Hey noodle what did you do today?

Well I woke up at # actually around 6:29 because smol-dog was borking at the door. I did wake up tho and headed to the living room, where I was able to nap until about 8ish because it was cold and grandma wanted to wait until it warmed up enough to get grandpa ready, and also because she was calling this repair guy to talk about the oven. At 8 we got grandpa ready for the morning, and after taking Chloe for a walk I had a plate of corn-flour taquitos in salsa and did some work on the computer. I watched some AGDQ but by Act III of a Diablo II run I was a sleepy boi and took a noodle nap around 10:30.

I woke up at around 11:30ish and saw that my parents were just arriving, and also they were in the secret cow level in Diablo II. Dang! I finished watching then had a ham sammich and some dorits while mum and dad moved the trailer, since apparently even having it in the driveway is illegal, 'cause it's visible. HOAs can suck a fat cock!

They came back and we loaded the boat up, going in and out of the house getting stuff ready and getting some warm clothes together for the trip. Eventually we were all packed and had the boat in the water, and with all of us crammed in, and headed out to the islands!

The first place we stopped was in a very small inlet that required us to carefully troll through a mangrove channel before opening up into a place called Grassy Bay. Dad troll-motored toward the bank and let mum and Chloe and me out. We walked the beach, and I kept my shoes off because I'm a dolt. Mum wisely put hers on.

As we walked she complained about my uncle Tom, and her complaints weren't unfounded. He's always been a bit of a financial mooch (okay, very much so!), but that's understandable. What she hates is how lazy he is and how quickly he tries to get out of work. They're paying for him to go with the brothers on a fishing trip, and she said she thought he'd be thankful for the opportunity and want to help out with some of the work, but instead just rushed inside when they arrived at grandma's just so he could eat. What's more, dad and the other brothers enable him.

I told mum that the brothers tend to do that because they have such good memories of old-times, and fail to hold one another to a higher standard. Sour memories of the New Year's party flooded my mind.

We continued walking some ways and I checked the map, but saw we were still WAYYYYY far from the end. We turned around and I put my shoes on, and man that was a huge improvement.

We made our way back and went to the boat, where we slowly trawled through the bay and canal before heading south. I directed dad by studying my map, and going about 8 MPH due to the carborator being poop, we made it to the beach on the south end of the 2nd island around 5ish. I helped them beach, then finished my second beer, grabbed my shoes and bag, and headed into the woods.

The first 30 feet or so were super thicc with trees, but after that the land became a mangrove swamp with black mud and those weird soft roots that mangroves use to breathe. I traipsed through the area being careful of snakes, then when the cache app lost internet connection I switched to offline mode. Truthfully I probably didn't need it, since I was already honing in on the tree in question, but I followed the coords anyway...AND MADE THE FIND!

It was in a plastic water bottle sorta thing and hanging from a 2x4 and latched to a tree. Inside I found 2 plastic coins (I took one) and a set of batteries that had been vacuum sealed and dated to 2013. Dang! I signed the log and feeling quite excited, made my way back. I showed them the pic I took and kinda hung around the boat as dad slowly meandered back. We left around 5:20 and made our way toward Marco, and along the way, we saw four dolphins: two pairs, and one pair was within 20 feet of our boat! One of the dolphins most distant from us had a fin that looked like a chunk had been bitten off it, and one of the nearer ones had a slice in his fin, perhaps from a prop.

We watched them and kicked it toward Marco, watching birds fly around (Mum confused some markers for birds, tho they did have beak-like additions to them.) and arrived as the Sun was getting super dark around 6:15. I went inside and after about 5 minutes grandma and I helped get grandpa ready for the night. Grandma told me that earlier that morning grandpa's old partner George, who had been in and out of the hospital the past few weeks, finally passed. He was 92. She said she told grandpa. Oof. We changed him and then I gave him pudding, then around 6:55ish I took a shower with Chloe. She was a smelly doggie but I sang her Smashmouth and Piano Man while cleaning her and that helped!

After, we decided what we wanted to eat from Michelbob's, so I took the menu around the house and we all decided we wanted a #2: half a rack of ribs, pulled pork, baked potate, beans, texas toast, and coleslaw. I drove up there and tried to take a back-way, but found it didn't connect so parked in a distant lot. Also I was barefoot since my shoes were wet. I also found a back alley on the way but I paid (90.90), got a $10 gift card since they were giving those to anyone who spent more than $50. I headed home and we ate while watching Jeopardy, then I cleaned up and spent some time doing a little types. I nebulized grandpa around 8:23ish and mum, dad, and Tom left soon after. I headed back to my room and watched AGDQ TAS and Super Mario Water. I wound up playing some Breath of the Wild and getting inventory upgrades while FF9 started, then headed to bed around 1ish.

I hope everyone has a 5/5 find day! <333