This week we took a little road trip up the coast of
Florida to visit a few old friends. It was great to visit with David, a high school friend who now lives in
Satellite Beach with his two boys. The kids had fun playing, and David and I marveled at how we look exactly like we did 30 years ago. See? Ok, Not.
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| 2013 |
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| 1980 |
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| The boys with David and Zeus, super-cool cat. |
While on the "
Space Coast" we visited the local beach, and a nice nature trail where the boys chased lizards and tortoises, and discovered spanish moss.
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| Mossy. |
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Each little turtle baby has his own little container. The scientists here are doing research on gender.
Warm nests tend to produce females and cooler nests produce males. |
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| Looking down on the baby turtle area. |
Nearby is a
nature trail with a 360 degree outlook point, up about 4000 stairs.
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| Almost 40 feet up, and a 360 degree view! |
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A launch pad this high is a great opportunity to see how far spit can fall.
(If you look closely you can see the spittle. Soooo cool! If you are a boy.) |
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| The spittle brothers enjoying an Atlantic Ocean view. |
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| Becca and the boys, 2013. |
From there we headed to Ft. Lauderdale to have dinner with our dear friend Rebecca. We became friends with Bec back 20 years ago when we were cruising on our boat in Mexico. Cruising tends to create deep friendships very quickly. Bec is proof of that.
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Rebecca- at the back of the inflatable, back in the day - 1993.
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Road trips can be exhausting. So it was with a great sigh of relief that we settled into our hotel for the evening, followed by a morning swim. Our lovely hotel was located right on the waterway. I began to feel just a touch of what it must be like to be a
Real Housewife of Miami, lounging by the pool with my lap dog. (Wait, is that Mama Elsa Patton in that cabana??)
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| Our room with a view. |
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| Sophie lounges poolside. |
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| Underwater camera testing. |
And so it was, after a few days of Florida road-tripping we find ourselves meandering down the Keys toward our "home" in Key West. We stopped by one of our favorite road-side attractions - Keys Fisheries - where we loaded up on fried hogfish and chips with a Key Lime Pie chaser.
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| Sophie and Brady pose for a shot. |
And as enjoyable as our little road trip was, as we settled in on the boat we realized once again that there's no place like home.
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| Journal writing time. |
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