I am sitting her at the family condo in Panama City waiting for everyone to wake up. I came for an unexpected spontaneous holiday with my second eldest daughter who is expecting our eighth grandchild in a few weeks. Just an inkling that she needed some Mummy time. She had taken my youngest set of twins away to entertain her four year old and I just felt that might be more than she expected.

We have had an amazing few days swimming, go carting, dining and best of all an amazing boat ride. I have always looked at those boat rides as just going up and down the front beach, but seeing we just had a couple of kids we thought it might make for a change from sitting on the beach. Well I certainly underestimated the boat ride. It was the most fabulous and amazing time I had ever had. Our first stop was to see the dolphins who were swimming in crystal clear water around the 75 ft. boat. Then they started to do tricks for fish. It was truly something to be seen. We then started off and they began to swim in the wake of the boat. We ended up with something like 15 or 20 dolphins swimming along with the boat flipping in the air and doing tricks. I have never seen anything like it. Even the captain said he had never seen them like that before. And these were wild dolphins! Not like the ones at sea world.

We then went up the beautiful gulf coast, fired the cannon several times which was interesting for the kids, had a water gun fight with a pirate ship (not a real one) and then the kids had their own water gun fight in the back of the boat. Flying above us were these flyers in kite like little flying machines which were propelled by something that looked like a bike. Absolutely amazing. They were flying around the boat and doing aerodynamics. We then set off back to the dock and just before the end pulled up a crab pot and out came a dozen or so crabs that the kids got to pick up. It was a wonderful day.

Came home and got ready to go to dinner and oh oh. Text from Rog who is home with the other kids, to say we had been contacted by a CASA worker in Tennessee (child advocate worker) asking out two children we had adopted. I suspect the God is up to something and the family may be growing. Time will tell. Life is always unexpected but that keeps it interesting.