V-V-Vacation

  Guess what! This week my parents surprised me and my brother with a trip to Mississippi! Okay, I know what your thinking : Mississippi isn't exactly a dream vacation hot-spot. But I haven't been on a vacation in two( maybe three! ) years, OK , cut me some slack. And it actually was prrr-e-tty nice! We stayed in a Condo right on the beach! When I say "on", I mean step one step off the Condo's property and you're on the beach. oh! it was sooooo much fun!! Minus me being allergic to the sunscreen and my eyes being on fire because of it,it was fun. The last night we were there we went ghost crab hunting. They are these small, adorable, white crabs. but they only come out at night. We brought flashlights and nets to the beach to find them. We found six!! they are SOOOO CUTE!!! To hide themselves from predators they bury themselves in sand and they do it super fast. and good too! I bet I passed over hundreds, because they literally disappear!

   
  Oh and another interesting thing (this one is really going to blow you away.) while we were looking for crabs, heat lightening started to flash way out over the water. So me, and Aidan turned off our lights. After about two minutes it stopped. It was so pretty with the wind blowing so we just stood there a moment. Then we heard dad shout, " What's that?"  We all looked in the water. then we saw it. There was little bio-luminescent creatures in the water! little flashes of blue light! We didn't have the camera with us so here are two pics I found on the internet. FYI the bottom 2nd pic is actually what the beach looked like. But there wasn't near  as many and they were further out in the water.


                                                                          

                                                               Okay here are the pics:




Mississippi visitors center.



Our condo view


Beautiful clouds over ocean


Us eating at a seafood restaurant

 


Me at a go cart place. It was sooooo Much FUN! ( Aidan below )

 




   When Hurricane Katrina came through Biloxi, Mississippi in 2007, many of it's old oak trees were wiped out in the process. To give the trees a new meaning instead of taking them down, Mayor A.J Holloway and Public Affairs Manager, Vincent Creel, talked to Mississippi " Chainsaw Artist " Dayton Scoggins about carving ocean animals into the dead trees. I took a picture of his first work "The two Angels", and some others I found on the internet:




                                                    Some that we saw but didn't photograph.