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For the long Labor Day Weekend, we decided to stay in town and explore our "new" home as a family. Thankfully, we have been blessed with lots of sunshine so far and so we took advantage of the beautiful weather yesterday and went to Emerald Isle Beach. It was Amelia's first time at the beach since she can sit up on her own. She had a great time playing with the sand and eating it too no matter how hard I try to stop her! She wasn't very fond of the water temperature either. Amelia prefer her bath water really warm (like Daddy and Kuya). I thought the ocean water was perfect; it was just cool enough to cool you down from the hot, blazing sun. As always, Nathaniel loved playing in the water and even more so now that Hubby is with us this time. He rode on Daddy's shoulder and they went in the deeper end. He could not stop talking about how awesome it was to play in the waves. That evening during bedtime prayers, Nathaniel's ...

On our last day in St. Simon's Island, we visited their pier. We saw so many interesting things like a shark and horseshoe crab! The locals were fishing (sharking?) for sharks to tag them and we were lucky to see them catch and release one. I was reassured by them (and many more times by Hubby since then) that this shark will be fine. Later in the afternoon, we went back to St. Simon's East beach for our last day at the beach.

On our fourth day of vacation, we drove half an hour south to Jekyll Island and the weather was perfect. Sunshiny and breezy! There were a group of students fishing for different water animals and the boys were very curious to learn about the animals, too. We also visited the Sea Turtle Rehabilitation and Hospital. The rescued sea turtles were injured from propellers, cars, dehydration and/or malnutrition. Velcro-ed weights on their shells were used for diving therapy because without their ability to dive, turtles cannot find food and starve to death :(

It was cloudy and super hot on our first day at the beach in St. Simon's Island (it eventually rained in the afternoon). The boys had a great time exploring the beach and playing with sand and driftwoods. Dean got severely sunburned after a couple of hours of laying out (see second to the last photo) and I had this for lunch. Overall, it was a great day.