Great time in Florida this year. We missed Kristin, Cory, PJ and Seb, of course, but made the best of it! Thanks Mom and Dad for an amazing time!
This year we DROVE!!!! That's right, we did an epic road trip in the old Acadia and it was awesome. We stopped at a few neat places on our way down. On the way back we basically drove almost straight through to get home fast.
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| Road trip!! |
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| We stopped at Land Between the Lakes National Park in Kentucky for our first night of our road trip and saw this neat dam. |
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| Hiking in the drizzle to stretch our legs |
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| The boy with no hood on his jacket |
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| Our hotel |
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| Hitting the buffet, hard. |
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| Bookworms. We required breaks from movies and tablets during our road trip. |
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| Stopped in Chattanooga, TN the next day and it was awesome! |
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| Rock City was totally amazing, we loved it1 |
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| Seeing the seven states |
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| World's steepest incline railway - check! |
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| Steep! |
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| We made it to Florida!! Right into the pool and hot tub. |
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| Birthday presents for Grandpa |
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| We brought the paddle board from home - perk of driving, you can bring lots of stuff1 |
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| Reunited and it feels so good. |
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| Sunset cruise |
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| Kelly Baranko: Yahtzee champion!! |
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| Beach babies |
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| Pass-a-Grille |
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| Peel and eat shrimp date with my Dad, of course! |
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| Tampa's Lowry Zoo on Mom's birthday |
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| Loving their new pool float |
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| Birthday dinner for Grandma! |
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| Hitting the park after dinner |
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| A little detour from our intended destination of Ana Maria Island to De Soto National Park, where we went a few years ago. |
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| Lunch at the beautiful dockside restaurant in Bradenton, FL |
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| Stumbled across this little museum in downtown Bradenton |
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| It was Manatee Appreciation Day, so we were happy to see manatees! We actually were interviewed by the local paper: https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article207158204.html |
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| Representin' Iron John's in FL |
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| Dying Easter eggs with Grandma |
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| Readers |
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| Boating with the McClure's |
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| Sending Kristin a pic of the jumper she gave me that I was wearing |
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| Easter Bunny came early to FL! |
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| Last day we hit the Fort de Soto beach |
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| Paddling like a doggy and collecting toys |
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| Our kayak pulling Luke on the paddle board |
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| He paddle boarded himself through the nearby mangroves |
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| Goodbye Florida for another year! |
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| Heading home |
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| After a bit of a hotel snafu outside of Atlanta, we finally ended up at this SUPER shady motel very late at night. It was not ok. This is why we decided to just get up early and drive all the way home the next day. |
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| Home!! |
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| Easter Sunday we went to our new lake house! |
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| Pretty cold back in the Midwest, but Luke still used the slingshot he got at Rock City to fling some rocks into the lake. |
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| Easter dinner at Donna and Emil's |
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| Easter egg hunt |
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