Vacation is over :(

We went to Cocoa Beach last week to visit Grandma and Papa and the Florida Jansen's. Emily and Louie had a great time playing with their cousins and getting to know Auntie Stacy and Uncle Mark. They had fun with Grandma and Papa too.

Grandma took Emily down to the beach on Tuesday afternoon, when we got back to their condo from the airport. She was very excited to go and get her feet wet in the ocean.

Dan went deep sea fishing on Thursday, it wasn't a great day. He said there were 6-7 foot seas on their way out the 18 miles to the fishing spot. He wasn't fortunate enough to catch anything, big bummer. We were looking forward to a dinner of fresh sea bass or red snapper. Oh well.
On Friday, Louie went down to the beach. It was really windy so we were all covered with sand. Dan had to dunk Lou to get the sand off. We opted to spend the rest of the afternoon playing in the swimming pool out of the wind.

Mark, Jared, Dan, Juli and Emily went to the Ron Jon branded Cape Caribe Resort to swim on Saturday afternoon. We had so much fun. Stacy and Drew joined us later in the day. Emily enjoyed the pool and Dan and Mark took the kiddies down the Lazy River. When Emmy was done swimming, she walked around to EVERYONE in the kiddie pool area and said "hi." We estimated she said about 150 "hi's" that afternoon. It was a fun day!

Sunday afternoon, we met the cousins over at FishLips to watch the cruise ships set sail. Uncle Mark and Drew had seen them all arrive very early that morning, around 5:30. Emily said "bye" to everyone as they were passing by. The Disney cruise ship blew his horn on their way by, it sounded like "When You Wish Upon a Star."

It looks like Huey, Louie and Dewey are trying to escape the cruise ship!

It was a cool and windy day again on Monday, so we headed back to the indoor play area at the Ron Jon Resort. While we were there, a man came through with a baby alligator (2.5 years old) for the kids to hold. He liked Louie's zoo keeper outfit and thought he should have a chance to hold the gator too. Emily admired a possible future pair of shoes or perhaps a purse?

















Vacation ended on Tuesday morning when we had our flight home. It wasn't the best of times, but thanks to Jared loaning Emily his favorite puppy, the flight was better than many of the other families on the plane.







We had a St. Paul/St. Small moment on the flight home. The same crew flew us down there and the flight attendants couldn't wait to get their hands on Louie. One of them thought that I looked familiar. Turns out, she and I went to Highland Catholic together and were a year apart at Derham. Her name is Kelly and her brother George was in my class. Small world. . . .