Since my daughters both love "Finding Nemo", they also love sea turtles. It maybe that the character "Crush" is so loveable, or that they are just fascinating creatures, either way they love them. We decided to take them to a Marine Life Center in Juno Beach. Here they take sick or damaged sea turtles and rehabilate them. It is actually quite a remarkable place. They also go and look on the beach when it is nesting season to make sure that the little baby sea turtles have the best chance possible of survival. Here are some below.
Both girls loved this place. Everything was "look mamma turtles" or "look mamma Nemo". They had an aquariam with Nemo and Dory in it. They loved the babies and the bigger ones.
It was hard to not want to let them jump into the big pool. They just wanted to go swimming with the sea turtles you know. Of course they are probably not as nice as "Crush". It was such a great day though. We bought the girls little stuffed turtles. They love them so much. They have to put diapers on them and everything. Actually it's the little swimmer diapers that the turtles have to wear. I mean come on, we all now you can't go swimming without the little swimmer diapers.
This was after a day at the beach. As you can see Aislynn is getting darker. Of course we lather them up all day long, but it looks like her skin is a darker shade of Ivory. Bailey of course is just plain dark. They were so cute taking their baths together. I love bath time!!
This is our next door neighbors little girl. Her name is Star. They actually adopted her, and then unfortunately she was taken away as the biological father decided he wanted her. So, they get to get her on weekends sometimes. It's a tough situation. It makes me ache for them. They are such wonderful people and Star is such a beautiful little girl. She came over for a couple of hours and played with my girls. Bailey loved her. I think she thought she was like a dog. She waited on her hand and foot, and made sure she had plenty of toys all the time. She was such a good baby.
Okay, so as most of you know, Ernesto was a very wimpy storm. We are greatful that there wasn't any damage. However after all the time you spend putting up storm shutters and getting gas and standing in long lines for water, you wish that maybe there was a little"something". This is the back of our house with the storm shutters up. It was a very hot and humid day, and we spent most of it getting the shutters up.
This was the day of the storm. We decided to go to the beach and just take some pictures of Ernesto and all his glory. As you can see the beach was pretty windy but it was beautiful. It was funny to see people walking around and carrying on with everyday life, even though we were in the middle of a tropical storm turned tropical depression.
Another beach view. You can see the palm trees bending from the wind.
Here was our house the night before. Storm shutters up and parking cars in the garage.
We had storm shutters for all the windows but one, and that was our bedroom window. So we did they plywood thing. Adam got off at 1:00 because his office shut down to let everyone get ready for Ernesto. All things considered everything went fine. We were glad that we were prepared. We have a generator and food and flashlights and everything. It was nice to feel prepared. We may get lucky and not see one for the rest of hurricane season. We will see. I will tell you one thing though, I am so glad to be a member of the church. Our ward was so prepared. The Elders Quorum had a call down list to call everyone to make sure they were prepared, and it felt so nice to be a part of something so awesome. Everyone takes care of each other. Well, we hope our family in the North East will be okay. Ernesto is heading for you. Thank you for all of our friends and family who called to make sure we were okay...
