BEACH!!!

This summer has been filled with adventures which will take me many posts to tell about, but my most recent adventure was a trip to the beach with Laura Mitchell, her mom, her grandparents, and Nana Gay! :) We got to spend a week in Gulf Shores, AL. We layed out a LOT, got a little bit of sunburn (hehe), played in the ocean, and shopped. We had a great time and it was a good end to the summer!

Funny Story: Laura and I spent the first day laying out a little bit, but mostly we swam in the ocean. The water was really clear and the waves weren't too big so we got a raft and layed across it sideways and mostly just talked and lounged around. A couple of times we saw some pretty good sized fish jump up out of the water a couple yards away from us. We thought it was cool and talked about it for a minute, and then went back to our other random conversations. A few minutes later I noticed this weird feeling like something was brushing across my leg...and then I felt it again...and again...Laura and I turned and looked at each other at the same time and then looked down in the water (it really was like something from a movie. haha) and saw that we were surrounded by HUNDREDS of little fish!! I'm not sure if you would even clasify them as fish. They were more like minnows...but anyway, they weren't doing anything to us but it felt like a bunch of little fingers poking us all over. So we proceeded to run (as well as you can in the ocean) back to the beach and wait for them to pass by. They eventually left so we returned to our position on the raft. We talked about it for a little bit and decided they were probably smart fish (because fish swim in schools!! haha) and were swimming away from the big fish and they just figured it would be safe by us because the big fish would be afraid of the humans. Yes, in our minds fish have just as detailed thoughts as humans! :) Over the course of the day this happened a couple more times and we just got used to it. We would wait it out and then go back out. When it was time for dinner we went back up to the condo to shower and get ready to go out to eat. Laura took her shower and then I went to take mine, and when I did I had a little suprise in my swimsuit! Not one....or two.....but THREE little dead minnows fell out of my swimsuit!!! So gross!! lol. I quickly called Laura in to look and then Miss Patsy took a picture of me holding my fish! haha. So what's the moral to this story, you ask?........Fishing poles aren't actually necessary for fishing! :) hehe.

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