Jared and I went to Florida last week!!! I have a cousin (who was my roommate in college) who lives there with her family. Her hubby is going to school to be a Nurse Anesthetist. They live in Bonita Springs, which is near Naples and Fort Myers on the South western gulf coast of Florida. They were kind enough to let us stay with them for a few days. We arrived Wednesday morning and went to the beach. It was gorgeous. They have some friends who have a house right on the beach, so it was very private. So nice!
Our camera memory card died, so we lost some of our pictures of the first day. Jared had a blast trying to learn how to body board. The waves were pretty big because a storm was coming in. Usually this beach is very calm.
We also went to Sanibel island and saw a lighthouse and another beach that had tons of shells on it. A lot of the beaches on the gulf coast are very shelly. It was fun exploring!
We drove up to Siesta Key which is about an hour away. It had beautiful beaches and the waves were huge because a cold front had come in. Cold, meaning 65-70 degrees, which is warm for us!
I've never seen anything quite so beautiful! White sand stretched on for miles!
The last day we went to Marco island with my cousin and her family. The giant waves from the storm had washed up all kinds of treasures onto the beach. We found star fish, octopus, horseshoe crabs, and every kind of shell you can think of.
Two of my cousins girls.
My cousin and her family.
BFF''s forever~ I have so many great memories with this girl!
We saw plenty of these guys while we were there. We even drove down a dirt road, (that my cousin told us about), and saw at least 20 alligators in the wild. It was creepy!
Air boat ride! It was amazing.
This guys was crazy! I would never get this close to an alligator. Yikes!
Feeding time.
One of our favorite things is eating seafood, which we don't get to enjoy very often living in Utah. We had the best, shrimp, mahi, and sea bass I'd ever tasted! I think we ate seafood everyday! It was fresh from the ocean! Yum Yum!
The foilage was spectacular! Flowers, vines, greenery, moss, everything was growing! While we were on our everglade expedition we found several fruit stands and had some fresh avacados, oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit! Yummy! We even managed to bring home a gunny sack of oranges and grapefruit!
Outside my cousins town house.
Baby gators!
Thanks to Grandma Cable, Aunt Kendra and Uncle Luke, and my sweet neighbor for watching the kids! It was so fun to come home and see them again! It's so nice to get away from the usual day to day things!
5 comments:
Looks like you guys had a great time! How fun to see the beaches...and all the gators - yikes!
Thanks for coming, we had such a great time. You are both so much fun. BFF :) You crack me up. Did your kids like the shells? Thanks for making our place look exciting. We hope you had a relaxing trip amongst our crazy family.
Glad you got to get away and have some fun! Those gators look creepy and scary.
Looks like you had a great time! I don't know how you guys got brave enough to do the airboat thing....what if something happened and you were in a croc and alligator infested place! Too scary to even think about!!
I had no idea you were going there! We just went too, someday I'll get a post on it. Such a fun state :) Looks like you guys had fun!
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