Day 16 – The Los Vegasonian's arrival

Today started like the rest – early to rise and excited to see what the day had in store for us. Anna and I grabbed coffee and went out near the pool area. They have some palm trees located just below the pool area at the start of the beach. I hung the ENOs up so the kids could use them after they would wake up.

It didn’t take long and I went out to the beach to start cast netting for bait fish. You would not think that there would be channel catfish right off the beach here, but they are here in masses. It must apparently be a spawning ground because the first cast I caught around 8 baby catfish. The next two casts again gained 3 and then 5. Not the fish you are looking cast net. Several casts later and I was able to land some nice size pilchers.

Jill and Janey, Jill’s mom, came the Neptune and visit Anna around 10am. We chatted at the hotel a bit and then scooted over to the Tuckaway café for a bite to eat. The kids were still lounging around and had no desire to go. LT got his legs burned over the past few days, so while the ladies were finishing breakfast I ran over to Goodz to grab some Aloe. Goodz was a general store which was directly across the street from Tuckaway. Before leaving Anna got a call from Colt telling her they were almost to the hotel, so off we went to see the baby.

Colt, Kelsie and Kendall have a little girl that is almost two. A precious little thing that had everyone’s attention. It was long before Darryl, Toby and Lane arrived. Then Hailey and Danny. Lastly, Dillion and his new girlfriend Sam arrived. Luckily the weather was good and everyone hung out at the beach yapping away.

As soon as Lane got there, the boys immediately grabbed the cast nets and went out to start catching. They walked up and down the beach flinging the nets filling the wells to the brims. Once their mission was accomplished the boys, Darryl and I grab some bait and weighted in the waters. I managed to wrangle in a beautiful large Snook, but that seemed to be it. The rest of the day the lines dangled freely.

Everyone visited for several hours and the girls played with little Kendall. Olivia swooped her up and had played with her in the sand, ocean and pool. She is a ball of energy as all little two years old are. Toby and the ladies took her for a little walk and shortly thereafter she was crashed out of Toby without movement for a good one to two hours.

Around 5pm everyone was heading over to Carla’s for dinner. Anna and I stopped by mom and dad’s before going to Carla’s to say “Hi!” They just got back last night from Russia. We didn’t stay long but for only about 15 minutes before heading to dinner.

The house was moving and shaking when we arrived. All the kids were in the pool and the young adults were all inside on the couch yapping away. Carla was cooking up a storm, Toby was lounging in the pool with the older boys & Darrell, Hayli and Danny were in the patio set talking. Everyone was moving around and catching up.

Amanda, Eric and the kids finally arrived and not a moment too soon. The boys all got in gave hugs and got on their bathing suits. Not sure how Eric and Amada were still functioning. They just drove a mere 36 hours from Los Vegas. Little Rosie was happy to see her Auntie Carla, but she was the only one. Little Rosie is a little shy one.

We all visited a bit longer and finally went back to the hotel around 11pm.