May 17, 2018
Daytona Beach Pier & Boardwalk
We’ve been to Daytona Beach’s park a few times. We like to park at the top of the parking garage (level 6, but today, that one was closed so we had to settle for level 5) and go down the echoing steps to the huge colorful crossover walkway to the shops and restaurants! This walkway is a covered bridge over the six lanes of traffic. It always has a strong ocean breeze whistling through the glass panels. Lucas loves the pretty pictures of fish, turtles, dolphins, and other sea life on the floor. He likes seeing the cars go under him!
Lucas and Jaquline rode all the dolphins!
But Lucas wouldn’t do the turtle – just the girls in age order.
Our Mother’s Day picture was taken at the stone fountain on the far end of the Daytona plaza. Louis took a burst shot of us (new camera function, I think) and we managed one nice picture!
We like to wander up and down the plaza where Lucas stopped three times, mesmerized by the drones. A golf cart came down the beach collecting beach umbrellas and Lucas squealed, “a tiny truck in the sand!” This made one of the teenage boys driving it turn his face red. Jillian calls out, “why is your face all burnt now?”
A helicopter completed the aerial show. Kimberly spotted it and showed Lucas and Jillian. “Can it land, Mommy?” Lucas asks. Since the Family Fun Fest and the landing of the Police helicopter, Lucas thinks all helicopters are going to land next to him!
We went back over the walkway and down the elevator to the ground floor. (These elevators are amazing, they have a window!) After playing on the stone critters, taking some pictures, walking around the city for about three miles, climbing the stairs again, going over the walkway again, and down then up in the elevator, we made it to our van.
The sun was setting on a beautiful day of family adventure!
Thanks for reading!
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~Nancy Tart