Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!
We are in Charleston waiting for boat parts to arrive tomorrow. Meanwhile, the girls have been busy decorating, carving a pumpkin, and preparing for a dock party! Here are some pictures of the decor, more pictures of the day to follow....

The Aquarium, by Jessica

On Sunday October 23, we went to an aquarium with Kurtis, Chrissy and our grandparents. We saw an albino alligator, and we got to touch a lot of animals, like sea stars, welks, horseshoe crabs, and a couple more. Later on, we saw divers dive in a big tank. We got to ask them questions and they would answer them for us. In that tank we saw a moray eel. It is a blue eel, but it looks green because it is covered in yellow mucus. It is a bit weird, but it shows that blue and yellow actually do make green.
We got to see jellyfish that when the light changes colour, it looks like it changes the colour of the jellyfish.
Later on when we were at the dock, we saw an otter beside our boat. He was swimming happily. He came so close to us that we could hear him breathing and chewing. We think he was eating shrimp.
After that, we went to the beach and the first time I went, I found a piece of coral. The second time we went, Madeine, Daddy and I all made a canal using the tide pools on the beach. We tried to protect it when the tide came in by building walls around it and making it deeper. I don't think we made our goal .... the tide won.
I hope it doesn't get too cold there, we are still eating outside in shorts and T-shirts.
Talk to you soon,
Jessica

Along the ICW

Hi friends,
Right now we are anchored in Dewees creek, near mile marker 455 on the ICW.
On the 23d of Oct we rode the fairy over to the Aquarium at Fort Fisher with Kurtis and Chrissy, at the Aquarium we saw crocodiles, jellyfish, sharks, stingrays, sea stars, moray eels, seahorses, porcupine fish, and some other animals too. We also saw a diver in a big tank. I thought it was neat because you could ask her questions and she would answer them from underwater in the tank! My favorite animal was the porcupine fish. It looked a lot like a puffer fish. At our marina (Barefoot Marina), Jessica and I went swimming in the pool. It was cold and really big. It was 3/4 of an acre big, and even had an island in it. One night we were staying at our marina, we drove over the bridge to a restaurant called The River City Cafe with my Grandma Jo, Grandpa Carl, John and Marie. And you were given a basket of peanuts, and when you were done eating one, you could just throw the shell on the floor.
Bye for now,
Madeline