Gator time at Lake Jessup

For Rick's birthday we went to The Black Hammack which is located on Lake Jessup. If you've never heard of Lake Jessup let me fill you in.....it's gator infested! There's more gators in that lake than all the others combined and when they find strays, that's where they bring them to live! So we ended up going on an air boat ride in search of them. I must say I wasn't half as fascinated by the gators as I was the speed of that boat and that thing could turn on a dime! I would do that again in a split second really and would strongly encourage you to be sure to do it if you're ever here for a visit. You go flying over the water and into these swampy coves and as soon as he turns the engine off and it's quiet, all these gators heads pop up out of the water....really freaky! We had so much fun though and afterwards we all got to go back and hold "Pork Chop" the baby gator. Hunter wanted to take him home I think....we had so much fun though and I can't wait to go back again sometime!

Island's of Adventure

Sean's cousin's daughter, Casey, was here visiting for a couple of weeks and so we decided to take a girl's day at a park. We ended up at Island's of Adventure and just as we got into the park it started pouring rain. Well, it's going to take a bit more than that to get us off the trill rides, I'll tell you that. So we rode EVERYTHING and figured since we were already wet, why not jump on all the water rides too. Well, little did we know that we could get much wetter than we already were. After the sun went down we got a bit chilly too. We ended up going to dinner after the park closed at Margaritaville and asked to sit outside just so we could try to warm up. We had a great time, but boy were we all exhausted....we even wore down the teenager!

My nephew's 3rd birthday

My nephew Carter was turning 3 and so we went to see Go Diego Live to celebrate. It was my sister, Keegan, Hunter, Carter and me. We don't have any pictures from the show because they didn't allow a camera but I do have a few pictures from his birthday party at Sliderz. I think all the kids really liked the show too, it's a great show really. I'll just hate when my kids outgrow these shows and I won't have an excuse anymore to go. Ha! The kids also had a wonderful time at the birthday party, Sliderz is a place that has inflatable slides, moon bounces and a dodge ball pit. I'm not going to lie and say that the adults don't have just as much fun, because we were racing up and down the slides with the best of them!

My favorite photos from Club Med...

We did so much on this vacation: golf, tennis, circus school, hip hop lessons, water aerobics, bocce ball, tether ball, playground, sailing, archery, golf, eat, drink....the only thing we really missed out on was sleep! We were so tired from our trip that we almost needed another vacation to recover. Every single night we would go back to the room and pick a lime from the tree....when we got home we were going to cut them and turns out....they were very unripened oranges...who knew! And we found a crab that we played with along the way, the kids named him "Mr. Crabs" very Spongebob original I know, but they wanted to bring him home....no chance we were picking that guy up, his claws were serious. But here are some of our favorite pictures from the trip including one of Mr. Crabs. We can't wait to go back again next year!

Pool time at the Resort

The pool was probably one of my favorite things at the resort....not often you get to relax on a float, tan and have a banana daiquiri and not worry about kids. Ahhh, the life! Of course Sean had to go off and do water aerobics, Sis and I just stayed on our rafts and laughed at him. I'll have to try to figure out how to post video because we taped some of it, he just looked so funny with all the girls doing water aerobics. And of course I needed the exercise and didn't participate.....guess that's the very reason why I need it still huh?

Belly up to the bar

The bar was the central gathering place for all at Club Med. The bartenders became close friends of all of ours, they sat with us at dinner, played with the kids and took great care of all of us! Our favorite one was Becca, she was awesome! She was like family, just one of those people you felt a connection with right away. The kids adored her, guess because she fed them sugar drinks with cherries all day long. ha! They did trivia, shows, games.....all sorts of activities here in this bar. It was a very family friendly place and the bar was no exception. They had a help yourself soda machine in there too, right next to the arcade no doubt. The arcade would have been fine but it had a crane game....my kids can't pass up a crane game, they don't care if their entire college savings goes into it, they're getting yet another stuffed animal. I think we came home with 9 different ones and we were only there for 4 days!

Circus School

Okay, so I know most of you think we're just a bunch of clowns but now we've officially gone to circus school so it's likely to be even worse! We're not only good at being total clowns but Matthew and I braved the trapeze. He did the "swing of death"....Hunter was in line but as soon as he heard the guy say "you'll do two forward rolls, then run with your hands up and take the "swing of death"....the daredevil sat right down! I guess I don't blame him, that probably would have scared me a bit too, but I was shocked that Matthew went on and did it because he takes things like that very literal too. I did the adult trapeze and the worst part was climbing up that tiny ladder with bare feet. I thought I'd never get to the top. The swing out wasn't bad but it did show me just how weak I am because it was a struggle to hold on. Then I had to flip my feet through and hang upside down and then I flipped off the trapeze to the net below for my dismount. I even had to do a flip off the net to the ground. It was really cool....I only wish I wouldn't have been wearing a dress! Granted, I did have my swim suit on under it, but still I'm sure those people below got way more of a view than what they bargained for.....oops! Ha!