Catching you up.

July!

Family came down and boy was it a busy month. Well, I already posted about our canoe trip and it's already August so I will do the short and sweet version of last month.




Kay and Mom on the 4Th!

 The 4Th of July was a blast! Getting together with family and friends over at Aunt Patty's resort. For a fun day of swimming and bar-b-Que. Catching up with family is always a good time. We had live entertainment via Dylan and Dalton who played guitar, bubbles and fireworks. Couldn't ask for anything better. And I even got a picture of Kay with her eyes open!

GATORLAND

Me and Chris acting like tourists.

Next day we went to Gator land. Talk about nerve wracking. We thought one of those guys was going to loose his hand when they were feeding the alligators and not to mention wrestling them. We had a great time even with all the Florida heat. Definitely a one of a kind experience. 

BEACH



Gary taking the beach home with him.



And of course everyone who comes to Florida must go to the beach. We did some body surfing and sand castle building. All the typical beach things. You can't have a bad day at the beach.

August!

Rain sheeting off of the neighbors shed.

This month started off with a storm out in the Atlantic. Luckily it fell apart and was not much of anything. We did get some really good rain. And there was a water spout spotted in a near by lake. Now we are all just hoping to make it through the heat of August.

Dove that has adopted us as his new home.



Honey suckle that Aunt Gail gave us is really doing well.





Nothing but beautiful sunsets for the rest of the summer.



August is back to school season for us here in Florida and so the summer has almost come to an end. But because it's Florida we will have nice warm weather until at least October. I'm sure we will be out and about some more before it's all over with.

Spring break!

 This week is spring break and about a week before it started all I was hearing was, "We never do annnnythinnng. It's soooo borrrring around here. I don't want to sit around the houuuuse all week. Other people do stuuuuuff. Let's do somethinnnng for sprinnng breaaaaak. So we decided to drag the kid to some of the local spots.

 Rainbow Springs:

 Chris took her to rainbow springs on his day off. They had a lot of fun. Hopefully we can go back and go canoeing when it's all of us. The spring waters here in Florida are crystal clear and are sought after by bottling company's but in the parks you could swim down to the spring opening with a bottle and bottle your own water. That's how fresh and clean the water is.



Small fish in the spring head.









Man made waterfall



Hontoon Island:



We sat down for a break.







Standing on the edge of the island.



On my day off I went and got Gramme and we went exploring on Hontoon island. Even though we didn't walk that far we could see an example of some Native American totems that were excavated. We talked to some people that were siting on the edge of the island fishing. They said the fishing was pretty good. We had brought a picnic lunch and it was a nice place for it.



The Beach:

Then finally we couldn't stay away... we went to the beach. The water hadn't warmed up yet and with the wind blowing, it  was too cold to do any swimming.



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Chris did some kite flying.

 Veronica tried to go swimming but it was just too cold.

This guy kept us entertained. We named him fatty. Looks like he's saying "Hey baby"




The Beach

New Symrna

I've been on Vacation this week. So we decided to pack up the car and head out to the beach Saturday. Veronica grabbed a friend and we ended up going to New Smyrna. It's just south of Daytona. It has that same powder white sand as Daytona and we like it better. It's less crowded and cleaner.



We usually see more surfers in New Smyrna but this day everyone seemed to have a surf board or boogie board, including us. We all had a great time riding the waves. The surf was kind of ruff. I'd say we had about 4 to 6 foot waves. They kept dragging us down the beach. The kids rode their boogie boards all the way in a couple of times.
Storm clouds started to gather so we figured it was a good time to get dinner. We always enjoy Manny's pizza and Greek salad. Of course we were all freezing from being wet. But the pizza was just as good.