Florida post 3

So, yesterday, wesa all went canoeing/kayaking. We as in: Me, Rachel, her mom, and two younger brothers and their dog, Bambi. Me, Mrs. Mommy, Rachel, and Bambi rode in the canoe, and the boys rode in the kayaks. The river thingie we rode on was only like 3 foot deep or something. We went out to a small little island and ate Subway that we had bought before. Me and rachel took the kayaks a lil ways out and drifted like a lot lol. I put my turtle silly band on my leg so i would tan around it and theres the faintest lil white spot where one of the turtles feet goes :P So I gotta keep working on it. Since we had drifted out so far, it took what seemed like a long time to get back to the lil island, and it hurt pretty bad lol.

Me in da water

The land to the right is part of the little island we stopped at

Rachel and me :)

Bambi aka Bambers :)

When we got back to the little island, we kinda just hung out, and we saw groups of fishies jump out of the water and it was SO cool!! I wish I got pictures. And then when me and rachel got back in the canoe, and Mrs. Mommy was out of it, pushing us off, I saw a small shark about 7-10ft away from us coming towards us! I was like, "Look! A shark!" in a way like "oh, that's cool" and not in a scary way lol, then Mrs. Mommy saw it and freaked out and jumped in the boat, haha. But it swam away. It was really cool! Wish I got pictures :(

When we got home, we tooks a shower then went to church. Mr. Daddy teaches the youth, and I really liked his preaching and his sermon :) After, we had YUMMY cookies :D

Then today, me, Rachel, Mrs. Mommy, Mr. Daddy, Lil Bro, Liler Bro, and rachels aunt and uncle all went boatin. Rachel's fam has a tube called Big Bertha and that was a lot of fun! Rachel's uncle fell off. He was going like really fast, lol. Then when Mrs. Mommy and rachel's aunt went, they kinda fell off after Mr. Daddy stopped the boat because the tube had lost a lot of air. Then the second time me and Rachel rode, when we stopped, I kinda pushed her in the water, then I went in too.

Me and Rachel

Rachel and me on Big Bertha :)

Gettin stuff off the boat!

Then wesa went home and went to Rachel's room. Rachel was tired so she kinda dozed off on the bed. I just sat there and looked at her brothers yearbook. Then pizza arrived!! And I ate that and watched Sky High, then me and rachel went back to her room (where I is right now) and watched a lot of hilarious youtube videos :) mostly Ed Bassmaster's vids. He's soooooo funny.

Well, that's about it so, until next time!

Sarah

Florida post 2

Saturday, me and rachel spent like all day painting our nails haha. Then Sunday, me and Rachel watched/teached the preschool kids at church, then wesa went home and rode our bikes to the park and took a few pictures.

Then we came back and watched Elf until Rachel's aunt and uncle came and then soon after we went to bed lol.

Then Monday (yesterday), we went to da beach! First beach we went to was mostly just rocks, so we didn't swim, but took a few pictures.

Then we went to a beach we could actually swim at and that was a lot of fun. We saw a hot surfer dude :P then he totally wiped out haha. Here are pics from that beach.

The surfer dude

Me and Rachel

Later that night, we watched The Master of Disguise and that was hilarioius :)

Heres a picture at breakfast today. Rachel's familys puppy, Bambi, licking me

Then me and rachel rode our bikes to the Wildlife Sanctuary

A crazy eyed owl

Toitles :)

Sleeping skunk :)

An adorable Florida Panther :)

my adorable turtle necklace i bought at the gift shop

Me and my Turtle Crossing sign i bought :) so cute

Well, I'ma go on a bike ride now with Rachel, so bye!

Goin' Home Today!!

Yup, I'm finally going home today, after 9 days. I'm excited. I've had a lot of fun here in Florida, but i'm ready to go home. I'm ready to see my family, and REALLY excited to see my animals :) I haven't pet an animal in like 7 or 8 days, and that was just one pet of a fat cat at a resteraunt..

:( I can't go too long without petting an animal, lol. And this is too long for me. LOL! R's older brother, Z just tripped over something in the bathroom, and slammed into the bathroom door which burst open. lol it scared me. He fell on the ground, got up, said "good morning". lol

Anyways, mine and Luke's flight leaves at 4:30pm, and we fly to.. i don't remember where. Then we get on another plane and fly home :)

Friday we all went to Epcot in Disney World, but I really don't feel like posting about that really... But I'll tell you what I bought:

1. A little plastic kitty bowl for my kitten. On the side, it has a bunch of different Disney cat characters.
2. A beer mug from Germany (NOT for beer!!!!). btw, Epcot has like 11 different "countries" you can visit and Germany was one. That was my fav country.
3. 2 peices of chocolate from Germany
4. A bag of candy from Norway for Adam back home
5. A friendship bracelet in Mexico (rachel got one too)
6. A shot glass with leather around it in Mexico for adam.
7. little wooden duck for my grandparents in China
8. 2 tiny peices of chocoalte in Italy

Is that all? I thought I bought more... hmm i guess not. Well I got to get ready, eat breakfast and whatever else, so I'll post later. ttyl

Until next time, my friends!

