Day 4 and 5 in Seacrest

Our last day in Florida was spent at St. Joseph State Park.  This area (Cape San Blas) has an amazing eco system and was a very laid back with very few people.  There were shells galore!  We had a lot of fun collecting them in our sand bucket.  All of the big curly shells had hermit crabs in them.  I was impressed that Serif actually picked some of them up to look inside.  

There was a family down the beach from us and the mom was incredibly intelligent about this area and all the sea creature around. She was calling out all of these different names of sea creatures her kids were catching and we couldn't help but walk down and introduce ourselves to see what all of these things were.   This looks like a stingray but it's really a horseshoe crab.  She flipped it over to let us see underneath and it was quite amazing.  Look at all the legs!  

This slug was pretty neat to watch too.  He hung around for a little while.  It even latched on to Jeff's leg for a little bit.  He was amazing to watch swim.  He was so graceful.

We always have to get this family shot.

More underwater shots of the boy.  Jeff said he almost left this camera at home, but we're so glad he didn't.  We never would've expected to see him do all of this much less capture it on camera!  By the end of this trip, he was actually scaring me a bit with his bravery and constant diving under water.  He even yelled at me a couple of times because I was helping him up when he wanted to do it himself.

Zonked out at dinner time . . . again.  We had a tough time fitting in nap time during this vacation.  We were all so exhausted every night from the long filled days.  This particular night, we were getting Serif in the carseat after dinner and he couldn't stay awake for anything.  He had a mouth full of food and we kept trying to wake him up enough to finish chewing.  We finally got him to spit it out (most of it).  It's like he was drugged or something.  He just could NOT wake up.  Poor guy.

Back at the airport and ready to go home!

Making snow angels on the carpet as we wait for the plane to arrive.

What a cute traveler.

Waiting patiently with Sher-Kahn.

Serif wanted these sea stars so bad when we saw them at the cabana market.  In effort to not give in to every request he made, we didn't buy them.  We felt so bad though because he was almost in tears over the white one (below).  He said, "But this is my most favorite one ever!"  I had to go back and get it, but we hid them in his suitcase and let him discover them when we got home.  He was SO excited!

What a great trip.  We can't wait until our next one now!