We made it!

Here we are in sunny, warm Flordia! The car ride really wasn't so bad (of course, I got to sleep through most of it, so Josh may have a different story to tell.) As I "tucked" the kids into their carseats and gave them goodnight kisses, Seth giggled, "Mommy this is silly!"

I was grateful for the enormous van- everyone slept pretty well! We arrived in Tampa around 7am, at breakfast, then drove to the beach! We were all veryexcited to shed our shoes and put on crocs and sandles!

We went to Fort De Soto, explored the Fort, then finally got to walk barefoot in the sand!

After telling them to ONLY get their feet wet while they ran along the surf, I said to Josh, "Five minutes and Aggie will be drenched!" Actually it only took her two before she tripped and fell flat on her face in the water! At that point we got on bathing suits and let the kids free!

We stayed the night in Tampa, then drove to Orlando this morning. Josh was glad to leave Tampa. After a....bad experience with one of the toll booths, Josh used TomTom to try to avoid toll roads completely on the way back to the hotel last night. Apparently Tampa has done some major road construction that TomTom did not know about. Well, daddy may not have been happy, but the kinds enjoyed the unexpected trip to the airport!