Craig's blog

We had our last “relaxing” day today at Clearwater beach.  We had a lazy breakfast of home made “Egg McMuffins”. 

We drove out the causeway toward Honeymoon State Beach, but stopped at the other end of the causeway to rent paddleboards and a kayak for me.   It was windy and the guy recommended we not try paddleboards, but the girls insisted.  They all were successful, although Jessie unfortunately only went down wind, so I had to go get her and pull her back.  Then I went to an island about a mile away.  It was hard work paddling against the heavy wind, but it was fun none the less.  When I got back, Jessie was successfully paddling the paddleboard upwind!

After the rental we drove back to Clearwater beach, had left overs for lunch and then went out on the beach.  I rented a wave runner from 3-4.  I took turns taking passengers out (everyone but Maddie wanted to ride).  There were pretty high waves as a storm was coming in.  They made me come in 20 minutes early when it started pouring.  It got pretty exciting – thunder and lightning, lots of sirens from emergency vehicles on the streets.  I walked about a mile back to the motorhome and got thoroughly drenched.  Then I drove and picked up the girls who weren’t all that dry either.

We came back to our campground and made shrimp and grits as planned.  They were pretty good, but not as good as in the restaurant where they certainly use more butter and cream.

Tonight was the opening for Despicable Me 2 which is the sequel to the girls’ favorite movie, so after dinner we went to the movies to watch it.

We just got back and are planning to go to Kennedy Space Center tomorrow.  We’ll need to leave early as we have to drive across the state (coast to coast) to get there and it sounds like we’ll want as much time there as possible.