Our trip to Florida... Part 2

After the girls's friends' house, we drove to our resort. It was pretty late in the evening and we were feeling pretty blah. But the next morning was fresh and bright. We were ready to SWIM! The resort had seven pools and a big lazy river.  We ended up swimming almost every day.

On Thursday, we went to the beach instead of the pool- finally! We decided to go to Cocoa Beach which was  a little more than an hour away. The kids had a good time playing in the waves.                                                                                 

                  

There were a lot of dead jellyfish.

                                             It was fun but- oh the sand! It stuck to everything. Thankfully there were showers. And bathrooms. Pretty good for seven dollar parking. We ate a delicious lunch of sandwiches and grapes there.



                                  Another neat thing was a sky writer. It was near enough so we could see it from our resort.

                    

                                                   We left our resort on Sunday and spent the whole day driving home. Boy, were we sick of the car when we finally arrived. In spite of the fun, we all glad to be home. The whole thing was a relaxing vacation.

         

Our trip to Florida... Part 1

We got back this Sunday from our trip to Florida! Our trip was quite relaxing overall and we swam everyday at the resort that we stayed at.

We decided to take a two day drive to Kissimee Florida which worked out well.  Saturday (Sept. 4th) we drove most of the day and stopped at a hotel for the night. The only down side to hotels is having to be so careful about bed bugs. But thankfully we didn't have any extra tagalongs. There was a beautiful sunset when we were driving to get dinner (at Crackerbarrel). It was MUCH more beautiful in real life.

On Sunday we went to visit Abby and Maggie's pen pals that they have met twice at our house. We had a fun visit with them including a yummy lunch, super fun jeep ride in the woods, and a rescue of a baby squirrel. They live in the country and there seems to be much excitement at their house.

 The girls took a jeep ride with their friends and their friend's father which felt really fast (even though they were only going about 20 mph)! Later mom, dad, and the boys took another one which was a little more of a "safe" ride.

                                                           The sweet baby squirrel

                                               Mina, Maggie, Marelle, Abby, and Leah
 

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