Sunday, August 26, 2012

Hermit Crabs and Ice Cream (Fair Hope Part II)




This is the continuation of my Fair Hope post from 2 posts ago.  I had too many pictures for one post so this one primarily consists of Mason showing off his bucket of crabs to the entire family. 


I couldn't help it.  I had to take 500 pictures of him carrying around the bucket and looking in the bucket, etc. etc. and then I couldn't choose between them and thus posted 40 of them.  Sorry.


There were TONS of little crabs running all around the sea wall by our doc and as soon as my brother arrived he jumped down there and scooped up a few for Mason to put in his bucket.  There were hermit crabs and spider crabs(?) and Mason was beside himself.


He had to show them off to everyone.  Here, he is showing them to BopBop.


Can you see his black eye?  He woke up early that morning and I put him in the bed with us.  He kept crawling around and fell against the iron headboard hitting his eye perfectly on the iron bar landing himself his very first shiner.  It stayed black and blue for a good week.  After that cleared up he hit is head on the coffee table.  After that cleared up he hit his head on a toy dump truck.  The cycle never ends.

   

In these photos, Mason has decided he wants to carry the buck to Na Na and show her the crabs....


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The 10 foot journey took a while...


But he finally arrived.


Rewind to earlier that morning...


When Matt and Ben went deep sea fishing, Dad, Mom, Mason, and I went to the community pier. (These pictures really go in post one but I got mixed up.)


When everyone arrived back at the cottage, Matt crashed on the couch and Mom, Dad, Ben, Mason, and I all went to dinner at Wolf Bay Lodge and then returned home for some homemade Butterfinger Ice cream. (Recipe: Mix together 1 pack of small Butterfingers crushed up, 1 container of cool whip, 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk, 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 1 can eagle brand evaporated milk, then freeze in your ice cream maker!)  It. Is. Awesome!  P.S. Use lots of rock salt. That is the secret (thanks Dad).



Mason is a fan.




It was a quick trip but it was so much fun!  We loved Fair Hope and definitely want to go back soon!



katielassiter

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