Vacation!

We decided to spend my last week of summer break in style by visiting my sister and her family in Florida and then heading on a cruise to the Bahamas. We had a wonderful time with no access to email so we didn't think about work the whole time! The first thing we did when we got home was start trying to figure out when we can take another vacation!

We started our time in Florida with a day trip to Naples. We got to see dolphins from the pier and swim in very warm ocean water. We found lots of nice sea shells including some with some exciting "fighting conchs" inside.

The next day we went to the Miami zoo. Stacie and Tony rented a four person pedal cart and we had a lots of fun exploring the very large zoo!

On Sunday we went to church and had some time to play games and relax a little. We tried to convince our nieces and nephews they liked our butternut squash lasagne we made for dinner, but I'm not sure we were sucessful!

Monday morning the kids went back to school! Rylee to her first day of second grade and Eric off to preschool.

The other kids decided they needed to go to school too!

We convinced them to stay home, but Paige started insisting she was Rylee and we played school all morning.

Sam decided he was content to stay home and drive his truck around.

He wonders why we think we needed a picture of this moment!

That afternoon Tony drove us to the Port of Miami and we headed off on our cruise!

It was so nice not having to worry about anything for a few days!

Our first stop was the grand Bahama Island where we went to a beach with the most wonderful sand in the world! We wandered around the straw marked and other shops, and we tried to get used to seeing people driving on the left side of the road.

I had my hair French braided, which was very painful since I have a very tender head, but It was fun and convenient since it lasted for a couple of days.

Day two was Freeport. Again we spent time exploring the town and then we took a boat out to snorkel near a tiny little island called Athol island.

This is the supreme court of the Bahamas. They had a broken window but they wouldn't let us inside because our t-shirts and shorts weren't nice enough!

Day 3 was spent on the beach of Norwegian cruise line's private island.

we had such a great time! We aren't sure how we will go back to work tomorrow!!