Windy Wednesday in Fort Walton

Eliott's been sick off and on since Sunday night, and he woke up today not feeling well at all again.  We had a light breakfast and headed out to the beach because it's supposed to be the only day not raining while we are in Florida.  Lucas finally got to build the castle and moat he's been talking about since before we left.

Lucas and his castle by the sea

Speaking of Lucas, I'm fairly certain you've seen the last blog from him.  He prefers imagining his own stories and writing them out. Maybe one day I'll get him to create a story and put it on here for everyone to read.  He sure loves to write.

Eliott didn't last long at the beach so Aaron and I took turns hanging out in the hotel room with Eliott while the other one spent time with Luke.  Aaron came in with Eliott and Lucas and I made sand castles, and then he decided he wanted to swim in the pool.  No big deal, I thought.  It's heated.  We swam for a whole 10 minutes and he decided he was done so then we had to get out....in the 20 mph winds....and 50 degrees.  Brr.  We did not think that through.  We came back up and hung out with Aaron and Eliott for a bit while we thawed out.

We had to make a quick run to Target for a few things, and by the time we were done there, Eliott was exhausted.  The poor guy has felt worse today I think than the last few days.  We went back to the hotel to drop Eliott and Aaron off and Lucas and I went to grab some lunch.  We found a fairly new restaurant to try called Rockin' Tacos Grill & Bar.

 It was the best food I've had down here.  We left there stuffed, and went off to find some geocaches.  (We found two!)

Later on we came back to the hotel and Aaron and Lucas went off to take a walk on the beach and to find some more geocaches (I'm telling you this kid is obsessed).  I hung out with Eliott and watched Food Network...which was his pick not mine, although I was certainly not complaining!

Later on Eliott was feeling up to getting out of the hotel room, so we ventured out to this place that had a ropes course and a great big putt putt course.  We opted for putt-putt, because we were unsure how long Eliott's ok-ness was going to last.  It was a good time and they had lots of special effects throughout the course.  We had a few bucks left on our card from that place so we played a few arcade games.

Eliott racing motorcycles

Aaron's a stealthy fruit ninja

Getting in some Alpine skiing

We headed back to the hotel and ordered some pizza for a late night dinner for the 3 of us who were hungry.  Poor Eliott got sick again here just a bit ago and I'm pretty sure we are going to head back a day early.  We're supposed to get thunderstorms all day tomorrow here and Eliott just wants to go home and lay in his own bed.