Since the last time I posted we had a family trip to Florida. We managed to pick a cold week to visit the relatives in Naples...they had frost warnings while we were there.
DD did have fun on our trip. It was her first flight, so that was cool in so many ways for her. The least fun was sitting and waiting to get on the plane, but she was good about it.
Our first breakfast was interupted by having to go outside to watch the dolphins catching their breakfast in the canal. The first day was also one of the 2 warm days we had, so we of course headed to the beach. On the beach she collected shells and more shells. I think she wanted to take all the shells from the beach.....which was made of shells...so good luck with that LOL.
We then had a few days of not the best weather, being quite cool and windy. My cousin's wife thought that while all the boys were golfing we would take the boat out for a bit and head to a small island for a picnic lunch and more shelling. As we got out of the canals and into the Gulf we realized how rough the water was....DD was enjoying the ups and downs of the boat though.....it was too rough to venture to the island. We did get to watch some more dolphins and some small jellyfish in the canals on our way back to the house and then the kids got to do some swimming in the very large hot tub......yes I said hot tub and kids swam in it...the tub was huge.
DD got to play with tons of new-to-her toys and my cousins' kids, luckily the house is very large and we could remove ourselves from the noise of 5 kids playing loudly with each other.
On our last full day there it was warm again and after all the wind we had for several days some interesting things were washed on shore. We saw horseshoe crab shells and live horseshoe crabs on the beach. We also saw some dehydrated jellyfish (or really big globs left from someone sneezing LOL). We also found sea urchin shells and several pieces of what would have been very large sand dollars.
It was fun to be away, but it was also nice to be back home.
