Day 13- Last Trip to Venice

Today was supposed to be a relaxing, stay-in-the-pool-all-day kinda day, but we decided to go to Venice for the last time so Grandpa could use the rest of his frozen bait to fish. It was a beautiful day at the beach! It wasn't windy, which made the pier more enjoyable. :)

Dad, Diella, and I were walking along the beach when we saw a boat sailing right across from the shore. Diella called it a pirate ship. :) I had never seen a boat look like that before, so it was cool to get some pictures of it.

Grains of sand.... I just love getting close ups of sand! It's so cool!

Diella and Dad. :) She was being a goofball about getting her picture taken.

A close up of my feet buried in the sand.

This was taken from under the pier. I wanted to take this picture also, but I thought we weren't going to come back to Venice. Once we were walking on the beach, I was quick to walk under and get a shot of the pier from this angle. Isn't it kinda neat under there? :)

The side of the pier with the end of it in the background.

Another shot of the boat- I like how it was in the spot where the sun glared off of the ocean.

The boys played football for a long time, so I took a lot of pictures of them playing.

The boys playing football, with "Sharky's" behind them.

Here are some airplane streaks, going into the sun.

A beautiful palm tree.

Josiah brought a book with him in case he would get bored on the pier. When Dad said he was done playing football, Josiah grabbed his book and sat behind one of the beach chairs to read.

Saphi was in her own little world the whole time we were on the beach. I'm not sure what she was doing in this picture, but nevertheless, she's really cute. :)

 Every day, Dad read a portion out of "The Garden of Gratitude" for a devotion time. After every reading, we would think of a word (or words) that went along with what he had read. Then, we would put them on the windows that were surrounding the dining room (that's where we had devotions). Here are all four of the windows with all of the words we used. 

The words on the first window were:

Teshuva (it is the Hebrew word for repent), pray, pause and think/thank, and decisive.

Words on the second window were:

Joy, free donuts (cause everyone wants free donuts. :), thankfulness, and beautiful.

The third window had:

Patience, precious people, and believe.

And the fourth window had the words:

Faith, perspective, honor, and miracles.

Sadly, today was our last day in the sunshine State. We had such a fun time exploring the unexplored (in our eyes), fishing, shark teeth hunting, swimming, and just hangin' around the house. :) I hope you enjoyed reading about our trip, and I hope I did a good job writing about everything we did!

Blessings!

Alegra