Naturally, the one vacation I decide not to bring my journal, since I haven't used it the last few times, I really wish I had. So, I'm blogging instead.
We got into Florida last night and down to the keys today. Finally to our condo this afternoon. What a long drive! The first two days were fine, but after about two hours today, we were all going a little nutty.
Over all, though, the drive was interesting. I loved driving through the mountains in Kentucky, seeing the deep gorges and the villages in them. I wanted to stop at the places where they cut through the rock to lay the road. The rock faces were absolutely beautiful. I could have stood and studied the various lines and colors and textures for hours. There were even some with small water falls coming out of them. It was also cloudy that day, so some of the mountain tops disappeared in the clouds and wisps of clouds floated past our van as well. I wanted to get out and stand on the edges and yell down into the valleys to see if it would echo. But, we needed to keep driving. Perhaps that could be another vacation.
It was neat to see the red dirt in Georgia, and even the vegetation here is so different than what we have at home. I love the moss trees - they give the same mood as our weeping willows, but with a softer feel. And of course the palm trees are fun and somewhat whimsical. There are a couple coconut trees down on the beech here, we've talked about buying one down the road and seeing if we can crack it open.
The resort here is amazing - very nice! Our place has two rooms - a bedroom with two queen beds and a living/kitchen room. Two bathrooms and a deck out each room that overlooks the pool area and the beach and the ocean. We'll go out tomorrow and get groceries so we can eat breakfasts and lunches in the room.
We walked around a little bit and I think I could probably just walk around all week and explore and be perfectly happy. The beach area isn't very sandy - it's more made up of broken coral and shell pieces, which makes it even better. We saw two jelly fish that had washed up and one of them had light orange veins running through it - it was very pretty. Saw several blue man-o-wars all ballooned up. Those don't facinate me as much, though. The piles of shells and shell pieces could keep me occupied for days. I'm so weird that way, I guess. There are pieces of things wrapped in the seaweed as well. Pieces of brain coral and clam shell and periwinkle shells and tiger shells and all the rest - too fun. We even found a piece of sponge that was quite nice. The patterns on the shells are endless and I would love to have time to look at every one of them. My guess is that while the kids swim in the pool, I'll be at the water, just bent over looking.
Although, I do look forward to getting in the water again as well. I love swimming and the pool is heated and pretty big.
I could go on, but April wants a turn with the computer and Nathan wants his bed set up.
Hopefully I'll write again tomorrow night.
Goodnight.
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