I am a hero!

Tuesday, May 01, 2007
8:23 Fort Wayne, 7:23 Alabama



Okidoke, another “laze around and sit on our butts day”, along with a little action, of course. We headed to the pool after breakfast and met this girl there named Sara. She was absolutely hysterical. I’m guessing she was around nine. Her accent made her all the more funny. She had three older brothers and you could obviously tell they teased the living daylights out of her.
Around noon we headed for a short drive down the coast to Fort Morgan (funny huh?). It was one of the last forts to fall to the Yankee’s during the civil war. It’s at the tip where Mobil Bay and the Gulf of Mexico meet and Mobil Bay was the only outsource of trade for the blockade runners during that time. It was really interesting.
There was a beach right next to the fort so we decided to go over. The beach was diffidently not a public beach. There was trash in numerous places but there was also a lot of wildlife. We saw about a billion of dead crabs, three of them are huge. Tatum buried the big ones. We also saw a dead jellyfish. There was a dip in the sand and it looked like a making of a tide pool. There were two little fishes stuck in there, perfect bait for the stupid seagulls. They were adorable, about the size of your middle finger. I had to get them out, and I did quite easily. And yes, with my bare hands (ok, with the help of a shell). I was very proud of myself, that's three lives I've saved this trip.
We found thousands of hermit crabs and Katty was fascinated with those. We decided to walk down to a fishing pier about half a mile away. There was a heron (one of my mom’s favorite birds) that was sitting on one of the posts. We got super duper close. The pier was pretty boring but just as we were leaving I hear one of the fisherman mutter something to his other friends. He said something about dolphins. I look behind me and see that out a long ways away in the middle of the ocean were a whole school of dolphins! If you guys don’t know, those guys are my favorite animals of all time. We watched them forever. Finally, they started heading away and we started to walk the long way back to the towels. I saw them pretty close to the beach, about a 75 away. I begged to go out and see them, so Darby, Tatum, Dad, and I started swimming out. Unfortunately, they swim darn fast! They went out to deep and it’d be impossible to catch ‘em. In a manner of speaking, we were swimming with the dolphins. The dolphins and us were in the same body of water, at the same time, in a relatively close vicinity. So I swam with the dolphins!
Ok, now its 9:30 your guys’ time. I took a break to watch American Idol and eat dinner- hamburgers, succotash, burnt fried potatoes! Ok. I’m heading to bed now. You know what I’m gonna say- COMMENT AND THEN YOU’LL TRULY KNOW THAT ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES!

SMILES!
~Morgan~