Love taking trips to South Florida!!!

This May we went with Katie, Adam, Sam and Jack to Florida. They had the opportunity to fly to Florida, visit for a day and then take a cruise to the Bahamas for 3 days and 2 nights, Daniel and I took care of the little boys while they went on the cruise. We had a great time because the boys are so much fun and very sweet. When Adam and Katie returned we took them to visit some of our favorite places for a couple of days and then they were off to Disney World for fun as a family. Daniel and I stayed in a great place on Ft. Lauderdale Blvd. for most of our visit and one night in our new favorite hotel on Miami Beach, Grand Beach Hotel. I love that Daniel can find the best deals to make doing something like this low stress and very fun!!!
Flying took about 7 hours with a lay over in Denver. Sam and Jack were equipped with snacks and all kinds of entertainment, they were perfectly behaved and Jack even took an hour nap.

Jack didn't like the sand at first so we gave him some time to warm up to the experience. Daniel and I talked about how interesting it was to watch the boys acclimate. As Floridians we took Dano to the beach when he was a week old, he stayed under an umbrella and slept and I'm not really sure why we took him when he was so tiny other than we wanted him to love what we loved!!!

Sam was excited about every part of the experiences we introduced to him. He enjoyed the sand, the water, the breeze and that was just on the beach. In the resort he loved the room, the elevator and all the buttons after the boys left Daniel and I felt a little lost. The boys added really fun energy to every thing we did with them.

We took time to go visit my wonderful aunt. Tia China has had some serious health problems and I loved taking the boys to show them off. I found my sweet aunt looking much better than I thought and much to my surprise two of my cousins made arrangements to take time off work and come see us at her house. I felt honored that they would make the sacrifice. I guess it was very characteristic of my father's side of the family to go to extra trouble and come and bring home made key lime pie, it was creamy and delicious.

Nexxt Cafe made us all happy!

We went out to the Everglades looking for Alligators we finally found a pier and dock for airboats that had a free show where they had very lazy gators.

By the last day at the beach Jack was having fun. . .even naughty fun!
This was the amazing view from our room at the Grand Beach Hotel, it felt as great as it looked. I love vacationing in south Florida and look forward to sharing it with all of you!