Made IT

 Nolan drove until 11:30 pm last night, I took over then and drove until 3:30 am then Sarah took over until we stopped for breakfast at a Waffle House about a half hour from our destination around 6:00 am. Below is River eating and liking the grits. 

Everyone was hungry and wiped out all of the food on our plates.

As we were getting ready to drive into Sarah and Nolan's condo we saw David walking by. They came in yesterday and spent the night in the hotel which David explained to us was a dump at $200.00 a night. The room was not clean and someone had punched a hole in the wall. He told us Israel was already out on the beach. After parking the car walked across the road to the beach and found Elisabet was also there.

She was showing us some of the shells they found this morning.

The water was too cold for swimming, the waves were huge and the red flags were flying.

 Nolan brought his fishing pole out but did not catch anything. Below River is helping him fish.

Soon we decided to go back to the condo to get our suits on and meet at mom's condo at Island Royale.

That has an indoor hot tub,an outdoor hot tub and a heated indoor/outdoor pool. We all went swimming there for a couple hours. No pictures as I was in the hot tub watching the fun. 

I went back to change into dry clothes and also changed the washer and dryer. Sarah and Nolan's guests had moved out just before we arrived so we were using their condo until we could check in ours which is located just across the street. We checked in at 4:00 pm then went down to the pool area and joined the rest of our group at that hot tub.

This hot tub was nice and big. It was heated well but the pool was not.

The kids were jumping into the cold pool then would come running back to the hot tub. Below Elisabet and Iris had jumped in and swam all the way across.

Zeke was a surprise to us, he loved swimming in that cold pool. He was watching Israel and would copy everything Israel would do.

The sun was out and the day turned really nice and warm. Some of us got quite sunburned.

Below are more kids swimming in the cold pool.

They also spent lots of time in the hot tub.

Around 6:00 pm Nolan and I went to Walmart to pick up some food for our supper plus some food for breakfast and lunch. We won't go out to eat much on this trip and I am thankful there are groceries available even if they cost more than at home.  Speaking of home our guests from last night at the big barn had quite a slumber party that didn't include much slumbering. It was supposed to be a birthday party for 15 twelve year old boys but ended up including those boys and all of their families PLUS. The place was packed and when Anna went in to clean she really had a mess on her hands. They had used every piece of bedding in the barn, had eaten on that so everything had to be washed,. They had an Easter egg hunt in the barn, there was so  many spills sticky stuff on the floor Mark was asked to bring his floor scrubber out. She was able to almost  finish it by the time the next group arrived but still had to keep going back as the first renter had left many items and the battery for the big sectional recliners had disappeared. The second group was quite large but not near so messy. They were all college kids but were on some kind of retreat.