My Blunder Turned Out To Be A Blessing

I am a member of two e-groups that are for homeschoolers in north Alabama. One of those had an event listed taking place on the beach at the state park near our house. So, we took a break from school for a few hours and headed out. This may sound bad, we have lived in Guntersville for a year now, and have never gone to the state park. So we head out with a picnic lunch, a little unsure of exactly where we are going and what we will see when we get there. Ok, this may sound moronic, but I was just thinking "beach" not "beach at the state park". We found the right street and seemed to drive forever. The street was lined with trees on each side. I was beginning to wonder if we would ever see any signs of civilization. Mark kept questioning if I was actually leading them the right way. Samuel(who is five) even piped in with "Mom, crack is whack, and you are crack."
We finally got the beach entrance. As we pulled up to the beach, we hear Samuel say "I'm going to do everything just like the white people at the beach." Say whaaaat?!?!?! Nathaniel told him he was being racist. We asked him what he meant by what the white people do at the beach. (I'm thinking, burn? wear bermuda shorts and dark socks? what?) He tells us he did not say WHITE people, he said HAWAII people!!!! How funny!
The first thing we noticed is a lack of people. Almost no one.
So we wondered if maybe it got called off for some reason. But we decided since we were there already to go ahead and stay a while.

And yes, that is a pine tree, not a palm tree.




Like our castle? You can tell boys built it when it is complete with a moat monster.

I was reminded of why we never go anywhere on a boat. Some of my guys were getting seasick,on a boat ramp, especially Benjamin. What a bunch of land-lubbers!

We decided to try to leave the park a different way than we got there. We passed a pretty look-out point and decided to stop. Benjamin would not get out of the car, though.

Like my hair? I did not realize that it looked like that and went into an office to pay a bill, and to the library.
We did not find a bathroom to wash our hands at the beach, so we went to a different park for our picnic. The ducks really wanted our food.

I wish the picture would show the crumbs on this duck's beak. Benjamin dropped a Dorito. The duck really liked it.(don't tell PETA)

Notice the duck sticking his tongue out at me. He did that several times.

I am not sure what breed this duck but I think it is pretty. Actually, I think it looks somewhat like a turkey.

Mr. Turkey Duck again.
When we got home I checked the message board again to see is the beach party had gotten called off. It turns out that the party is not until next week. Mark stills thinks that this was some elaborate plot just to get to go to the beach. Whatever it was, we had a really great day.
Until our next misadventure...Blessings to you and your family.