Beach part 2

Wednesday we spent several hours playing at the beach. It was such a nice day!!  Later on we explored the pier where some kid had just caught a shark!  He said it was about the 14th one he had caught this trip. Adam got to touch it (and the guy even offered to let him hold it - yikes!) before he threw it back in. Thankfully it swam away.  After that we headed over to Haley's ice cream shop.  The kid working there gave Adam a HUGE scoop of sherbet.  Dave got to talking to the kids there about music so I asked Adam if he wanted to sit outside and look at the ocean as we ate.  As soon as we walked outside our ice cream started dripping too fast to eat so we ran back in.  Ha ha!  We got back to the house in time for Adam to take a quick evening swim before it got too dark.

Thursday was really warm so we decided to go to Planet Fun!  We started off with mini golf.  Adam was so excited until he saw the room was dark. (It had black lights and fluorescent paint to look "cool" and underwaterish).  He literally went running and screaming out of the building. The place was empty so the nice lady working turned the lights on for us.  After our 9 holes of golf and not keeping score, we moved on to bowling.  Adam got bumpers.  We did not.  I won!  (Adam was not far behind).  Then we loaded up a card for the arcade.  Adam LOVES winning tickets (which were paperless and went on the card here - kind of cool) and trading them in for candy! 
Later, when it was cooler, the guys went swimming while I enjoyed the beach.

Friday we packed some lunch and headed to Southport to go the Fort Fisher aquarium.  We ate lunch on the ferry.  The aquarium was a little crowded since it is so small and a school group was there.  Adam was interested in the beginning stuff but once we went inside where it got dark and crowded, he just kind of walked by everything.  We found a playground and snacks on the way out which he liked but it was time to go catch the ferry.  And of course as we were leaving, so was the school group.  We stopped at Patronies on the way home for some carry-out.  YUMMY meatball sub and calszone! Then we all went swimming.  The water was perfect temp and great waves!  Great end to a great week!