Sunday, October 2, 2011

Vacation Time!

We vacationed in Hilton Head again this year. We had such a great time we are already planning our next visit. This was our first trip in the "fall" and it was really nice to have the place to ourselves for the most part. The weather was in the low 80's most of the week and was beautiful.  We stopped at the GA Aquarium on our way down again this year and Hayden loved it.  We split most of our time on the island between the beach and the pool and we went on a Sunset Dolphin Cruise Thur night.  We had the boat to ourselves and it was the best tour of anything we have ever been on.  Our guide was really nice and was great with Hayden.  Since it was a negative low tide we were able to see the dolphins strand feeding several times in the salt marsh.  Strand feeding is where 3 or 4 dolphin work together to run their bait onto the shore and then they jump out into the mud on their side and gobble them up.  This was really amazing and is quite rare to get to see, there was even a boat out there with us with a bunch of fancy cameras capturing the dolphins.  Hayden was very excited to get to go on his first boat ride and got upset everytime we entered a no wake zone because he wanted to the boat to go faster.  What a great week creating new family memories and traditions, we are truly blessed.






 Diving for fish in the baby pool.

 Hayden by the "Jungle Tree"
 The boys flying a kite.  Hayden flew it by himself for quite a while, got distracted picking up a reed and it flew off into a tree.  Jason was able to retrieve it :)



 The turtles in the lagoon at the condo were very hungry, so we fed them some crackers.








Video of the Dolphins