Fishing again

Here are more pictures from our fishing trip the other night. In the car on the way home Conrad said, "I'm going to have to start liking fish so that when that's all we have, I have something to eat." Yup, that and the 7 bags of tortilla chips we have stowed.

 

 

Old fashioned ice cream parlor

 

We went to Jaxson's, which has been voted the best ice cream in the Miami area. We got a ginormous hot fudge banana split. It came with 3 grapefruit sized scoops of homemade ice cream, hot fudge, and whipped cream. Also there were some bananas in there. So it is healthy (just kidding). All for $8.25. They have something called the kitchen sink (minimum four people) that actually comes in a sink and has three scoops of ice cream per person.

 

If you're ever here, the best burgers in South Florida are in Ft. Lauderdale.

 



 

 

 

 

Movie Night

Not movie night.

Conrad and Mark went to movie afternoon on another kid boat in the harbor. They saw "Megamind" again and had popcorn. The kids on that boat are 11 and 14 so they are a little older but everyone had a great time playing tag and racing on the dock afterwards.

Spring comes early to Florida. The lizards are doing funny dances. There were many flying termites the other day (we had to close up our boat while they were out so they didn't get in and eat our wood).

Fishing and catching (!)

Conrad and Mark went fishing with their new nets and Conrad caught this fish. Not bad for his first time out. He almost caught a crab too but it was too wily. Mom and Dad were very surprised.

Conrad's first blog post

This is a blog post by Conrad, who is six, about our trip to the Miami Metro Zoo. He typed it and took some of the animal pictures himself.





Yesterday we went to the zoo. After lunch me and my brother climbed the giant rock and jumped off. It was fun. My brother said it was scary. I climbed the high part. There is even a little cave.



It was weird. The cranes legs bend forward. [Saddle bill crane.]



The zoo was fun now it was time to go.

Treasure hunting with friends

Our friends who live nearby came to visit and introduced us to geocaching. We had heard about it but had never tried it before.  We had so much fun. We took the dinghy to the jungle-park across the way and found a cache with a travel bug that we will drop off in the Bahamas. Then we found two more really creative caches along the river. We look forward to finding more as we sail around.

Pet spiders

 

We are not buying any pets right now because we are not sure what the various customs regulations will be for bringing animals into other countries. So the boys are making due with natural pets. They have captured two pet spiders named "Spidey" and "Web." The two ginormous ones in the picture are not the ones in their jar, thank goodness. They have been capturing ants to feed their pet spiders and have been researching the various types of spiders and their characteristics. Life aboard our boat is not for the squeamish.