Gus and the other youngins' at The Pine School put on a great show for us before the holiday break.  Look at that adventurous little pilgrim.  
And then we had a delicious "Feastival" cooked by Joel, which he renamed Feastivus.  






Insert Gus's birthday party - and then off onto....
Vacation!
We went to Long Key for our Thanksgiving break, and had a blast. Hopefully Yaya and Poppy left with more photos than we did - as our are mostly of sea creatures!
 

  Joel caught this guy on camera off of the dock at our resort.  Meanwhile, Gus is yelling "Mama! Ruby! Shark! Come see the shark!" I'm not sure the tourists in the water between us were thrilled. 

 Ruby got to PET A DOLPHIN!! Toby and Sherman put on a very impressive show for us - this obviously being the highlight:

  









And then we moved on to the Sea Lions.
This is Wilbur: 

Don't be frightened. He was singing to us.



Another impressive trick:

 Our favorite trick of Wilbur's was when we would smile for his trainer.  "Say cheese!" It was a pretty ferocious smile, and I didn't manage to get it on camera.  Luckily, Ruby and Gus do a spot on impression:

This was where we had our favorite dinner - outside on a stormy night.