Olivia and I made it back safely from FL. We drove 17 straight hours on the trip down but on the way back stopped in VA overnight and then made the rest of the trip. We went with a friend of ours that lives in PA & whose parents live near mine. She has a little girl the same age as Olivia. The girls did great, better than I could have ever thought two kids would do riding in a car that long. They played with barbies, colored, played their Leapsters and played on our phones. Well lets just say I learned my lesson about allowing Olivia to play the "free" games on my iPhone. They are not so free after she clicked upgrades within the games racking up over $125 worth of games! Apple was kind enough to remove the charges and we changed the settings to no longer allow in app upgrades.
Here are a few pictures of the journey and the week with my parents.
The girls looked forward to Mindy leading exercises whenever we stopped. Seriously these girls played non-stop. Laughing most of the trip and only asked a few times "when will we be there?"
Olivia loved going out in the evening to hit golf balls with granddaddy. She is still talking about this and how big their back yard was (she doesn't understand they live on a golf course) Also, my parents live in a community that drives golf carts around their community. They have golf cart parking at Wal-mart and the grocery stores.
We stayed busy all week, going to the State Fair, strawberry picking, manatee watching, going to the zoo, shopping, going to a sea food festival, taking a tour at my parents community with all the activities they keep very busy with during the week. We had such a good time talking and catching up and spoiling my little "sweet pea" to the core!
I just love this picture, My dad is pointing at fish in the tank.
It was great to catch up with some friends in the area. Small world we live in! Met up with Angela and Dale for lunch. It was nice to sit and talk & so good to hug their necks. Also, one of my friends from High School, Emily lives very close to my parents. It was so sweet to sit and catch up as if time had never passed by.
I think he wanted lunch!
Not a good idea to get in the way of this little fella
We got so close to the animals at the Zoo. We stayed at the zoo all day and walked a lot. Olivia studied each and every exhibit...we just might have another animal lover in our home besides Maddy.
One of her favorite moments at the Zoo!
She was like.... "Mom, for real??" It's winter time and we are in bathing suits?
After a week of shorts, flip-flops and sand we are excited spring is only
18 days away,
2 weeks 4.654days
26862 minutes
1.612x10^6 seconds
...but really who is keeping track?
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