Florida Fun

Just a few quick highlights from our Florida trip...

We took a little walk through the Turkey Creek Wildlife Sanctuary. It has a nice boardwalk and provides the opportunity to see many different animals. We lucked out with an armadillo and several turtles swimming in the river, but didn't see any alligators or manatee. Logan really did have fun (even though the picture doesn't actually show it), but it was plenty hot out.

We spent a day at SeaWorld and thoroughly enjoyed it. We thought Logan might like riding a sea creature on the carousel. We were wrong. But, after some tears were shed, we moved to the bench, and he got a huge smile on his face each time he saw his dad as we came around and around.

Garrick rode the new Manta ride with his bro-in-law, Mike, and niece, Sydney. They are on the bottom row of this picture. I got my guts up and rode the Atlantis (the water ride). Sydney was nice enough to hold my hand so that I could make it through. In return, I agreed to sit in the front row with her. That meant that we would get wetter than everyone else. We did! I was completely drenched!

Here we are posing with Sydney and Jake.

Logan's favorite part was the splash pad where he happily ran through the water with a bunch of kids that he didn't even know.

Watching the dolphin show (0ur favorite one) with Logan. Notice how hot he was. This was first thing in the morning! (Now you can see why he liked the splash pad so much.) Logan sat on my lap through the whole show and loved it!

Garrick's sister, Kendra; her husband, Mike; and Sydney and Jake watching the dolphin show.

We went to the beach a couple of times and LOVED it! It was perfect weather, and we had great boogie-boarding waves! Logan loved playing in the sand and in the water. His only frustration was that we wouldn't let him tackle the waves by himself.

We spent one evening watching sea turtles come up and lay their eggs. Wow! That was an incredible experience!

It looks like this gal is treking back to the ocean, but you can see the tracks she's leaving behind. That's how you find the turtles if you don't see them come out of the water. You look for their tracks. If you see two sets of tracks, you know that they've come out of the water, laid their eggs, and headed back already. If you only see one set of tracks, then the turtle is in the process of digging her hole or laying her eggs, and you can follow her tracks up to watch her.

Laying her eggs.Covering up her eggs. Headed back to sea.

As you can probably tell, we had a great time. Thanks, Kendra and Mike, Sydney and Jake!