Florida

I spent almost 2 weeks in Florida. First I went to Tampa to visit one of my best friends. I stayed with her for 4 days. We went to the beach, aquarium, pool time in her pool and most important time to catch up. It was wonderful. She has 3 kids and Alyssa was in heaven playing all day long.  Then Russ flew in and we drove to Orlando. We went to Sea World's water park Aquatica. It had a few sections specifically for younger kids with small slides. That day it thunder stormed a lot but would pass by after 30 min or so and we could get in the water again. Then we drove to Panama City which is on the panhandle of Florida. It was a long drive (6hrs). We meet the rest of my family at the beach house. We spent the next week at the beach house. The beach was beautiful. Perfect soft white sand, green water, gentle waves. Alyssa learned how to boogie board. We played at the beach for 2 days. Then a huge storm came and it rained the rest of the trip. This rain was a flooding, pouring type of rain and it never let up. One ay we had a break in the storm for 2 hours and we ran to the beach even though it was windy we took advantage of it. Sadly I only brought my camera to the beach on the windy day so I don't have any good pictures of the beautiful sand and ocean. When the storm came it messed up the water and turned it brown and also created a brown dike coke looking foam. We played lots of games in the house. It was fun to hang out with my whole family!

board walk to the beach

Kate loved the beach

Whole family with Russ behind the camera

Noelle I had to post this because it is just to funny

In the sea foam

Kate loved the golf cart and beach chairs!

This doesn't do the sea foam justice. It really looked like someone shook up a bottle of diet coke and poured it the ocean