Today our family show up and they brought the sun with them!! Aunt Denise, Aunt Giselle, Adrienne, Kay and PEPERE all came down for some fun in the sun! We had such a fabulous time with them, it was so nice to hang out for the day. Half of us headed to the beach, while half of us stayed back at the house to play dominoes and cards.
Wednesday Night is the Hermit Crab Races at the local beach shop. We wanted to go last week but the race was canceled due to the rain. It was the first time they canceled the race in 4 years. We were all pretty disappointed last week that we missed the race, but no one was more disappointed then Mo. lol Ichiro and I said we would go this week and take lots of pictures to show her.
We showed up at 7 to register for the race, you pick your crab and then wait for your heat. The heats started at 8 so to waste some time we headed for some ice cream. When we got back to the Purple Ape it was just about time to begin. We were hermit crab number 9 in heat 4. There were 10 crabs in a heat and 9 heats all together.
Here’s a picture of Noby picking out his hermit crab. He picked a nice big blue one…
Waiting for our heat…
Our heat… GO GO GO!
GUESS WHAT MO… OUR CRAB CAME IN FIRST FOR OUR HEAT!!! That’s right, Noby won his heat. Now you don’t win anything for winning your heat, you only get a place in the final race. So we waited around for the final race to happen. All the heats only had 10 crabs in the race but the final race had the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place crabs from each heat, so a total of 27 crabs. By the time the final race started Noby was ready to leave. He wouldn’t sit, he didn’t want to be held, and there were just way to many people to let him walk around. Right before the final race started I tried to get Noby close to the track to see the race, but of course there were so many kids (27 of them) trying to get close enough to see. While we were trying to see, Noby dropped a little stone on the boy standing in front of him. Then he started to pull the kids sweatshirt, so I moved out of the viewing area. WELL GUESS WHAT MO!! Noby’s crab came in 3rd in the FINAL race!!! That’s right, Noby won an hour free on the paddle boats. We knew we wouldn’t use the prize so I decided to just give it to one of the kids there. Who better to give it to then the kid Noby dropped a rock on. lol They were so excited and the parents were very appreciate.
