Green alligators and long neck geese

After staying up very late, Foster and I weren't exactly motivated to be getting out of bed when mom showed up randomly in our room. We were, however, hungry, so we got up, packed our things, and got ready for church relatively quickly. (quickly enough considering we had just woken up)
Anyway, we left the hotel and Mom, Foster, and I waited in the car while Dad went to check out. At this point we had entered a crucial time period- two minutes longer than planned and there was no breakfast for any of us. We waited, and waited, and waited, still no sign of Dad. Finally, well after the time we would have had to leave to get breakfast, he comes back. We asked him what took so long- was there a lot of people checking out? Did he get lost? Did a gunman raid the hotel? No, Dad wanted a 5 dollar refund, and spent 20 minutes with the receptionist trying to get it. Yeah. Certain people might have been slightly salty after that.
Anyway, here we were in the car on the way to church, and dad thinks it would be a GREAT idea to play country music. 70's country music in the car with 3 people who hadn't eaten breakfast. I'm pretty sure at one point Foster launched himself into the front seat to try and sabotage the radio, but I'm not sure since my headphones were in, trying to block out the music myself.

Ok, story time-

We arrive at some random Catholic church in Brunswick Georgia. Dad and mom immediately find an elderly woman working as a greeter and ask where the bathroom is, while Foster and I find a seat. It isn't long before we see them again, this time at the front of the church, near the altar, in front of everyone there. We can't hear whats going on, but it was clear: Dad finds the deacon, shakes his hand, and next thing we know, the deacon is pointing somewhere near the back of the church, Dad is thanking him, and heading off in that direction with Mom. They asked the deacon where the bathroom was in front of the whole church. Classy. 

After communion Mom, Foster, and I are sitting quietly in our seats and then we turn to look at Dad. I'm not sure why he felt the need to rest his head on the pew, but apparently he did. Here's Foster's interpretation- 

When church was over, we were hungry, to say the least. However, Dad refused to stop for food, saying we were "almost there" and "we'd eat when we'd get there". Little did we know we had a nice barbecue lunch waiting for us at a friend's house- this leg of the vacation was to be at a the house of my parent's friends in St. Simons island. Becca and Don are really kind, and our parents spent the first twenty minutes reminiscing about a certain 40th birthday party (complete with karaoke) and denying alcohol was involved. 

Our view from the road

After a much needed much, we changed and went on a really relaxing boat ride courtesy of Don, who we later learned is now a reverend. There was a lot of wildlife. "We saw green alligators and long neck geese, a humpty back camel and some chimpanzees. Some rats and cats and elepha- " yeah just kidding. But we did see some dolphins, alligators, and eagles. 

Mom and Dad on the boat

View from the dock

Fast forward to dinner time- Becca prepared a nice low country boil, and Don expertly cooked it. It was a nice dinner, but the discussion afterwards was even better. Somehow Mom got on the topic of phones, and was trying to explain how the "phone goddess giveth so the phone goddess can taketh away", though it was slightly confusing to everyone else, considering the "phone goddess" would probably not be able to operate the phone they were attempting to take away (switch to iPhone mom). 

Here's dad laughing about his own antics in church-