Family Trip? Or Family a Trip?

It's late on Monday and we're all still kicking! It's my regular Florida vacation with Ratac but we added a few folks.

R and I were planning and he suggested that we bring my mother with us since she would have been recovered from her knee surgery for several months. She was all for it.

Later my cousin CaliBornAndRaised messaged me to find out when we were coming down - since she only lives 15 miles from where we stay. Once she knew the dates, she coordinated with her sister - theVoiceOfReason - and they ended up renting the condominium next door to ours. So she has been able to bring my Mom's sister - GiftedGabber - with them. Along the way, my cousin- ManAboutTown - called to see if he could come along. So we are all here - all 7 of us taking FL by storm! 

It's great because GiftedGabber is 85 now and will be 86 in November, Lord willing and my mom is 82 now. They and my uncle, LadiesMan - are the only kids left in a family of 11 kids. My uncle couldn't come and we were all disappointed but we had to get over it...

We ate at some great restaurants... Petrillo's Italian, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen and a few others.

We visited the Sebastian Inlet, the Sea Turtle Preservation Society and of course I got some Ingress in during the week.

It was a lot to manage with 7 people, but we did it.

Me, BeautyISee, GiftedGabber, CaliBornAndRaised, theWiseOne, theVoiceOfReason and ManAboutTown...love my Family!

Life of the Wild

Up early this morning..figure that.

The wellness challenge at work is about sleep this month and I am doomed to fail even on vacation. We are supposed to get 7 hours a night and that never happens for me! I think I went to bed about 1AM and I was up at 6AM like it was nothing.  Better morning response than when I'm at home and need to go to work! I've already had my breakfast and sat on the patio watching the wildlife.

Every year we come here there is some wildlife that is the one we see more than others... one year it was crabs walking across the streets, one year it was love bugs, another it was the blue jellyfish...always something.

This year it's DOLPHINS!!!!! I'm so excited! There were about 10 of them out this morning and yesterday afternoon we saw two over on the river side by the park. They are just out there playing...

So of course thoughts run through my head...

• I guess dolphins don't sleep? I guess no fish do. 
• I've been sleep all night - lazy human - and they've been swimming
• What makes the morning the best time for them to have fun?
• Will this be a pattern I'll see all week? 

It's just so cool...I can'd wait for R to get some really good pictures with his good camera. But that might be tomorrow because he's a lazy human and hasn't even stirred yet!

P.S. Dragonflies are the other - less exciting - prominent wildlife right now. So far they are cool too...they don't bother me, so they can stay. 

The Games We Play....

First full day in Indialantic and I was determined to do one thing...level up! It worked! I am now level 6 in Ingress and I'll have to do everything I've already done again to get a level 7! Ugh...I saw someone posted on the COMM that they were "over level 7" and I think I already am and I haven't even gotten there yet.

We had already been shopping yesterday, so there was truly nothing to do but work on our game. We went out about 12PM and stayed out until almost 3PM. Then we came back, had lunch and made a new plan to make several control fields in 3 areas. The plans didn't always work out, but we got good points and covered the city in blue!

It's crazy that while we were on one side of town making new fields, someone was back where we'd just been blowing the previous ones up.

Don't know why I think this is so much fun...but it is! I know that TheNewGirl probably thinks I'm crazy, lol...that's more than likely true.

The red dots show our fields!