Hi everyone,
Today it’s Sissy’s turn to show and tell about her pictures.
Hi Jeanne,
Here are some photos from our trip to Crystal River, Florida. We had a large crowd because more was added by my nephew’s younger daughter’s boyfriend and his family. We had 2 boats, captained by my nephew and my older son.
July the first was the open day for getting the scallops and we started out early with the boats. It takes a while to get out there in the Gulf. Here is a photo of my nephew’s boat. There were at least 100 or more boats already there.
Also, a photo of my granddaughter, Simone, her cousin, Harper, and Elvis, and really cute friend of Simone’s from CA.
He was so excited to swim in the Gulf, and you can see he was a good swimmer as he holds up one of his bags of scallops.
Also here is a photo of our scallops in the cooler and another of Peyton, me, my younger son, Tommy, and Harper leaning over the scallops and cleaning them out of the shells. It took us all the way back to my nephew Mark’s house to finish that!
After we got our selves cleaned up we went to Mark and Deb’s house and started a great dinner. Here I am cooking the scallops, we had enough for me to make the 3 times. We had a lot of cooks in the crowd and I made my cheese grits and had my meringues for desserts. My son Ronny took the photo of me getting ready to put the scallops in the pan. They are delicious with butter, lemon, and garlic.
The next day we took out Mark’s boat and the big boat with big slide on top that my older son Ronny had rented.
Here are Ronny and Tommy handling the boat.
People were relaxing in the water, also jumping off the big boat or sliding down it. Even my older brother who will soon be ninety-one slid down it!
The two girls and Elvis got on one of Mark’s Skidoo’s and went searching for some manatees, these lovely big, kind animals that swim all through the water. They found some and had fun swimming with them.
Photo of manatee.
That night we went out to eat at a great seafood place. Here are Peyton and Carl, my older brother having a great visit while waiting for dinner. The last day was July 4th and this shows Tommy, Ronny and Mark making some “music” before dinner, then the lovely sunset before the fireworks. We had to leave before the fireworks because we had to leave really early the next day. It was a great time, hard to leave everyone, especially my family. I hope you liked seeing some of our trip.
Thank you Sissy! Your pictures are so much fun! It looks like a good time was had by all! Your whole family LIVES for the water, don’t they? It’s pretty obvious!
Thank you for sharing,
Blessings, Jeanne
First of all, thank you to everyone for your kind comments on my photos yesterday. I tried to answer each comment,
We are getting a lot of smoke from the Spokane fire today; I managed to spend it in air-conditioned places this afternoon, to try to minimize the effects of the smoke on my asthma.
Sissy, thanks so much for sharing your wonderful pictures. You and Peyton look just as I remember you, when we met a number of years ago!
What fun you all had on the water!! It rather reminds me of when I was growing up and my aunt and uncle had a cabin on Lake Michigan. We spent a lot of time on and in the water, too!!
Those scallops certainly have pretty shells, and in different colors. I don’t recall for sure if I have tried them or not.
Oh, my–that slide really looks like fun! We didn’t have anything like that on Lake Michigan, that I recall, but we did have a raft, as I recall, at least some summers.
Jeanne, I hope and pray George is getting a little stronger every day.