Delimpo Days: Tuesday at the Beach!

After the first few days at the beach, Levi started taking a liking to the pool at our condo more so than the beach. I think he enjoyed playing in the water that didn't burn his eyes. He even got to the point that he liked going under the water in the pool and would laugh when he'd come up!

So on Tuesday, we decided to spend the morning at the beach and the rest of the day at the pool. That day we saw probably 25 or so dolphin swimming really close to the shore. Levi was actually able to see them as well! After a while when we didn't see them any longer, we decided to go out into the waves. Sure enough, about 15 minutes later they came back!!! We were SO CLOSE to them!! It was very cool and I don't know if that chance will ever happen again. After I swam back to shore, Anthony and Levi stayed out and a dolphin jumped out of the water right in front of them. No joke...Anthony says it was probably within 20 feet of them!

Another thing Levi enjoyed doing on that day was searching for "Pepe" and "Maka" (remember his goldfish that died?) in the water. We were able to see those little fish that swim up with the tide, and Levi woudl squeal with delight when he saw one and would shout out "PEPE" or "MAKA". It was precious.

So like I said, that Tuesday afternoon and evening we decided to spend most of our time in the pool.

After dinner, we took Levi to one of those surf shops to let him pick out a "souvenir" of our beach trip. We all had a great time in the store looking at all the different things. I picked him out a Myrtle Beach T-shirt (pictures of that to come later) and then we let him pick out one toy.

He found this dolphin...which I thought was really special since we had just seen the real dolphins earlier that day! It squeeks and kind of sounds like a real dolphin. He wouldn't let go of it!

That night, we took the dolphin, who he named "Nano" down to the pool for a swim.

His most favorite thing to do in the pool was to play on the steps and "slide" down the railing that you can kind of see in this picture. He'd tell Anthony, "AGAIN AGAIN". He would get brave and walk around the steps and walk right off of them into the water and Anthony would scoop him up out of the water (he was completely submerged), and he'd just laugh his head off!