We spent a week, June 21 - 18, (click here for Photos) with the Grandchildren (all seven… 5 (Morgan, Katie, Mary Alison, Molly and Emma) in our motor home and 2 (Loran and Austin) with their parents…Randy and Leah) at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park/Gregory E. Moore RV Resort in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. This resort was formerly called Emerald Coast RV Resort. It's the nicest State Park we've ever stayed in and has the highest rating possible from Trailer Life & Woodalls, placing it in the top 1% of the nation. It has full hookups (including cable) and 3 1/2 miles of pristine white quartz sandy beach with over 1,643 acres of unique habitats, including coastal dune lakes, cypress domes, and wet prairies. In some of my pictures, you will see the squirrel (photos) that visited with Leah and me one day.
This week is what our retired friends would call a "working vacation" as we needed someone almost full time for KP duty and a full time lifeguard/counselor (ours was 67 years old… would you trust your grandchildren with him?) and a part-time chauffer. However, Morgan did drive Ralph to get ice everyday...she'll be a licensed driver in September!!!
After taking 5 bikes, we didn't have room for ours... Ralph and I had to ride the tram to and from the beach, which is really a great way to go... you just have to schedule your arrivals and departures because the tram runs hourly on the hour.
We celebrated Mary Alison's 13th birthday (Photos) on June 26…by going to McGuire's in Destin (Photos) . This place had $1.00 bill all over the walls and ceiling… of course everyone had to autograph one and staple it to the wall. An added surprise was two vintage WWII planes doing some stunts over the coastline when we came out. Emma is the photographer of the great airplane picture.
Our food for the week was great and we had an abundance of seafood (shrimp almost every night…either boiled or scampi). Randy and Austin along with Leah's cousin and son went deep sea fishing and caught about 40 pound of King Mackerel, which Randy grilled one night. It was very good.
Jellyfish were rampant… and all the kids got stung, some more than once. The big one that stung Katie will sting no more as she turned around and caught it in her net (Photos). After everyone looked at it without touching, she buried it in a sand dune. I believe the three youngest (Austin, Emma and Molly) could look for and catch critters for an entire week and never get tired. They would great protegees for Jim and Jan (Lillico) to teach "Lobster-ing" and I know they could "stay the course" until they caught their limit each day.
Check back in early August for posts from our Westward Ho Trip with Joan and Barth...
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