Last night we enjoyed watching the lightning and thunder from the balcony far out in the distance, and then super quickly, the storm rolled in off the ocean bringing rain storm like pouring buckets from the lanai! But it gave way to a beautiful morning! The ibis birds were down at the dock to greet us good morning.
We enjoyed another lazy day at the pool, which has become the greatest asset of this house. I like that the pool screen keeps Doodles safely contained from all the wildlife she's continually trying to hunt. And the pool screen keeps out the excessive bugs and criters, but occasionally some get in and they are creepy-crawly! We pull out the pool toys for us to all play with and have started keeping a designated bug spray and sunscreen down there so we don't forget it because the sun is hot here!
Lizards and centipedes are everywhere! We even saw the colorful Lubber grasshopper!
In the afternoon we took a short trip to one of the local grocery stores, Jerry's. We are noticing that each setting for a store has more then one store to attract tourists, making it more of a marketplace trap. Jerry's is fun though because there are many parrot cages scattered around for Keiki to wave "hi" and talk to the birds by saying "tweet tweet." Great entertainment for a TinyTot!
When prepping dinner back at home, sometimes we allow Keiki to watch Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. It is a cartoon version of the Mr. Rogers we grew up with. Turn on any other TV show and she takes no interest in it, but give her a cheery slow-paced cartoon tiger and she can be entertained for almost 20 minutes! We realized that she hasn't watched it in almost 2 weeks since we started our road trip down to Florida so we watched her light up like a Christmas tree when we turned it on an let her park it on a special rug to relax. It's the simple things that entertain this munchkin the most!