To Florida and Back

Another "blog from the past", our Florida trip. We went the week of the 4th of July. We had a great time. It was a little different because Jordan couldn't make it because of his new job, but we still had a good time. My mom and sister went with us. When we go to Florida we stay at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola (my dad was military). Anyway, it is neat to stay here because I have been going to the same place since I was the boys' ages. It is such a "boy" place. Fort Barrancas is there, that is where they kept Geronimo (the Indian). There is an Imax on the base and our fave is that the Navy Blue Angels are stationed there and they do practice over the beach that we stay on. So we get free shows. They are very difficult to photograph, but after many, many tries...I got a few. After the show one day we went to the Naval Aviation museum and Caleb got to meet the pilots. Here are some of those pics.

Enjoy...

These planes are hanging from the roof of the museum...and are much easier to photo.

Caleb with the Pilot...

Eli gave us a pretty good scare, he just disappeared. We found him in here. The museum has a ton of old war airplanes that you can climb in and on and push all the buttons. Here are the boys flyin'.

This Florida experience was a little better than in the past because Micah is finally okay with touching sand (yes he had a phobia, which was fun) and Caleb has finally put to rest his irrational fear of being eating by a barracuda in the ocean (thank you Nemo). The weather was fabulous; not to hot and no rain. There were however some pretty big storms the week before we got there and with that come the jellies. I'm talking the big guys. Big heads and long tentacles. The boys were thrilled. They spent most of their time torturing jellies and this crab.

Not to say it didn't come with a price, Eli was pinched by the crab he picked up with his bare hand and stung at least 3 times while catching jellies (once across the face). He kept saying that a horseflys bit him...he just didn't get it.

Our condo is on the bay side, which is more private and has smaller waves. But we drive over to the gulf side for the big waves, Caleb had a blast.

Eli actually loves to be covered head to toe in sand. I have really never met anyone like that. He dumps it over his own head and usually gets it in his eyes.

By the end of it, we were tired...

But we had fun.

On a side note (and to anyone with a 4 year old), is this normal?

Maybe a phase? I can only hope.