Last Day, Day 4

One last family picture, and then we hit the road.  We all drove up to the Everglades to spend the last day with my family here.

The Everglades were really pretty, but the mosquitoes were horrible.

We were only a few feet away from this alligator.  It was a little bit freaky but very cool.  It started raining so we all got drenched.  But it was worth it to see the gator. 

Another Gator. 

Exhausted!

Jared doesn't know this but, he likes to pick his nose in his sleep.

HEHE!!

We were sad to say goodbye.  It was a blast to have my whole family here.  We cramed alot of fun into a short four days. 

I love you family!!

Day 3

Day 3.

We got up and went to Southern Most Beach first thing in the morning.  We rented a couple paddle boards and all took turns cruising around. 

When we got bored of paddling around, we practiced headstands.  I learned these doing paddle board yoga.

Chelacie was the best!

Jared came in at a close second.

I like to do different tricks with my legs.

Oh Chandler... nice try buddy.

Then we had a picnic at Ft. Zachery beach.

This beach is my favorite beach in Key West.

We took several family pictures.

I love this one.

After beach and family pictures we went on a Sunset Snorkeling Tour.

This was the captain and his mate.

My sister is gorgeous!

Here we are getting all our snorkel gear on.

We all had a really fun time and saw lots of pretty coral and colorful fish.

Sailing back to the island of Key West.

My dad is a pretty handsome... for a old grey haired man.

We worked up an appetite snorkeling so we headed home to grill out hamburgers and hotdogs at our place by the pool.  Our food smelled so good we had to fight off a few raccoons to keep them from eating our food.  Luckily Zuri was there to save us.  Especially since she is smaller than the raccoons, they were very intimidated by her.

Day 2

The next day we had a big cruise ship in, which means the store is very busy, which means Chris and I had to work.

So my family slept in, ate breakfast, and then walked around the shops downtown.  They came and visited us at work.  So they all got to see where we worked and got a free necklace and bought a bamboo shirt.

After work we went to the Key West Museum or Art and History.  Here are some of the pictures we took.

Then we walked around the Clinton Square Mall and went to the Toy Factory.

We ate dinner at El Siboney.  A great little local Cuban Restaurant.  It is soooo good.

Everyone was pretty full afterward.  Those Cubans don't skimp on portion size.

After dinner we went to Mallory Square to watch the Sunset.  Mallory square is the place to be for sunset because there are always several people playing music and putting on acts and doing tricks.  We watched two different shows. 1.  A 50 year old black gymnast.  He was actually really good.  Chandler got pick to be the volunteer.  So that was exciting.  Especially, when he almost got his nut sack smashed when the gymnast did a back-flip in between Chandlers legs while we was lieing on the floor.  I wish I had pictures of this.   It was hilarious.  

2. An escape artist.  Again, Jared and my dad were picked to be volunteers in the show.   After that is was dark so all the shows were over.  

We got chocolate covered Key lime pie on a stick.  Of course, because it is my favorite and EVERYONE loved it!  Then we headed back home.  We all went for a late night swim at our pool.  This was especially fun because we brought Zuri along with us.   She sure did enjoy swimming in the pool.  We played some water games and ended the night with some good old chicken fights.  We mixed up the teams in every way we could but it didn't matter whoever was on Jared's team always won. :( 

That was day two.