I'm heading to bed because tomorrow morning we're going to try to get up at 7am (that's when we got up to take the boards!!) and go out to the beach and cut-throat for the good shells. We've collected some really great ones so far (I have an awesome picture of them all on our window sill but it's on my big camera and I haven't loaded the pictures yet) but they're all small-ish. It would be cool to just find one medium-large shell. I keep finding pieces of ones that must have been huge so I know they're out there.

This evening when we came back in from the beach to get ready for dinner, we were emptying out our shell bags and Glen found a quarter-size crab in one of his, so he walked back to the beach to return it to its home. He was back sooner than I expected and he gestured that I should come out -- he told me there was a water tornado off the shore! Some lightning and thunder had started to come from those classic huge Florida clouds while we were still on the beach, but this was a whole different level of storm. I got to see the end -- a huge white twister, S-shaped, kicking up a huge mess of water where it touched down on the Gulf. This was framed by lightning and, to the left, a rainbow. And the whole time it was sunny where we were.

Oh, and before we had come in, there was a dolphin right where we had been playing frisbee in the water 10 minutes earlier.

It's so awesome down here. Have I said that before?