A lazy day at the beach.
We stuck close to the house today. I started the day baking a loaf of bread for lunches for the rest of the week. In hindsight, breakfast time wasn’t the best slot in which to have scheduled this. It’s a bit of a spread-out activity, kneading and rolling and such, and creates a lot of traffic conflict as others are making their morning trips to the coffee pot, pantry, refrigerator, and so forth.
I’d planned to be first awake to get this done and settled before anyone else rose and shone. That’s not how it works in reality. I think everybody (well, the adults) wake up early and snooze until they hear someone else milling in the communal areas. Then they join into what becomes a parade through the kitchen.
I’ll keep this in mind for next time.
The girls started emerging an hour or so after the adults. While they all sleep in the same room, they tend to wake up at different times. I believe Caelynn appeared first this morning, followed by Emmy, with Kinsley trailing along fifteen minutes or half an hour later.
Emmy was still nursing her sunburn from yesterday. She seems to be slightly uncomfortable but mostly fine. I was worried last night because some of my childhood sunburns were so bad that I can still remember them today. I think she’ll shake this one off.
Some of us were again treated to a dolphin show this morning. Not me. I might’ve spotted a fin or two but I’m not confident enough in that to claim it as fact.
We sat on the beach for the first half of the day and didn’t move much at all. My goal was to get that early summer sunburn that acclimates me to the sun and reminds my skin it’s time to start producing melanin again. Mission accomplished! In less than an hour I was burned everywhere–but only a little bit. I’m slightly sore now but it’ll be gone in a day or two and then I’ll be set for summer.
Danny and Emmy headed to the Dollar General down the beach at around noon to pick up another batch of essentials (as I mentioned yesterday, grocery shopping is a daily occurrence on vacation.) Emmy had a $5 budget to buy whatever she wanted. She spent it on a jiggly gel-filled orb/ball thing that kind of floats and kind of doesn’t. I don’t understand the thought process that makes such a thing desirable enough to blow five bucks on, but that’s Emmy’s business and not mine.
While dad and big sister were away, the littles went swimming in the Saltwater Pool. I was treated to five swimming lessons’ worth of “Uncle, watch this!” It was an impressive show and the pièce de résistance was a synchronized backward starfish that only required the tiniest bit of help from dad.
Everyone wrapped up the day with a screening of Moana on the gigantic 80″ living room TV. I stuck around for the first fifteen minutes or so but eventually went my own way. The number of times I’ve already seen Moana is sufficient for my purposes.
AOPA Safety Institute released a new video today, Accident Case Study: Fair Weather Flier, that follows an accident sequence from Gulf Shores International Airport–coincidentally right down the beach from where we are now.
I ended my day with yet another tale of poor aeronautical decision making. Do better, folks.