Florida!

Sorry I haven't posted yet. We met R's family at a store around 8 in the morning at McDonald's on Saturday. We drove like six hours to a hospital in Alabama where R's great uncle was. We stayed there for about 20 minutes or so and left and drove another who-knows-how-many-hours to a hotel where we got one free night there. All seven of us stayed in that little hotel room. After we got settled in the hotel, we went to the beach. It was like 8pm or something like that, and the sun was setting on the beach and it was so pretty!! But R forgot her camera, so we didn't get any pictures...

the above is a picture of the hospital by the way.

When we got back to the hotel, we took turns taking showers and then all went to bed. Luke and R's brother Z slept on the floor, R and me got one bed, and R's mom and two little brothers got the other bed.

The next day we left and drove about an hour to another beach that was SO cool! The water was really clear, and the sand was almost completely white, and soft and hardly any shells. R and I stayed in the water for a long time. The water was kinda cold! But we got used to it. We got out to almost to our necks, and were talking, when something tickled my toe. I jumped and screamed. I realized a fish had come up and nibbled my toe! It was funny :P After that I accidentally kicked the little fish -- twice. lol! and then R kicked it on purpose, and then I kicked it once or twice on purpose :P Then the fish kept following us around. It was funny. R's lil brother Saiah went to get a net out of the car, and I tried to catch the little fish, but it was too fast.

That pic is me and R at the beach

We stayed there for a long while, and omg I forgot to say that before we went on the beach, we ate at a restaurant right next to the beach.

After we left the beach and drove for like an hour or so to a campsite, and we set up our kind of small tent, and we ate chicken legs and then smores. Then, R's mom and the little boys went to wal-mart to buy a REALLY big tent. So we all slept in that that night. It was horrible. I had no pillow, and my blanket covered about half of me. The ground was hard and painful. And there was lights outside, so it wasn't dark at all, and ugh I couldn't go to sleep. I finally after a long time was able to go to sleep, but I was really cold and in the morning I woke up with a sore shoulder.

We didn't leave the campsite until like 12:30pm or something like that. Before we did, me and R went back to the gift shop/gas station because we wanted to buy a cool hat that we had seen in there the day before. The hat's were awesome, but $25. But we bought them anyway. R also bought some cool sunglasses that I wish I had... Here is a pic of both of us with the hats:

Oh, i forgot to say that when we first got to the campsite, and we were right outside the gift shop and were walking back to the car, a guy quite a few years older than me and R walked by us and said, "Ooo!! Girls :)" LOL! It was so funny. I didn't know what to think of it.

After we left there, we drove several hours to a place where we were going to camp and then the next day go tubing, but we ended up voting to just go home instead. And so we drove 5 hours to R's home. It was a long 5 hours, which a lot of it I spent sleeping, or at least trying to. We finally got here to R's house at 11pm. We brought some of our stuff in, and after saying hello to R's dad (he had come back before R and the rest of her family did), R and I came to her room, and got on the computer (facebook).

While I was on the computer, R started writing on my arm with a thick, black, permenant marker. ALL over my right arm. It was covered, and I went to wash it off, and it's MUCH harder than it looks. I got most of it off, but it's all still on my arm, but just faint. It lookes really weird.

Ok, so me and R are going to get ready and go on a bike ride around here, and maybe ride to the pool to swim later. I'll post more later, ttyl.

Z and Luke trying on hats and sunglasses in the gift shop

Luke

Me on the beach. It was REALLY bright out there, that's why I'm squinting

Me and R

R and I in our cool hats (I'm wearing R's sunglasses)

I'll post more pix and other stuff later. ttyl

Until next time, my friends!

Poll and pictures from last year in FL

FYI incase you didn't see, I just put up two polls over there --->>
on the sidebar. The first one is "have you ever been to FL?" and the other is "Have you ever held an Alligator?". I was the first to vote. Woo hoo! lol.

Here's some pictures from my trip last year to FL:


The famous Everglades!!
















The bike trail rode thing at the National Park






























An Alligator skull in the gift shop (not for sell)

R's lil brother Sai (nickname)

Palm trees at the beach during a slight storm

jellyfish we found on the beach

A Lighthouse

R's lil brother Sai (i'll just call him that. short for his name)

An outside restaurant we went to. That was on the ceiling

My brother Luke and my friend's brother Z at the restaraunt

My friend (I'll call her R) and me in the car

My many braids

R's braided ponytail lol.

I'll post more next time. Like Alligator pictures and stuff :) Sorry the pictures are really close together and the words aren't in the right spot really... it won't fix :( but I always have that problem when I put a lot of pictures on here.

Until next time, my friends!