More Florida Adventures!

There is a lot to catch up on! We have had a blast ever since we arrived in Florida, we are taking advantage of these first few weeks of school before it gets to rigorous to see as many things as possible, and to just enjoy our new home! We hope you enjoy the pictures, and we hope that they will give anyone who was debating about visiting Florida, the extra push that they need...hahaha

These first pictures are of a fun miniature golf course that we went to. It was a lot of fun, but boy howdy was it hot! So after we played a round, we headed to the beach which was only 2 minutes away.

Our next adventure took place in Falling Waters state park (about 45 miles from Panama City). This is a beautiful park, and home of Florida's tallest waterfall. The picture doesn't show how deep it goes, but it is fairly large.

Addi loved the swings, and played there for a long time!

This next picture is not for the faint of heart. It is hard to see, but this is one of many gigantic spiders we saw at the state park. They were huge, about 2-3 inches long!!! Not only did we find huge spiders, but Jacob almost stepped on a snake, and after making our way to the swimming hole, we saw a sign that said, "Warning: Alligators, swim at your own risk"

A few days later we headed to The Caverns state park, just to find out that it was closed for the day, so instead we drove around and found some fun places in Marianna, Florida (about 50 miles from Panama City)

This was a beautiful park we found called Citizens Lodge where we had a picnic.

After we ate, we found a little boat dock that was covered with greenery...so pretty!

And there was no escaping a picture next to a big palm tree!

We found a trail at the park, and decided to take a walk where we discovered how many bugs Florida really had! This is a little lake, pond, swamp area that we found, and even though we were really hot, it wasn't a very inviting swimming hole.

Our last adventure for now, was a place called Gulf World, it is like a mini sea world. Oh, and don't worry, Addi isn't really being eaten by a shark:)

We saw lots of animals, including this sea lion who was posing for pictures

We even got to pet the sting rays...very slimy!

Addison loved the turtles, she wouldn't take her eyes off of them for anything.

The underwater stadium was fun too!

One of the great things about Gulf World is that a lot of the animals are at arms length away with no cages or fences or anything...you really get an upclose experience, as you will see in the next few pictures!

Can you believe it? Jacob is actually holding a real snake! For someone who jumps out of bed at night thinking there are snakes in the bed, this is a big accomplishment! In fact, this same night, Jacob woke up in the middle of the night, but this time in stead of jumping out of bed from fear, he said "Did you see that snake?" and then he proceeded to laugh. I think this experience has cured Jacob's deep down fear of snakes...Wahoo!!!

I even held it too, but from the look on my face, I think my fear of snakes is just going to be worse!

And Addison decided that she was just going to hold the snake in the souvenir shop

Just one last picture of cute little Addison on our way home from gulf world, she was eating some snacks when this picture was taken. I love her baby blues!