A check of the weather news didn't sound too promising for the rest of the day, either, as more storms and showers were predicted to develop in the afternoon. So we decided to take the day off, hang around the room and hotel. Kevin played on his laptop, I read, and John went out fishing on the pier later. Ryan went with him for awhile, then came back and took a nap and I went out for awhile.
Eventually we noticed the lifeguards had put up the No Swimming flag and were directing people out the water. The sky was clear on that side, so we wondered if there had been a (real) shark sighting.
But I didn't see any sharks, and people weren't congregating along the waterline for a shark-spottting like they did in Gulf Shores the time there was a shark sighting there, so I figured maybe the weather was turning bad.
I crossed to the opposite side of the room and opened the *front* door and saw:
What you can't see, because I never was quick enough to catch it, was some awesome cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in the distance.
That storm seemed to be staying to the west of us, moving North, so John and Ryan jogged up the street to a restaurant to grab some dinner-to-go.
When they got back, the sky didn't look as bad, and seemed as though maybe the storm had passed on by. So then me and Ryan ran up the road to the store (Red & White Grocery; I haven't seen one of those in years). We walked out of the store to ZAP! lighting strikes and beginning rain splatters.
John said he watched us run up the road about two blocks away and thought he was going to have to come in the car to get us (reminiscent of our trek to the PO in Steinhatchee), but we made it back okay before this hit:
Finally the storms got done and we were treated to a lovely double-Rainbow:
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