Florida and The Keys

As I stated before after a 3 hour delay we arrived in Fort Lauderdale, spent the night and  then went to visit Sheldon's cousin, Dana, Jake, and Family in Homestead.  We first went to lunch at a Cuban restaurant (good cultural experience), then onto the Everglades.  There is a drought in Florida so water was low, yet we still saw plenty of gators, and had fun!!!

Catherine & Meagan

Big scary grasshoppers

Yes, Loryn is frightened

Maddy is not

this is an action shot of the double tickle

Amazing Fruit stand on our way home from the Everglades

 With the Best Milkshakes

 And a crazy petting farm --Loryn was thrilled

P90X turtles doing BOAT we were anxious to see BANANA

 GREEN TRACTOR

Next to the Red Tractor

We had so much fun with Dana , then we went to dive in the Keys.  We spent Saturday driving down the Keys,  over big long bridges.  After about an hour we'd seen enough of the beautiful bridges and water.  That afternoon we went on a dive.  It truly was much more amazing then I thought it would be.  We dove in a marine sanctuary John Pennekamp State Park, and there was a lot of marine life.  The first dive we saw a couple beautiful turtles, several eels, a baracuda, and beautiful salt water fish. The second dive we saw a nurse shark. along with everything we saw in the first dive.  Then we waited for about an hour and did our first night dive.  The fish and coral are actually more colorful and bright at night.  Sheldon and the kids loved the dive.  


The next morning we met Dana for church.  We enjoyed her ward.  We were able to wear headphones to translate from Spanish to English.  It was about 50% spanish and 50% english.  It was actually good to be there and see how it worked.


Now onto the boat