Day 5- "Alligators, Tigers, Crocodiles...Oh my!"

(Lindsey)

Today was another great day. We were once again blessed with wonderful weather. Our morning was pretty predictable. Jarrod, Alexa, and I woke up around 7:30am. After breakfast, the three of us went running on the bike trail for 30 minutes. Alexa fell asleep within 10 minutes into her ride. K.C. was awake working on his paper by the time we got back to our condo. I woke up Caitlin and Jordy to watch Alexa as I headed down to the ocean (Jarrod went to the gym.)

Jarrod and Alexa made it down to the pool shortly after. She loves the water! She played with her Nerf balls, but she wanted every other toy she saw others playing with. The three of us played until she wore herself out. Jarrod took her up for a nap, and I went to the beach. Dillon was staying inside and watching TV, so he listened for Lex as she slept. Caitlin, Jarrod, K.C., and Jordy joined me on the beach. There were some major waves today. So, as the hardcore surfers we are, we grabbed the boogie boards and faced them head on. It was fun. We also had tire tubes out there to float in.

I was the first to come in from the sun. The others were not far behind me. Alexa woke up, and we all had lunch. Everyone was just lounging around and relaxing. As Caitlin and I were primping, the boys were watching "Bring It On- All or Nothing." HaHa. They won't admit it though if you ask them....Finally, we were all ready and left for an exciting evening out!

(Caitlin)

We had a fun night. All of us went to a place called Alligator Adventure. We arrived there at 6:00pm and stayed until 8:00pm. They have all sorts of different animals: tigers, alligators, crocodiles, birds, hundreds and reptiles, ducks, beavers. otters, tortises, etc. We walked around looking at the various types of animals. We got to see the largest croc in the whole world- weighing over a ton and 20 feet long! And they had a concession stand where we all got a snack (Chocalate Bannanas on a stick...mmmmm and frozen cheese cake...yummy) and while we were in the food court, along came a wild squirrel! I started feeding the squirrel and eventually started petting it, While Alexa tried kicking it!! It was really tame! But Alexa loved looking at the different animals! I think her favorite thing to look at were all of the ducks because when we decided to move away from the ducks she threw a fit!!! They had a lot of neat places to get pictures too! So we ended up taking A LOT of pictures!!

Here are just a few pictures of some of the animals we saw:

And here are some pictures of all of us: