Vacation - Day 2

When we woke up this morning it was actually drizzling! We decided it was going to be too cold to take the kids to the beach so we took them to the Seymour Discovery Center. What a find! This is the BEST place for small children. It is very small (like the Lindsay Museum except for sea life!) They have touch pools, an aquarium section and some other exhibits that don't include live sea life. We spent about an hour there and the kids (and me and Clark) learned a lot of new things. We even saw how (some) baby sharks grow inside these seaweed pods! We saw things in the little museum we've never seen in larger aquariums and there were lots of volunteers around to answer every question you may have (or not have). After we finished looking around the center it was still dreary so we took the kids to the Boardwalk to ride the merry go round and play skeet ball. When I was little I remember going to the Boardwalk to play skeet ball! Skeet ball is still a little too hard for them, but they had a good time. I think Daddy threw most of the balls for them, but they tried too. After the Boardwalk the sun started to come up so we picked up lunch from this little Japanese hole in the wall take out (just the perfect lunch! we may do it again tomorrow!), ate in our room and headed down to the beach! Our hotel has a nice beach and it provides shuttle service from our room to the beach so we called for a ride and loaded our beach stuff up and away we went. We spent a couple of hours on the beach, came back to our room to take a bath and decided to call in a food order to Chili's (we were planning to eat there, but no one took a snoozer and Gregory took a header on a rock trying to move out of the way so a shuttle could pass us so we're staying in and resting). Daddy picked up our dinner and we enjoyed it in our room. For dessert I ran across the street to pick up Popsicles for Daddy and the kids. We had planned to stop by Black China Bakery for some vegan cupcakes, but they closed early today so we didn't make it in time. Maybe we'll go there for scones in the morning!