This week has been so completely awesome! Tuesday morning we went out on a big sail boat. We saw so many dolphins! After that we went to the Rockport Aquarium and came back to the church and served at Community Table. Community Table is an event hosted by a different church in the Rockport community every Tuesday. It is a free meal served to whoever wants to show up and eat. It was so unbelievably amazing to get to see all the different people we served. After that we went to the Rockport Aquatic Center for a night swim. Anna and Lorrell went on the high dive. Lorrell slipped and fell while trying to do a toe touch while Anna did a flip but also a belly flop. :(
Wednesday Megan and Rick took us out to Mustang Island State Park for the day. We had so much fun on the boogie boards that they had for us. While eating lunch we decided to feed the seagulls. It went...interestingly. Mary ended up getting attacked by the gulls while Megan and Anna went running through them. By the end of the day we were all a bit sunburned and tired!
All week Megan and Rick had been building up this "big surprise" that they had for us for Wednesday night. Turns out they took us out to eat at the Big Fisherman. The food was SO good! After that we came back to the church watched a sailing video that Lori made for us from Monday when we sailed the little sail boats with Megan's dad, played card games, watched Mamma Mia and just had a great time getting to hang out together.
Thursday morning was sad because we had
to say good bye to Rick (Nick Sheridan). Nobody really wanted to, but he had to get off of "vacation" and go back to the "real camp". After that we went fishing. Alot of us had bites (not to mention had our bait stolen) but Anna caught the first fish of the day. She caught a black drum as well as spotted trout and some big reds. Alexa caught a croaker, while Mary caught a dogfish. Commonly called "ugly." Of course while she wasn't paying any attention Lorrell caught a perch. However Bryce topped us all! We couldn't even get it out of the water, but she caught what we estimate to be a 3 foot alligator gar! It was unbelievable!
That afternoon we drove over to Corpus Christi to go to the Texas State Aquarium. We got to see the dolphin training show. It was really cool! Lorrell and Anna watched from up above while everyone else watched from the underwater view. It was really cool to see the otters and pet the stingrays. We even got to see a bald eagle! When we were about to leave we saw a guy dressed up as a turtle, so of course, we had to go take a picture with him, but our camp picture was way better because we got to take it outside on the whale's tail.
Later that evening we had dinner and then went over to the Rockport Beach. Everyone was disappointed at how shallow it was, but Anna and Lorrell went out far enough to where the water was almost to our shoulders. Once we swam a while, Megan made a fire in the BBQ pit and we had s'mores. They were delicious!
And finally, alas, it was our last day. Friday, we hung out at Port Aransas. The waves weren't as big as they were Tuesday but we still had an awesome time! We rode our boogie boards, body surfed, played beach volleyball (which wasn't too bad of a fail), and just had fun hanging out together on our last day.
Friday night we went to the Fulton Mansion, saw the windmill (a Rockport MUST), and had TONS of fun! :)
We really enjoyed our LID 1 year but we are also really sad to see it go. We can not wait for next summer to get to see each other again and remember all the fun memories we created this year!
-Beach Campers
