The Crazy Month!

Hold on to your hats, I've got a lot of blogging to catch up on! I know most of you have seen at least a few pictures from our month of travels, but this is sort of my way of 'scrapbooking' things. I often refer back to the blog when I do actually get around to working on our books, for proper dates and small details that get lost in the back of my mind. So after the weekend of Mid-Atlantic History we spent a week in Ft. Lauderdale, where Aaron had some training for work. We spent a lot of time on the beach, of course, but we also took a trip through the Everglades, visited some state parks, learned about new animals and plants, and did some sightseeing among the mansions of the "Venice of the U.S." A cute nickname for Ft. Lauderdale, but we really did enjoy all the intracoastal waterways.

 Ready for the beach.

 State park on the coast, pretty drive and a cool tunnel to walk under the road out to the shore.

 Walking trails, that would have been cool except for all the very large spiders in the trees.

 So impressed to get to tide up front at 5 mph through the park.

 Sea grapes, apparently when ripe they taste like muscadines?

 Shell collector extraordinaire!

 Playing tag with the waves.

 More lessons in science, a washed up jellyfish.

 Baby footprints are too sweet!

 You can see the sunscreen streaks, but at least I got it on him.

 Levi finally just lay down and let the waves wash over him.

 Can you tell what the boys are headed for?

 Wild Iguana!

A couple seconds after this shot Isaiah lost his lunch, with this expression I should have seen it coming. Maybe a bit too much sun?

 Levi got into that relaxed beach groove.

After the iguana I no longer minded that these guys were running around....ALL over the place.