SNOW in DeFuniak Springs..oh my!!!

Would you believe that last night and this morning it was raining…and according to the weather report it was only suppose to rain…I heard from a friend in Fort Worth, TX that it was snowing there and I just couldn’t believe it…Then I got an email from another friend who asked me if it was snowing…At the time, it wasn’t…Nothing but rain…Then after it stopped raining, we started to see white stuff…Snow flurries…OH MY!!!  Can it be…We grabbed our cameras and started to take photos…We must have pictures of the snow flurries, even if it don’t land and stay…Big flakes too…So now I can tell my friends and family that we had SNOW…

If anyone wants better photos of the snow, go to www.rvkamping.blogspot.com.  My camera isn’t as good as Richard’s camera is…Mine is a little Canon and Richard’s is a bigger better Nikon…Thanks!!!

Brianna’s Visit to Navarre Beach, FL 2.6.10

The weather wasn’t going to be perfect to go to the beaches along the Gulf of Mexico but we needed to take Brianna to a beach to have fun and to fun some seashells…The weather for Saturday, 2.6.10, was windy and cool, about 50* for the high…We put on warm clothes, grabbed a couple of quart zipped baggies, a black permanent marker, a change of clothes, cameras, some snacks, and the soundtrack to The Princess & The Frog and off we headed down Route 87 towards Navarre Beach, Santa Rosa, Florida…

Brianna started heading towards the water…but as you can see, the waters today were very rough…We made sure to tell her to watch out for the water while looking for seashells…She did get to see someone out in the water on their surfboard…On her first outing, she came across a few seashells up along the back edge of where the sand began…

Brianna found her first seashell of the day…She was so excited…

While Brianna and I were looking at the top of the sand line, Poppy called her to come see what he found…Off and running to the spot where Poppy said and Oh my!  lots of seashells…Which ones to pick out and keep?  We tried to tell her to pick out ones that were pretty much in whole pieces but to also look for some unique ones…

As you can see, Bri is looking very intently on what seashell she wants for her collection…We did find a couple of spiral seashells for her jar of shells…In the picture to the right, you will see one spiral shell and some of the ones that Bri found on her own…She liked the brown/white shells a lot…Bri thought they were very pretty…There are 2 more different spiral shells that I spotted for her collection…

Pretend the sand is snow…What are you gonna make???  None other than a sandball…Brianna can show you how…You put your fingers in the sand and grabbed a handful…Then you ball it up and make it in to a sandball…Then you try to toss it at Mommom…LOL

Brianna found a couple of seagull feathers…One big feather and one small feather…What she didn’t crasp was that the seagull didn’t want their feather back…She tried her darndest to give a seagull back their feather by chasing them around the beach…After her running after them, she finally gave up and tossed the big seagull feather away but she kept the small seagull feather…

Once we were done collecting seashells and chasing seagulls, it was time to go and get some lunch…But Brianna wanted to do one more thing before leaving…She wanted to lay down in the sand…To me it looks like she is trying to swim in the sand…In the next picture, she acted like she was going to eat the sand…Yuk!! 

and as a last effort, she posed with her head up…She had a blast…and for the most part there really wasn’t a whole lot of sand to clean off of her before getting in to the truck…This picture says it all…She is having fun!

After leaving Navarre Beach, we headed east towards Okaloosa Island where The Crab Trap was located…We arrived at the parking lot and outside of the building were those portable blow up kids jumpers and slide…We told her we would do it after we ate…We went in to eat and had a good time…Brianna was handed a pail & shovel and inside of it was a coloring/activity paper to do while our food was being cooked…Brianna and I played a game of tic tac toe and then Poppy and her played tic tac toe…I don’t know who was winning but I don’t think Poppy was being a circle…LOL… 

 I think Poppy was making triangles instead of circles…but I think Brianna thought she won…She hasn’t crasped the concept that you have to get 3 in a row..but we had fun…While waiting for our food, fried clams basket and chicken tenders basket, Brianna wanted to show off her necklace that she got to wear…She even had on makeup – eye shadow, blush and lipstick…She looked beautiful…

After eating our lunch/dinner for the day, we headed out to the parking lot…Today there was a Mardi Gras parade and for free, proprietors set up bouncers and slides and jumpers for the kids who came to the restaurants in that building…We got to the slide just in time…The other play things were being packed up…Brianna got her chance to do the slide…At first she wasn’t quite sure of herself to climb the wall of stairs but after a few times, she got it and off she was going…

After the first slide, she was lucky to start heading up the “stairs” to the top all by herself without being knocked around…Brianna came down the slide on her butt, on her belly and on her side…She had such a blast…It was such a treat to see her have so much fun…At one point, she decided to climb up the steps by holding on to the black materialed handrail that is provided…That took a longer time to get up to the top of the slide…

 Can you tell how much fun she is having??? This was her second trip down the slide…The next trip down the slide was one of amazement…Her side slide…

Then Brianna tried the feet first slide after her side slide…Then after this slide, we had to go cause the men came to pack it up…She was disappointed but we told that the men must have to take the slide back to the store…So we headed to Walmart to finish out our day…Along with a trip to McDonald’s for an ice cream…