Trip to Florida

We went to Florida last week, and I am so far behind on the blog that it is hard for me to even try to get caught up, so I am going to post about Florida then we will see after that. Also I don't have all the pictures because I forgot to get them from my Mom's camera, so maybe I will have to put more picture on later.
On Saturday we went to the beach when we got there. James hated the waves, but Doug loved them. James was pretty funny about getting too close and when we finally got him distracted from the waves he had fun playing in the sand, but once he remembered the waves he was gone! Monday morning, very early, Doug and I left the kids and drove to Tampa to go to Busch Gardens for two days. The park was a lot cheaper then Disney World, but we wish we would have just spent the money and gone to Disney. It wasn't crowded at all so we got to go on as many rides as we wanted as much as we wanted. Before we left on Tuesday Doug rode his favorite roller coaster 7 times without even getting off.
Wednesday we went to the turtle place so James could see some "Nemos and Doris" there were having story time and James enjoyed that. Then we went and got a picnic and took it to the park where we could feed the birds, ducks and turtles.

James liked throwing the bread in the water, but I don't really know if he understood that he was feeding the ducks and turtles.

Thursday we spent the morning at the beach. James was brave and got in the water in a little boat that my parents had. He was starting to really enjoy the waves and liked "riding" them back and fourth between Dad and Grandad when a big one came and Dad missed catching him and he rode the wave all the way into the beach. We were really glad he didn't tip over, but he was done with the boat after that. He did go back into the water but wanted Mom to hold him, not understanding that it was safer with Dad because Mom couldn't touch the ground when the waves came.

That night we went to a really fun restaurant on the beach. This is the best I think James has ever been eating out. He didn't eat but just sat in his chair looking at the water.

We had a lot of fun, it was a really cool place.

After we walked along the dock, you can drive your boat right up to the restaurant.

On Friday we went to the Everglades which is really cool and really pretty. We went on an air boat ride, Doug really liked it when we went two years ago, but it wasn't as cool this year. There weren't any alligators out because the water was so high they could go wherever they wanted.

James loved the boat, until it turned on, then he was content to snuggle with Grammy. Michael didn't like it at all, and finally fell asleep.

Doug got to go golfing twice, which he loved. James and me loved swimming in the pool. And James especially loved "surfs up" that is basically anything to do with something that looks like a surf board.