To say goodbye to a whole bunch of friends who are moving this summer we decided to do the four hour float down the Colorado River. So much fun. Beer, jello shots and more beer. Good times
Brenden was able to have a party at Aunt Kristen's house before our trip to Florida, celebrate his actual birthday in Florida and have a pirate party back in Yuma when we got back. That is a lot of celebrating for a four year old!
Birthday boy in California at Aunt Kristin's house
Fort Barrancas
sits on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Pensacola Bay. The natural
advantages of this location have inspired engineers of three nations to
build forts. The British built the Royal Navy Redoubt here in 1763 of
earth and logs. The Spanish built two forts here around 1797. Bateria de
San Antonio was a masonry water battery at the foot of the bluff. Above
it was earth and log Fort San Carlos de Barrancas. American engineers
remodeled the Water Battery in 1840 and built a masonry fort on the
bluff between 1839 and 1844, connected by a tunnel to the Water Battery.
This is the current Fort Barrancas. A $1.2 million, eighteen-month
restoration project led to its reopening in 1980.