There are no pictures from day one, day one was exhausting.....we took a 11:55 pm flight to Atlanta. First when I am at work on a airplane, all I want to do is sleep sometimes, and then the times that I actually can I CAN'T!! so frustrating! There were more than one hundred seats open....also I figured out why the flights were so full this week, there were 15,000 DECA students in town for some competition, Ben actually went and had to judge for some of the sections.
We landed in Atlanta 5:30 am their time but 3:30 Utah time {painful} trying to get 4 really sleepy kids to walk through an airport. Kessler completely shut down, he was crying about not hooking his pillow on his suitcase right, he would cry about anything...I mean anything. But as soon as he laid down on the bench he was out. Same thing started again, we we had to wake him up to take the 7:30 (5:30 Utah time) flight to Fort Lauderdale.
We made it to our hotel and took a 4 hour nap.
His face has not been clean since we got here..... Cheetos, donuts, juice stains, ketchup, mustard.....you name it.
We visited a John Lloyd state park today and the waters were closed because of jelly fish, they were scattered all over the beach as well.
The long pier where lots of people fishing.
This crab he is holding is dead. His face still looks freaked out:)
Cooper saw the big waves splashing on the rocks and wanted to cool off so he went out there and waited and waited for the big splash
not quite
not yet
Finally......he got soaked
Ben saw a live crab and jumped down and grabbed it, it was pinching his fingers, it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, it was like a hot potato. He finally got a hold of it and showed the kids.
I cannot get over this photo, I WISH!!! I would have taken more pictures here, the lighting was amazing, I actually just shot this as I was walking out and didn't look at the preview until later.
So far day one and two have been fun. Day three has some more swimming and possibly ocean snorkeling in store. We are driving down to the Florida Keys and might do a snorkeling charter, the kids practiced there snorkeling today in the hotel pool and Bauer even did a pretty great job breathing properly and using the fins. He also took off his life jacket and was able to swim the length of the pool with the mask, breather and fins. He was so cute how happy he was.
BTW....we have been to two Targets in two day as well.......duh .....I feel like they are tourist attractions for us. However Ben leaves all fired up, because he can't believe stores get away with all the stuff they are doing wrong?!?
