Zeke, Aaron & JoJo

We kept busy and had some great trips this summer. In May, we had a unseasonably cold and rainy trip to Tybee Island and in June we had the honor of attending my stepsister Rosanne's wedding. In July, we went to North Carolina to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary and in August, we visited my family in Florida. Then, finally, we went to Turks and Caicos for our first big family vacation. (I mean this to say, our first trip as a family just for leisure purposes and not to see family or to get to an event or to rush around by car.)

Going to Turks and Caicos offered a lot of firsts for my boy: first airplane trips, first passport, first boat trip and first time swimming with a wild dolphin. No kidding! A wild dolphin! I only managed to capture a few seconds of it on video as the dolphin was leaving, but you can still get the idea. We took a half-day boat trip and towards the end of the trip the boat stopped at Big Water Cay. Aaron was already headed into the water as the dolphin swam up, but Aaron was fast thinking enough to grab Zeke to meet the dolphin at the back of the boat. The dolphin investigated for a moment and then swam back from where he came.

I love the expression on Aaron's face! Zeke hardly registers that this supercool thing has happened, but at least we have video of it to show him in the future so he can be impressed then.

We are calling the dolphin "JoJo" for the Turks and Caicos wild dolphin who famously comes up to and swims with humans in the area where we stayed. Who knows whether this was actually THE JoJo, but for all practical purposes, it was. I hadn't anticipated that we would actually see JoJo or his small family because of seasonal factors like currents and fish, but it looks like our boat captain found the right place. (Aaron tipped that captain very well, too!)