Friendly Shores

Beautiful sunrises this week, partly because of the clouds heavy with rain, each one passing by quickly.  The winds have been high, and as you can see above, the tide and waves have been high as well - at least in the morning.  Later on, around noon or so, today's temperatures and weather were ideal for heading out to the beach.

Here's Madison with her grandparents along the shores, which you can see have calmed down quite a bit.  We had a great time walking along and collecting shells, running barefoot through the sand and sea foam.  The others went back to the condo, but Daddy and Madison were ready to start building again!

Here we are, working on our latest sand castle, and a big ditch filled with water as well.  There's something amazingly therapeutic about building sand castles, adding new towers and piling up sand upon sand.  We were out there a really long time, in fact.

But all good things must come to an end, and we getting hungry anyway.  So we returned to the condo for lunch, and then some games like Go Fish and Old Maid.  We also did some decorating for Thanksgiving too.  Before we left, Mommy and Daddy got some turkey bits to add to a pumpkin, which we just so happened to have with us as well.  The end result was something Madison made, which turned out nice:

Afterwards, we went out for a surprise:  a trip to Friendly's.  This has become mandatory for Madison when it comes to going to Satellite Beach.  There's a Friendly's restaurant just a few miles south of here, and so once again we returned - the third time now - to get ice cream for everyone.

We returned home and watched the Peanuts Thanksgiving special, both of them, and did some reading as well.  Daddy has been reading a Never Girls book this week, along with the monthly devotional.  And soon enough, it was time for bed, although we did go out on the balcony one last time to overlook the ocean, watching the beautiful full moon hover over it, illuminating the waves brightly below.  Going in to tomorrow, we've certainly got so much to be thankful for.