I shouldn't be alive

Monday, April 30, 2007
10:22 Fort Wayne, 9:22 Alabama


Sigh, what a hard day. Seriously, I’m just so darn pooped. We went to the pool first thing again this morning, right after breakfast. Katty wanted to try out her new snorkel and fins. Tatum and my mom had the video camera today. That wasn’t good.
We headed to the beach around 11. That’s pretty much what we did all day. Played in the sand, snorkeled- oh, speaking of snorkeling. There wasn’t much to snorkel for but I just dove around with my goggles. I was looking for sand dollars. I love those guys. I did find about five billion little live dudes. They’re everywhere! I found some cool shells and stuff. I went out with my dad for a little while in the morning. Then around 4:30 I went out with my mom because my dad and my sisters had found some dead sand dollars and neat shells. We were out for a while but we needed to leave. I was heading toward shore when I stood up to yell something to my mom. Suddenly (drumroll please), I felt something slither across my foot. I stuck my head down in the water as quick as possible. I saw a flat body and two eyes burying itself in the sand right by my foot. It was a stingray!!!! I’m dead serious! I’ve seen stingrays before and I know what they look like. It was scary. I could’ve died. There’s one of my near death experiences for today.
Ok, back to that morning. The seagulls here are the most annoying thing you’ve ever encountered. They squawk like it’s the end of the world. It was near lunchtime but we weren’t going to go get food for a while. I opened a Ziploc bag full of Sunchips. I was munchin on ‘em when I see a seagull following me. I toss a tiny piece over to him, and right away six more of them appear. I decide to have a little fun and pretend that I’m actually throwing food toward them. Bad idea. Apparently, their squawking is some kinda language because every freaking living bird on that beach started chasing me! I started running. Like really running and their flying after me squawking and chasing me. I’m still holding the chips so I throw the last handful behind me, deterring about four out of the twenty five birds. Since that didn’t work I start running into the water, then realize that they can fly, so water doesn’t really affect them. I finally throw the Ziploc behind me and then they realize that I have no more food for their big mouths. It was terrifying. Dumb birds.
After the beach we all got showers and went to dinner. The restaurant was LuLu’s (the one we wanted to go to Saturday night) and it’s the LuLu Buffet’s restaurant. LuLu Buffet happens to be the sister of Jimmy Buffet, one of our family’s favorite artists. The restaurant was awesome. I had a shrimp sandwich, which was one of the messiest sandwiches I’ve ever eaten, and gumbo and a pina colada. I haven’t had a pina colada in FOREVER and it tasted delicious. My sister’s and mom ordered a seafood platter, a platter that was supposed to feed two. My dad made a mistake ordering and ordered two of the platters so Darby, Tatum, and my mom had a humongous dinner. We still have so much food.
After the ginourmous dinner we shopped in the gift shop for a little bit and my dad bought a t-shirt.
So I hope you guys are happy. I had two life threatening experiences today. And PLEASE COMMENT. Just because you’ve commented once doesn’t mean you’ve filled your quota (*cough cough Ben*).

Smiles!
~Morgan~