Typical Day in Bluffton

Back to trying to catch up... Instead of continuing to count the days in Bluffton I am going to show you what a typical day was like since we had several of these. In the morning the kids would get up with Mom and play on the porch either coloring or reading books or having a tea party while the rest of us slept a little longer. Then we got up and had breakfast and packed a picnic lunch and got ready for a day in the boat. We would normally get out between 10 and 11. The kids loved going with Poppa on the golfcart to get ice from a friend's ice machine.

Then we would head to the dock and get on the boat. We would ride on the boat and occasionally Matt or I would wake board or slolem. Then at lunch we would head to our favorite picnic spot.

This was Maddie's favorite spot to ride on the boat - right in the front. I used to do the same thing when I was her age, so it is fun as a Mom to watch her enjoy it, too.

Davis of course enjoyed "driving" the boat. Matt shaved his head for vacation :)

Kallie discovered Animal Crackers in Bluffton and for her riding on the boat equalled eating Animal Crackers.
While we were stopped for a swim break we would let her crawl around in the boat.

This is our favorite picnic spot - in the shade under this bridge. We would anchor under and eat here. It was kind of tricky a couple of times because the tide would go out while we were eating and the guys had to be careful not to get us stuck on oyster beds when we drove out. Quite the adventure a couple of times.

Looking cool in his hat, Daddy's shades and his life jacket.

Kallie also enjoyed eating lots of watermelon on our vacation - we all did actually.

I didn't get any pictures, but Maddie and Davis enjoyed taking turns distributing our lunch.
After lunch we would head to the sandbar if it was out to play in the sand and water.

Kallie had no problems getting dirty.

If the sandbar was not out we would just get out and swim around in the river near the boat.

A couple of weird experiences happened while we were swimming this trip. One time Maddie was near the ladder and screamed saying there was a crab hanging onto the ladder. She was very smart and swimmed away and either Poppa or Daddy hit the crab and it went back down to the bottom. This was very unusual because rarely do you see crabs swimming on the top of the water especially in the deep water. Another time we were swimming and Matt started saying "Owww" and then told us to get back in the boat because something had stung him. It was a jellyfish. When he got out you could see the markings of its tentacles on Matt's arm. This had never happened before in the 31 years I have been going down to Bluffton.

We would go in for a late nap and then either go back out in the boat or just relax because of an afternoon thunderstorm.

Most days ended like this....

And because we spent most of our day in the river we would have late dinners and then the kids would go to bed. The adults would play dominos. My new favorite!