Today was K's turn for some solo parent time. We took her early this AM to go watch for whales and Point Lookout didn't disappoint. It doesn't make for good photos, if you look really closely you can see the spray from a whale--look about an inch above K's head at about 11:00. That little whiteness, that's it. But in real life, it was pretty neat. We didn't get it on film but we did see one jump clear out of the water. That was amazingly impressive.
On the way back to the house, there were cars pulled over on the side of the road and a hoard of people taking pictures of the trees. We thought maybe there was a koala so we pulled over. Instead, we realized what they were looking at were bats. Tons and tons of them! The trees were literally crawling with them for about 800 yards. It was insane! They sound like new born babies crying. Way neat. We stood there for probably 15 minutes just watching them. It was fascinating!
We were excited because the sun was shining brighter than it has all week so we hurried through brekky and headed out for the beach. Sadly the wind was vicious and it was freezing. No one wanted to get in the water but we did find all these awesome muscles (or whatever they are) growing on the rocks! Can you say, "bait"?! We were super excited and the kids spent a half an hour scraping them off the rocks.
Today was ∞'s turn to be a mermaid and she was the only one of us that was even a little warm! I gave my towel to L so he could be warm and he ended up flying it like a cape running down the beach screaming, "L is AWESOME!!!"
About the only other noteworthy thing that happened today was we met a family from the states while we were on the beach. The convo started as almost every one has during this holiday, "Are they all yours?" But instead of the typical followup of, "You sure have your hands full" or "And you brought all of them on holiday for two months?! You must be exhausted!" they came back with, "You are incredible! How wonderful to have such a big beautiful family! I'll bet you are the most loved woman on the planet!" What a refreshing response to an unusual family! It gave me such a boost! I wish I'd gotten their names so I could thank them publicly. It is wonderful to have such a large family. It's an amazing blessing to be so loved all the time. To have every moment of your time coveted by a group of incredible people. Yes, it's exhausting. Yes it takes constant organization. Yes sometimes it's amazingly overwhelming. But it is the sweetest, most intensely joyous feeling I've ever experienced.
I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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