Sunday, October 18, 2020

Florida with Cousins!

 It has become a tradition where we go to Florida with cousins every 1 or 2 years! Last time Uncle Mike, Aunt Saundra, and their kids Carter, Kamry, and Maddie came but this year it is just us, and Uncle Stiff, Aunt Em, and Tori, Isaac, Chase, Luke, Parker, and the baby on the way! It was still really fun!!! The first day we just stayed at home and enjoyed Sunday and our cousins, The 2nd day Me, my dad, my mom, and Tori went on a sunrise walk down the beach to look for shells. We only found some little ones and some sea sponge, but we did make a fun little friend!



On the first day we just hung out , had the Sacrament, and enjoyed the Sabath! On the 2nd we traveled to the beach, and managed to get in an hour of beach fun and then come back to the rental house and put all our stuff away. On the 3rd we enjoyed our rental house's big screen TV's, the front door pool, complete with mini waterfalls, and the beach and it's waves! At the pool everyone came up with fun ways to be entertained! The younger boys all went looking for the lizards that lived near the pool and trying and failing to not go in the hot tub, and Me, Chase, Parker, May, and Cannon all had fun just swimming!



Everyone loved riding the boards, and jumping and swimming over , and through the waves! A couple of new, interesting, and fun games were invented. All the girls, except May may, went to find Tori, a new swimsuit, and on the way got some cool souveneirs at Alvin's Island! We unfortunatly still had to wear masks.

Tori got a bracelet, and me and mom got hats! It took a couple of stores to find a good swimsuit that was modest, and cute! On the 4th day we were all a bit sad it was our last day, but we decided to make the most of it. We had a lot of fun playing in the sand, Isaac dug a huge hole, and we made different sand bodies for the boys!


There were only tiny waves so my dad looked for sea creatures and actually caught several jelly fish with nets, and we all dove for shells and found they all had hermit crabs living in them! We kept catching hermit crabs and caught up to 150 of them! (Apparently Porter was counting!) We released them, watched a sandcastle building demonstration, let the parents go out





and the next day we went back to Uncle Stiff's house. The next days that remained were filled with lots of fun activities!We all had fun going boating, most of the kids enjoyed going tubeing,(Tori didn't want to)







and the dad's and Isaac, enjoyed showing off their wakeboarding skills.

All the kids enjoyed trying tricks on the tube! Especially May and Parker! They loved going and doing tricks on the tube together! Their favorite trick was standing up on the tube, while Uncle Stiff pulled slower to make sure they didn't fall.

Sadly Canon, me, and Luke submarined! Canon was so scared and sad! But everyone was fine , and everything else was still fun!




 The next day we were able to go and see the little farm that Uncle Stiff had! He had a lot of cute,  and not so cute animals! He had some chickens, turkeys, pigs, a goat, and an old horse! Although we could not ride the horse, Pratt enjoyed riding, or at least, trying to ride the goat! Porter, Cannon, and Luke had fun chasing the chickens and gawking at the turkeys! The grown-ups, Chase, Tori, and Isaac liked watching Uncle Stiff feed the pigs, and then getting to pet them! May and Parker both loved holding the kittens that Uncle Stiff's friend's cat had recently had.


While we were still there we played on the trampoline and met a stray dog which the dads kept away from everyone. Once we got back me, Porter, my dad, and Canon riding with dad rode Uncle Stiff's little motercycle and went to bed after watching the new Mulan! The next day we just stayed at home and as we got ready to leave, kept trying the motercycle out! (We still couldn't believe our dad let us)!



And after 2 hours riding in the car with Uncle Stiff we hugged said good bye and got ready for 5 hours on airplanes before we would get to my mom's friend who would drive us to our house. We had such a great time going to the beach and hanging out with our family!

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