Clearwater Beach

Duty calls!!  I had another work conference to go to in September and fortunately the kids had the same week of school off, so we all went to Clearwater Beach, Florida for vacation.  Unfortunately, it rained A LOT!!  So we tried to make the best of it and go to indoor sites while it rained and then go to the beach when it was not stormy.

Turns out Winter the dolphin who is the subject of "Dolphin Tale" the movie is in Clearwater Beach at the aquarium down the street from our hotel, so we went there.  You could play with stingrays....as you see Austin doing below......very slick little guys!!

 

While on the beach, one of Eric's favorite past times is to feed birds....he seems to have "trained" some birds while we were there and could get them to eat out of his hand and he would then pick them up and hold them.....odd bird (decide for yourself who I am referring to ...)

Kids LOVING the water....playing with the sand

Fortunately, there was a pretty large playground area beside our hotel so we went there and played a few times.......Ansley conquering the mountain!

More later.......