Beach: Part 2

After a couple of beach days, we spent a day on the water on the Sea Dragon, a pirate cruise. Although both boys enjoyed it, Ethan totally got into it and participated in every single activity they offered on the cruise. Before we headed to the marina, we stopped by Jaws to pick up some beach gifts to take home with us.

Then it was time to check in at the marina

They started off bringing all of the kids into a big circle and the "pirates" introduced themselves to the group and told them a little about what they were going to get to do

Then everyone got warmed up with a water gun fight. Ethan jumped right in but Caden took a little to warm up and participated from my lap

The the junior pirates had to clean up their mess and "swab the deck"

After that, they got their pirate beards

And had a sword fight

Cannonball Becca fought Caden while

Ethan took care of the rest of the pirates on board :-)

Once the sword fight ended, the crew found treasure in the ocean and Pirate Jake was able to bring it on board

Becca and Jake checked it out first

Then shared it with the rest of the "crew"

Caden's treasure

Once treasure had been dispersed, what's a pirate party without the Limbo. Notice Ethan decided the easy way was better ;-)

Then you are an official pirate once you have a pirate tattoo

And here is Pirate Ethan

While we were on the cruise, we saw dolphins, Shell Island, and several snorkeling excursions. We also passed by the jetty that we swam and snorkeled on the previous day. As we passed, the Captain ordered the crew to fire the cannon. What a cute adventure!

Once we returned to land, we went back to dress for dinner. We ate at the Saltwater Grill that night and sat right next to their HUGE saltwater aquarium. I can't believe that I didn't take a picture. We spent our dinner playing I Spy with all of the fish in the aquarium. Gotta love dining with kids :-)

We finished dinner later than I had hoped because I had planned to take beach pictures of the boys after eating. Considering my subjects were Ethan and Caden I knew I needed to allow for their silliness in order to get one good picture but we started too late and the sun had already set by the time we got out there :-( Although I tried and the boys had a good time, here are some of my attempts at a decent picture...
Nope...

Not this one...

Or this one, either...

Just plain silly...

The best of the bunch...and unfortunately it's just one child and he's half wet...

Oh, well, we'll try again next year

The next day the boys spent the day swimming in the pool. After swimming, we went to Schooner's to eat and sat in a booth right next to the beach. The boys perfected the art of Tic-Tac-Toe with Daddy.

All trips to the beach end too soon and we were definitely not ready for this one to end but it was time to come home. Before the drive back to Georgia, though, we had one more stop...a quick visit to the farm!