Florida 2009 #4

This morning I was up at about 7:15 a.m. I was watching the news on television, when all of a sudden, I was pleasantly surprised by being awoken by my niece Sarah. Of course it was time to go to the beach. So Sarah, Becca, Hannah, Grandma, and I all got ready. We wanted to make sure that we didn’t wake up my brother and sister-in-law, as they had had a long day of traveling yesterday.

We walked along the beach quite a ways. We did a lot of searching around for shells, and had a nice time enjoying walking along the shore. We were passed by a couple of overly ambitious runners, who looked extremely uncomfortable running along the beach. Perhaps it was that they felt like they were cast members of “Baywatch”. I mean, on television, it looks so easy to run along the beach. From the looks of their strained running, it looked more like death watch. No matter how much they tried to look like they were enjoying themselves, their pained faces, strained expressions, and overheated reddish-tinted skin said otherwise.

Anyhow, we were greeted once again by Buddy the Labrador Retriever puppy (the one I mentioned yesterday who had the affinity for taking his master for a walk instead of the other way around). After greeting us, his master called him back. Immediately, Buddy turned on his heel, and went back to his master. Sarah immediately said, “Dory would never do that. I don’t think we could teach her to do that.” It just struck me funny, as I know for certain that my two hounds upon seeing the beach and especially the ultra-light plane that flew overhead, would be at St. George Island in about 4 seconds flat.

I had some awesome quality time with my niece, Hannah, who has quite an imagination, and was building houses in the sand with chimneys that were about 30 feet tall. She then started telling me (by drawing) how Santa Claus was stuck in this chimney (and at thirty feet with his girth, I’m not surprised), and that Mrs. Claus had to push him out. It was adorable.

I wish I still had that kind of imagination!