Florida, Day 1

For our annual trip to Florida to visit Omi and Opa, we had to be a bit more creative this year.  Since Cameron is in school now, we can't just take off whenever we want for as long as we want.  Well, I guess we can, but we felt bad about taking him out of school again after we already had for 10 days in October!  We ended up flying out on Thursday afternoon after Cameron got out of school.  We flew into Tampa and arrived around 9pm, so we rented a car for the night and drove down to Siesta Key.  The kids fell asleep in the car and slept while we brought them up to the condo and put them to bed.  It worked out quite well.

On Friday morning it was a bit chilly (well, chilly for Florida... I think it was in the high 50s, low 60s) so we decided to return the car and then go for a walk.  We did some geocaching, stopped at the drug store to buy a few things, then walked back to the condo.  It was a very nice day for a walk - sunny and not too breezy.

One of the things we bought at the drug store was sunglasses for Cameron and Tim.  It was a good thing we did because it was really sunny.

We found an awesome banyan tree while we were walking.  Cam was fascinated by it.

Who wants to ride in the stroller when there are balance beams to walk on?

Cam thought that Leah had a pretty good idea.

Artsy flower shot

When we got back from our walk, we ate some lunch and then headed down to the pool.  It was a bit chilly outside but we had to swim on our first day in Florida!

Leah is so darn cute in her little swim cover up!!

Before we headed to Florida, we got some new summer clothes and swimsuits out.  Cam was very excited about his new swimsuit that had cool sharks on it.

Very excited to get into the pool

Brrrr, it was a little bit chilly.  Check out the background - not a single person on the pool deck!

Happy to be swimming in Florida!

Swimming with Daddy

Daddy and kiddos

Leah got cold pretty quickly, so she came out and got wrapped up in her pink towel.

Cam and Daddy swam for a while longer, but even they got cold pretty quickly.

We headed back up to the condo for dinner and playing, then went to bed kind of early.  The weather forecast for the rest of our trip looked good, so we wanted to be rested up for lots of swimming and playing on the beach!