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On our first full day in Sarasota we found ourselves venturing around town in an attempt to orient me for future reference. We headed on over to Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium briefly just to see where it was and what the area was like, choosing to wait to go inside until a later date. Mote is on City Island across the bay from Sarasota. From there we decided to hit the tourist hot spot Siesta Key - voted the #1 beach ...
Last Day in Florida... :(
Well its been a blast being here but unfortunately all great things must come to an end...tomorrow is the end of a fabulous vacation shared with our daughter and our 3 foreign daughters!! Today we spend our last day on Gasparilla Island enjoying the beautiful views, warm sunshine and relaxing Gulf ...
Picked Fruit & Shopping!!
Today we stayed closer to home. We went to a Dad's friends house to pick fresh oranges, grapefruit & limes from the trees in his backyard and also ate some while we were at it. As luck would have it for me, I walked out the back door and was attacked on my feet by fireants. As I was knocking them all off my feet, Sina was lucky enough to get attacked by them also!! So we had to make a stop by a pharmacy to get itching cream because a couple days ...
Sammie J and Dad~Band Jam
After the girls spent the afternoon at Port Charlotte Mall shopping we ate grilled cheeseburgers and then headed over to watch a Band Jam Session. It was a good time although it was a bit colder than we have gotten used to down here. The temp ranged around 50 degrees outside so they put down the sides of the tiki ...
A visit to Gaparilla Island to watch the sunset.
This evening we all loaded up in the Suburban and went out to Gasparilla Island to watch the sunset. We showed the girls the exact area on the Island where Jim & I got married 2 years ago. We took more photos together there. While Heather and Sina were walking along the shallow area of the Gulf they were surprised to see a Stingray swimming right along beside them!! We enjoyed a relaxing night there and returned ...


