We woke up and Derek and Trey were excited to play with their new friends Ty and Fletcher, the friends wanted them to go to the beach with them. So we all headed over there. Ty had all kinds of cool beach toys like a Kayak. He let Derek use it at the beach. We couldn't stay long because we were heading out soon. Dax and Curtis stayed up near a hotel porch and watched from the beach. Trey, Derek and I stayed near the water and ocean, Trey and Derek played in the waves with Ty and Fletcher then it was soon time to take off.
We headed East towards Apalachacola, . We stopped in this tiny town called Carbelle. Curtis wanted to show us the worlds smallest police station. On our short walk to the police station we parked in front of a tiny museum. We got the impression that they didn't get many visitors. The husband and wife workers almost begged us to come in and have all five of us sign their book, so they get some type of credit for something. It was kind of neat she showed the kids some old Native American artifacts, let the kids hold a 30,000 year old clam shell. It was also interesting to see the importance of the salt factories in the area. During the civil war the salt factories were significant because they used the salt to cure meats to provide food for the Confederate soldiers. It was a big setback when he Union Soldiers seized the salt factories along the gulf coast. After the ti y museum we walked over to the tiny police station, which is actually a phone booth with a police phone. Kind of funny. We walked over to this little ice cream shop that looked like the 1950's. Not just decorated like the '50s but never moved past the '50s. They even had an old rotary phone. It rang with a real bell sound, not an electronic ring. Then Dax asked if cell phones could make calls to old wall phones. We laughed, but thought it was a good question especially since we watched cell phones evolve unlike Dax who doesn't know a world without them.
After that we went to Wakuula Springs. Curtis and Dax had gone to this place before and it was really neat. The water didn't have good visibility that day because of all the rain but it was still a cool looking swampy place. Old movies like Tarzan and the creature from the Black Lagoon had been filmed there. There was all kinds of wild life like tons of Alligators, some cool looking birds, these ducks with red bills (and green feet,which I did not see) We even saw a Bald Eagle, and some manatee swam along with us in the boat tour.
Then there is a little area where you can swim in the spring. There is a platform to jump off and swim in the area. Curtis really wanted us to all jump off. When I saw/fe;t the water I had no desire to get in. Derek just waded in knee deep, but Treyson, Curtis and Dax jumped off the high platform. I couldn't believe it. I was watching them and then Trey and Curtis jumped in. It was about a 15 ft jump. I was afraid Trey would come up crying but he came up laughing, then he jumped again. He said the water was so cold, his heart stopped beeping. He loved it. Dax eventually jumped off the high one as well. I was proud of all of them. Then they all jumped off the low one a few times.
It was time to move on and head towards Orlando. We were finally getting close to the kids Highlight of this trip. We got pretty close about an hour outside Orlando when we decided to stop and sleep at a truck stop. I text-ed my friend, Shayndel and let her know we wanted to see her the next day.
We didn't sleep as well at this truck stop as we did at previous ones. The trucks were packed in so close to each other. It wasn't a quite night with the diesel trucks running all night.
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