In case you haven't noticed all of the blueberry references....the other day we got 2 flats of fresh blueberries at a blueberry farm. Hence the muffins this morning for breakfast which were fabulous (the crystallized sugar on top made them great) and the blueberry pie for dessert tonight. We will be taking back a few pints of the blueberries with us so I'm sure a few blueberry dishes will be in our future.
After breakfast we packed up our stuff and headed out to Poppy's boat. He has a 34 foot Taiwanese trawler. They used to have a sailboat but it just got to be too much work so a few years ago they sold their last sailboat and bought the trawler. It took us about an hour to get out to the city of Washington and Al radioed in to the dock to have them help us tie up the boat etc. After we got off the boat we headed over to the Estuarium. We have been there before but Travis really likes checking out the turtles that hang out by the dock there. At that point it was almost time for lunch so we wandered over to Pia's. Everyone had a great meal....Al and I had the Ruben, Evan had the grouper sandwich, Jamey had the Thai chicken wrap and Travis had the grilled cheese! Once we were officially stuffed we headed back to the boat. About half way back to the marina we stopped in the water to give Travis the opportunity to fish.....this attempt didn't work out too well.....
When we got back to the marina Poppy said there was a spot by the kayaks that was good for fishing. After he closed up the boat they headed over there to try and fish there. About a few minutes in Travis caught something! They reeled it in and it was a FLOUNDER! He was so excited but no surprise he didn't want to touch it! Poppy got it off the hook and threw it back in the water. A little while later he got another bite and this time it was a CRAB! Except as soon as it was out of the water the crab jumped off the hook and started running around on the dock. This is when Travis started yelling and jumping around to try and get away from the crab. Something tells me the crab was as scared of Travis as he was afraid of the crab! At some point he did catch another crab but this one never got out of the water. That is when they got tired of fishing and called to get picked up.
The next item on the agenda was going to the pool for a quick swim! Jamey and I took Travis over to the pool. He had a blast jumping in and showing Grammy/Jamey how he could swim. Well he doesn't swim but he paddles very nicely! Eventually we all got out of the pool and headed over to the Bait shop to get ice cream for the pie. This place was a little scary. Worms next to the milk and people smoking in the store. Good times! We had yummy bratwurst for dinner and we had some delicious blueberry pie for dessert! At one point after we ate Travis and Poppy went out back to play more golf. He has gotten a lot better in just the few days he has been here.
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