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The past 10 days, the family and I traveled quite a bit! In celebration of a milestone my husband met for his career, and to take a much needed respite, we decided to do some traveling. We traveled in the following states: Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virgina! Phew! In hindsight it was a bit too much for us to have a truly relaxing 'vacation', but we tried to make the best of our time and enjoy one another. We had many many 'follys' during the trip, beginning with the very first night. For example, no electric for heat first night, running out of propane heat in the middle of the night in the mountains of TN, getting to a campsite too late as they had closed, having to move twice after setting up the same day due to conflicts of scheduling with the park, a continuously barking dog who ate her collar twice.. need I go on and on??!! But we had beautiful weather. Here are some pictures of our trip: Our first palm tree sighting! About 100 ft across the border in Florida (from Alabama). Jeff running to get a map!
The beautiful beach! A very nice portion of protected State Park land - no ugly buildings and hardly anyone around!
The boys truly enjoyed themselves - shells and waves!
Making a sand angel! Too cute!
Here is our littlest angel - Liam! How cute, so small.
So many beautiful shells- all different colors, sizes and shapes!
One of the first pictures I took - I'm really here!
Here I am 19 weeks!
A tuckered out toddler getting his rest.
The boys (and Daddy) were fascinated with this little sand crab!
Eating lunch the second day.
We were next to two military bases - a Naval station and an Air Force base. Here is a naval boat coming in - and interesting shot with the kayaker in the foreground!
Here is a passenger ship - so close to shore! We saw it coming in to port near our campsite. The beach is on a peninsula - ocean on one side, and lagoon on the other where the ships dock.
Here the same above vessel coming in to dock. This is our campsite view! It was so beautiful.
Our first official night in Florida, Jeff decided to treat us to a nice night out of 'seafood'. We don't eat seafood, but we will have deep sea scaled fish on a rare occasion. This restaraunt was beautiful so we decided to eat inside the 'ship'.
View from the top - the lagoon and the ocean at the edge of the water.
Inside view - from our table.
Pirates are a no-no in our family, but, Captain Pete works good! Captain Jack!
And ship-mate Liam.
A beautiful sunrise!
We did have the opportunity to visit Sea World for free for the entire family. It would have been over $300! $75 per person! We won't go again, but it was nice for the few hours we were there. Peter ended up getting a fever while we were there. :( But, it worked out for the best as it was quite crowded with 99% Europeans and Aussies! No Americans anywhere - but it is in the middle of the week during school. Here are pictures of the only 'show' we saw - but still too much entertainment for our convictions. Seeing the great animals was beautiful, though.
At the 'waterfall'!
Fishing!! But we don't eat fish! Ha!
Jeff's solution to fishing - a vegan catch! Lol. No, I did not make seaweed patties that night.. Lol
We arrived home last evening and after bathing the children went right to bed! This morning, we had our ultrasound for the new baby. I am 20 weeks now - half way! So hard to believe. And we were so blessed with being able to see a healthy baby. Technology is truly amazing! This afternoon, I didn't do much cleaning, but decided to take advantage of the absolutely beautiful weather we are having. It is upper 60's, warm, sunny, and Autumn is in full swing. We raked leaves all afternoon and the children and I had a grand time. I am looking forward to a nice walk when husband returns home and then to a quiet evening, folding laundry, cleaning, and hopefully some sewing!
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