L family staycation

As usual there are lots of things I have yet to blog about so pretty soon I am going to stop talking about it - and for now the most recent blog worthy adventures happened last week while we stayed at home on vacation. B is starting his new job on Monday so we explored what we could of central Florida.

Stop #1: Deleon springs, fl home of ponce de Leon's fountain of youth. Here we ate breakfast at a make your own pancakes place in an old sugar mill. P man LOVED IT, pancakes are his favorite breakfast food and he took flipping and serving them very seriously. After our delicious P pancakes we walked around a bit wanting to rent a canoe to look for alligators and manatee but there was no life vest small enough for baby L so we settled for swimming in the 72 degree fresh spring. P and B were brrrr but had fun swimming in the "dirt" as P said since it was a natural spring with a sand floor. It stays the same temperature year round so we will definitely be making a trip back this summer.

Day 2: Downtown Disney. This trip was a little bit of a bust - it sprinkled rain on us most of the more so the train and carousel were not running but we hopped on the boat to take us around and P and L both enjoyed watching for other boats, going under bridges and dancing to the music. We stopped at "port Orleans" which made me jealous of Aunt T who is spending the weekend in NOLA for jazzfest. I am sure she will tell you all about it soon.

Anyway, we played on the playground and then decided to call it a day so we could make it back in time for P's nap attempt :)

Oh! That morning we also has swimming lessons - P is a swimming machine now and will swim completely on his own from one side of the pool to another, it's pretty amazing. Again, maybe T will post since she has the video. L doesn't have swim lessons anymore...my heart couldn't take it so we will try again in late June.

No pictures of day 2...

Day 3: the big finale.... SEA WORLD!!!

Yay yay rushed home from Gulf Breeze to help us with little L at sea world- they have a promotion going you pay for the day and get a pass for the yet. Definitely a good deal, especially for the summer. We saw sea lions, sharks, manta rays, turtles, and obviously the big Shamu show. P made a special friend in Shamu's happy harbor and B and I got a 10 minute date on the manta roller coaster ( side note: before the babes we went to six flags with Lockheed Martin...still ranks in the top top top of fun days together, we love roller coasters).

All in all, success! And we do not feel like we need a vacation from our vacation. Life is good. Still house hunting, but not that hard, summer will be good at a house with a pool.