An Adventuresome Day

"Mama, where's we goin'"  

"On an Adventure!"

But, before we could even leave the driveway, Daddy spotted the turkeys and had to wait and see if they came closer...

We eventually made it out of town and found ourselves at Fort Clinch!!!

Fort Clinch transports you back to 1864... complete with a period flag (this fort, at the time, was Union controlled)!

There was one soldier "on duty"... he took us on a tour of some rooms (that were closed unless he was with you, so we lucked out)... this room had the jail and some beds.

Berry posed on a hay filled mattress for Daddy :)

This was an enlisted men's bunk room/rec room!

We got to see the bakery!

And the latrine :p

Group shot!!!  This is our new favoritest fort!

By the time we had toured everything, we needed food... and playtime (because running all over the fort was not enough)!

And then, we went on our first geocaching adventure!  It's this treasure hunt... you are given GPS coordinates and then you have to find the "chest"...

We got close, and then TW found the actual box.  Here are the kids posing...

... and then Berry fell off the edge of this bridge... headed towards the "alligator infested" water.  She managed to hang on with her legs and Daddy saved her (I laughed)... so this is the after picture (she was unharmed, just scared)!!!

Finally, we headed to the beach (for the first time since moving to this side of the state!).  I thought, since it was late, that we would be out of the van for about 10 minutes, so we didn't change into swim suits (geocaching took longer than anticipated).  Smaug went straight towards the water and loved it!  Then a wave came and "ate" his feet...

... so he hid for about 5 minutes.

And then we found a little tide pool and it was downhill from there.

On the way back to the van, Berry fell (all the way this time) off the boardwalk and right into a prickle bush.  So, the clothes stripping happened before we got to the van...

... the kids rode home in underwear (fortunately I had spares for everyone except TW who wore a pair of Mr. E's, it looked like a speedo)... and even TW, who never takes naps, took a nap :)

In Other News:  J has yet to get that pig.