Jekyll Island

I will post a pic from my phone shortly, but for those of you who are interested (Hi Mom!) here's the narative.

Lucy and I drove down to Jekyll Island on Friday to meet up with friends.  It was a really long car ride but we made it with the help of lots of snacks and a DVD player.  We went straight to the water park Summer Waves when we got there to meet up with Danielle and Haden and Mary and her little girl Bailey.

Lucy had never met Bailey before, but it was love at first sight.  It's no secret that Lucy loves older girls and Bailey was no exception.  She wanted to be just like her. 

Saturday was Tri-Day.  Danielle and I woke up at the crack of dawn leaving Mary with all three kids (Saint Mary) to go fling ourselves into the murky salty ocean waters.  The swim was excruciately difficult for me, the bike was flat and fast and the run was hot.

After the race we learned about sea turtles and watched a rehabilitated loggerhead be released into the ocean.  I hope she has better luck with her swim than I did with mine.

Jekyll was beautiful and full of interesting ocean creatures.  We found hermit crabs, sand dollars, conch shells with snails still living in them, blue crabs, jelly fish, horseshoe crabs, and I'm sure other stuff that I'm forgetting.  Driftwood beach was beautiful and the kids liked climbing all over the fallen trees.  I'm so glad we wend, I'm super glad we survived the Tri and I can't wait to go again.