morgan and Jackson having a blast in the waves.

To top it all off, on the way out of the state park, this doe was standing on the side of the road not more than 10 feet away from the car. We saw three more right at the exit. It was neat.