(We realized we never posted this! Better late than never!) We went all over Florida during the month of February. Why didn’t we have a more organized route? Because February in Florida is CRAZY with snowbirds! We were told in November that if we were planning to go to Florida we better make reservations soon. The problem is, we didn’t know where we wanted to go or when because of other family commitments. So, we started calling when things were more concrete and found out lots of places were booked. We ended up with many 2-4 night stays and did a circle 8 around Florida. Places we stayed: St. Augustine, Tampa, Fort De Soto, Naples, Hollywood, Disneyworld, Fort Pierce, Ocala National Forest, and Santa Rosa Beach. Each were unique in their own way. Some were RV parks where we only had a few feet between our slide and the RV next to us but swimming pools, gyms, bingo and lots of other fun things to do. Others were state or county campgrounds were we had lots of trees and a good amount of space and the beach and nature to entertain us. Things we did: Legoland, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, and DisneyWorld were all on the agenda. These were all in celebration of the kids’ birthdays. The nice part of having kids with birthdays 2 days apart is you get to do their celebrations together. The bad part (for mom) is having cake in the house for a week! Nana and Papa and Aunt Julie and Elliot met us at Disney. It was great to have others to help entertain the kids Lots of beaches! Everywhere we went we checked out the beach. That’s the thing to do in Florida right? The first part of the month was actually pretty cold, so we didn’t spend time in the water, just by the beach. By the end of the month, the kids were actually tired of going to the beach. We’d say let’s go and they’d say NO! I guess we won’t be moving to the beach anytime soon. Seeing Family and Friends. We met up with friends Lynn and Dave, who we first met at Assateague Island in Virginia. They spent the day exploring the fort in St. Augustine with us. We also were able to spend time with Kim’s niece Teagan in Hollywood. The kids were super excited since we hadn’t seen Teagan in at least a year. We also saw Kim’s ex-colleague, Peni and her husband Steve, who are enjoying the sunny retirement life in The Villages. We saw many of the Bezdek side of the family at the 100th birthday party for Aunt Jeri. Many of them we had never met before.
Overall, we had a very busy time in Florida but really enjoyed the sunshine instead of the lots and lots of snow they were getting back home in Oregon!
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