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Friday, April 11, 2008

Show & Tell - Spring Break

 

The kids and I had a wonderful Spring Break last week!!  We headed South to Ft. Myers to check out a college opportunity for Tucker at Ft. Myers Masters Commission (FMMC).



We couldn't help taking a small detour on the way in order to drive across the beautiful Sunshine Skyway Bridge - one of the longest suspension bridges there is.  (Kellen and I are fascinated with bridges, so this was a real treat for us!!) 

It was awesome!


After dropping Tucker off at the dorms, it was off to the beach.  The beaches of SW Florida are soooo lovely...bright, white sand...the calm, blue water of the Gulf....ahhhh.


One morning, we saw a wedding party setting up on the beach, beneath the lighthouse on Sanibel Island. 

How romantic!


Sanibel is a sweet little island, with cool houses....



...and awesome shelling and sea life too...

This little sea urchin was actually a pretty purplish-pink color!


Did you know that Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were friends, and that their winter estates were in Ft. Myers?  Well, 'tis true...and we just had to visit there.

 


The enormous banyan tree behind the twins was given to Edision as a small plant...

It now covers the better part of an acre!


What a great time we had!  Ft. Myers is a gorgeous place!  Just about everyone there lives on a canal! (ok...maybe I exagerate a bit...).  We loved visiting the "City of Palms."

 

 


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Friday, April 11, 2008 - Awesom pics there friend

Posted by cindy
I loved sharing this with you the pics are beautiful. Sure wish I were actually WITH you.
Have a blessed weekend Laur
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Posted by Anonymous
Your Spring break must have been a very magical, restful time. Good for rejuvenating the soul.
Blessings, Mama Karen
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Posted by Anonymous
Those are some great pictures! You are making us all wish we were in Florida right now.
Antoinette
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 - Beautiful!

Posted by FarmWife
I love those pics--so warm; so sunny; so....lovely.
But that bridge. I used to have dreams as a child that I was driving on a bridge just like that and I drove right off it and into the deep water and almost drowned (I would have drowned if I hadn't woke up). *she shudders*

SuzyScribbles AKA FarmWife
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Posted by Anonymous
Ohhhh that looks like you all had a GREAT time ! Wow, that is sooooooo pretty there. The Banyan tree also grows in Vanautu in the South Pacific where my two oldest and I want to go on a short missionary trip . That won't happen till 2010. Lord willing. I have to start raising the funds for it.

Thank you for sharing this with us. ((hugs))

Blessings and ((hugs)) my SSiC
In Him<><
-Mary
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Friday, May 2, 2008 - Helllllooooo

Posted by cindy
Ok honey, I know your trip was a blast but I also know that life didn't stop there. Share something with me, let me know you are alive and kickin.
Love and Miss ya
Cindy
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