Travel Week #22 Year #2 (11/28-12/04) Pensacola, FL
Online shopping, explore the campground, Christmas decorating, and frost advisory.
Long distance birthday celebration for Togepi.
Broken toilet!
Swimming pool.
Online appointments and Perdido Key beach (with squeaky sand and jumping rays!).
Routine lab work, shopping and errands, and more swimming pool.
Meeting up with an old high school friend and dolphin watch/sunset boat tour.
All set up in our new site for the next three weeks.
Again?! We go south to stay warm and we get a frost warning!
There was a small beach area on the riverfront at the private marina for our campground.
Every day there were several of these very large barges that were pushed back and forth on the river next to our campground.
Christmas decorations from Grandma B.
Zucchini cake for Lucario’s birthday.
The pedal for our toilet broke off! PsyDoug was able to kind of get it back on enough for the grown ups to use it for the next several days while he figured out repairs.
Kids enjoyed swimming while Mom stayed bundled up in her chair on the left side.
Florida pool time with palm trees in the background. You can also see the bridge next to the campground.
Our day out at Perdido Key Beach.
Everyone enjoyed playing at the beach. It was just warm enough to play in the surf but not really go in all the way. ChimSta still needs to cover up.
Just above ChimSta’s foot, you can see a little bird that kept coming close looking for food.
Selfie time 🙂
A low flying plane. It was pretty big.
The tide was getting higher. The areas the kids were playing in didn’t get wet when they first started, but the water was getting pretty close by the time we were ready to leave.
A big heron flew in and landed right in the middle of our paly area. Just stood there for a while watching us before it flew away.
Castle #1
Castle #2
Getting ready to head home from Perdido Key Beach.
Very pretty sunset
Pink sunset clouds over the colorful townhouses.
Our little tree lived behind the ladder next to the kitchen cabinet this year. We added a few more decorations as we got closer to Christmas.
Picture Sequence #1 – Happy Santa…
Picture Sequence #2 – Confused Santa (Sam said he wanted a pet otter for Christmas)
Picture Sequence #3 – Back to Professional Happy Santa
Some fishermen had just come in with their catch for the day and let Munchlax pick one up. He thought they were pretty gross.
We spontaneously decided to go on a glass bottom boat tour.
The seagulls were everywhere! My friend’s wife warned us not to feed the birds because they would just swarm and make a mess. She works at a resort and does not have good experiences with the birds.
Beautiful blue water.
I got to meet up with one of my classmates from high school. He has recently retired from the Navy as a diver.
We are technically in the Gulf while on our boat tour. Looking back at the bridge and skyline for Destin, FL.
Down below in the glass bottom boat. There are windows on the sides that you are supposed to be able to see out of. The water was too cloudy this time of year, so we didn’t see anything from there.
DestinEevee looking down from the top deck to Mom, Munchlax, and Squirtle on the lower deck.
We got to spot several dolphins on our boat tour. The locals do not like dolphins because they scare away the fish.
The captain let the kids each stear the boat a little. He was a nice Christian man that even gave a short prayer when the tour was over. He also invited the kids to come back the next day for a free boat ride, but we couldn’t make it.
One dolphin swam right under the boat!
