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Off to Florida today! I know you’ll miss me! I’ll be back in a week with many pictures of the beautiful, hot state. I’ll also upload pictures from the beach that I didn’t get to this week as I was unpacking, washing, and repacking… plus working every day. Anywho, I’m off!!!
While I was laying in bed this morning at 4:00, I didn’t realise it would be one of those days. Ya know, one of those this has to be what heaven looks like days. Or, from a non-religious stand point, one of those humbling days that make you feel like a spec of sand compared to the beauty of our world. I woke up at 4 am this morning and was pissed, because I was having one of those really deep sleeps that can keep you dead until 2:00pm. So after laying there for an hour trying to fall back asleep, I gave up. What can I do until its time to wake Dad up for our morning kayak ride? Watch the sun rise! What a great way to spend the last day here!
So, after asking Dad if he wanted to join me on my morning adventure and getting groaned at, I proceeded to get dressed, braid my hair, brush my teeth and after grabbing the camera out the door I went. I went jogging down the street to the beach, afraid by the light sky that I may have missed the key of my adventure. When I got to the shore, I was releived to find the sun still hiding behind the ocean. The snow crabs were still out and about, ready to watch the sunrise with me. A group of seagulls were standing on the shore watching too, and let me snap a few pictures. The beach was bare, with but one empty beach chair in sight. It was me, the snow crabs, and the gulls there this morning to welcome the sun to a new day.
Before I left the house I got on the computer to check the sunrise time. 6:00 sharp. I looked at my phone to see how the sun matched up with the time given by weather.com. It was 5:56, and I had started to see a red sun peek up from behind the horizon. By 6:18 the sun was full over the horizon, the dophins were beginning to play, the snow crabs back to their holes in the sand, and the gulls off to fetch breakfast. I stayed, walking along the beach, enjoying the quiet morning before it was time to head back to the house to get Dad up.
Sigh. I can’t think of a better way to start a day. Hope your day started as good as mine!
We forgot to bring the camera cord with us, so I can’t load the pictures until we get home tomorrow. I’ll do my best to have them up by the end of the weekend.
Happy Friday!!
…and for the adults of my family, its here! At Sandbridge Beach, VA. We got here Sat. afternoon and will be returning home this Sat. morning. Upon returning home, a week of work and laundry are ahead of me to get ready to leave again next Sat. for the wonderful, sunny Florida! But for right now, Sandbridge is just fine. We have a 6 bedroom beach house right on the Back Bay, and just one block away from the ocean. The cleaning ladies told us that we have the second best view of the bay. The owners of this house also own the house that has the best view, so second best is fine with me! Our days here have consisted mostly of kayaking along the bay in the morning, spending the afternoon on the beach, and enjoying dinner in our screened-in porch overlooking the bay. After dinner, some of us have taken the kayak out for a short spin to the opening of the bay from our canal. The best part of this being that my mother, the wine lover that she is, likes to sit in the front of the kayak while my middle brother, Kevin, floats her around while she drinks her wine. This hasn’t happened the past two nights due to the fact that on Monday, attempting to get out of the kayak slightly intoxicated, mom took a spill resulting in soaked clothes and a few bruises.
All in all, the trip has been great. The boy wasn’t able to join us, so we left him home to water the garden 
What a great girlfriend, eh? Anyway, I don’t have the weekend words for this week but I do have some pictures from our vacation so far!
Bushel O’ Crabs
View from the deck
Crooked view from the deck
Another view
Mom and Kevin, out for a blurry, intoxicated stroll.
She does like her wine…
Ready to get out
That about does it for today. It’s about time for me to turn in for the night. Tomorrow? A 6am kayak ride with Dad, then hanging out on the beach for the rest of the day. Maybe I’ll get around to another post, but maybe not.
So, on July 28th the boy and I are leaving for the lovely little town of Mount Dora, FL. His grandparents are flying us down for a week as part of my graduation present. Pop-Jim (grand-dad) said he would pay for a one-day pass to any amusement park we want to go to while we’re there, be it Disney, Universal, Sea World, etc. We deffinately know we want to go to either Disney or Universal and do the park hopper thing. But, since we can only afford to go for one day with everything else we have planned for the week, we can’t decide which parks to go to! Pop-Jim made the offer to pay for us to go see the Blue Man Group so we’re left paying for the other stuff. For all the Orlando fans, I was wondering if anyone had and suggestions on which option we would get the most out of? When we were there two years ago we went to the Magical Kingdom so we would almost rather do something else, but we’re totally up for suggestions!
So, to recap, we’re chosing from a one day Disney park hopper (Magical Kingdom, Epcot, MGM, and Animal Kingdom) or the Universal Orlando one day park hopper (Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure).
Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated!
