Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Florida Keys - OVERLOAD!

After going through nearly 600 pics from our vacation in the Keys I finally have them narrowed down to a few of my favorites. It sure was a great time with great people. Here it goes - vacation OVERLOAD!

The kid's first airplane ride - they were SO excited!

Key West Day - we got heckled by nice man (insert sarcasm) who hollered, "Look at that - they have a squad of kids!"


The Theatre of the Sea was an awesome experience. The kids got to "meet" the dolphins and sea lion.




Cael and Avery are watching the feeding of the Nurse Sharks!




Life at the beach - We visited a couple of different beaches on vacation and Cael & Avery had a blast! Gabe ended up eating a lot of sand at the beach - not so much fun for a mobile baby. Corbin dug a hole deep enough for Cael to stand in and instead of a sand castle they built a sand volcano.









Gabe all tuckered out from the beach

We did a lot of lizard "hunting".

We took the kids to the Sea Turtle Hospital. It was fun and very educational. Cael was super interested in the Turtle Hospital. Avery bailed towards the end of the program, but she was a trooper as it lasted almost 90 minutes!
We painted coconuts and then sent them home in the mail for about $19. Betcha didn't know that you could mail coconuts in the regular post mail? The kids loved getting a piece of the Keys in the mail once we were back home freezing in the snow.


The beautiful vacation house

We celebrated Christmas on our last night by going out to a wonderful ocean front restaurant.
Our crew
The Family
Silly Gabriel on the plane ride home - perhaps he was laughing at Mr. Smooth who got busted for smoking in the lavatory. In case you wondered, the police really escort you off the plane if you choose to smoke during flight!
Cael was so tired that he feel asleep on the chair in the Des Monies airport while Corbin was digging our car out of lots & lots of snow


We had a fantastic time on our first family vacation. I wonder where we will go next year???


1 comment:

Choose Joy said...

I think the last picture of Cael in the airport is priceless! If only I could sleep like that!