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We have returned

For those of you who didn't know, we have returned home. (I'm sure that this is a relief for some of you and a warning for others, depending on which end of the country you are on.) Overall, we had a wonderful vacation and really enjoyed spending time with Mike's family. We are proud to report that Mike's mom is on the mend after having back surgery while we were there. According to her it was Madison's wonderful nursing care that helped her feel better. We were also there to celebrate her 50th birthday. (She will die when she finds out that I posted this on our blog. I guess it is a good thing that she isn't allowed to go upstairs to the computer for a few more days.) ;)



I guess that I should give everyone a recap of our vacation. We ended up in Florida a day late because of some weather/mechanical complications with our plane. (Lets just say that a one hour plane ride to Denver became a five hour flight that caused us to miss our connection which left us in Denver for the night. Don't even get me started on the remainder of our airport/ rental car experiences. We spent the first couple of nights in St Petersburg/ Tampa Bay area of Florida. We went to the Dali art museum, the beach, and the clearwater aquarium. The kids fell in love with a dolphin at the aquarium named Winter. The dolphin was trapped in a crab trap line when it was a baby and lost its tail. No worries, the dolphin has adapted and even has a prosthetic tail which it is learning to swim with. We also spent time at the beach.
Next, we headed to Orlando where we went on an air boat ride, visited the city of celebration, went to Disney's Bizzard Beach (A definite must visit), The Blue Man group, and the kids went on a kids night out to Wonderworks with the condos that we stayed in.
We proceeded to Jacksonville from there. We spent time with Mike's parents and Tim, Beverly, and girls. We stayed with Mike's parents and we were able to see Tim and his family several times. Madison is quite excited to have new "girl" cousins to visit and she seems to think that she is the same age. (Note that the girls are twins that are seventeen and one that is eighteen and just graduated) Tim also gave us incredible seats for the Jacksonville Jaguars football game. We had a blast. The seats were about 15 rows up on the 50 yard line. We could have thrown a paper airplane and had it land on the Atlanta players. We spent several days on the beach where the kids enjoyed skim boarding, body surfing, shell hunting, and playing with starfish that they found.

We did spend a couple of days in Savannah, Ga and had a great time walking through the historic distric of downtown Savannah.
Overall, we had a fabulous time! However, we are glad to be back at home. We miss everyone there in Florida and hope that they come out to visit soon. ( We are trying to talk Tim, Beverly, and the girls into coming out for a visit. We would really like to have them in the winter when they could enjoy the snow. )
Of course, it has taken me two weeks to finally finish this post. We started back to work the day after we returned. With school starting this week we have been up to our eyeballs.
Well, enough rambling.

Michelle