Florida!!

Our trip to Florida was amazing!!  It was one of the best trips I have taken. We drove our car down and that was so much fun, all though the GPS took us on a couple random 2 hour delays but we made it.  We stopped at the Gateway Arch in ST. Lewis and that was amazing!  We road the tram to the top and oh boy is that high, and it sways.. It was scary but a great view and a great experience!  We finally got to Florida and went and saw his momma and she is doing great and that was good to see her.  We spent every night sleeping at Lyle's Step Dad's house and that was so nice of them. The main reason for this trip was to go to his brother's Graduation. That was great to be there, although it was so hot sitting out at the football field, but it was great to see everyone.  We went to a family gathering after the Graduation and I meet more of his family. It turned out to be a great night. We went to the ocean and went fishing lots of times, also crab catching out there.  That was so fun but those crabs running out all over our feet kinda gave me the creaps, but I had alot of fun.  We went to Gainsville with his sister and took her to the mall and got her nails done and also went to see a movie.  It was so funny because we got a large popcorn and they have the salts all sitting out so you can add what you want and we saw a orange container that we all thought was cheese flavor..  well it wasnt so we added regular salt and a lot and I mean A LOT of this orange powdered salt... so our popcorn was so salty we laughed so hard about this.  It was great!  We went and floated the river and that water is amazingly clear blue, but sadly we got Hardies for breakfast and I ended up with food poisoning and had a very rough 1.5 hour float down the river.  :(  I made it just in time to a bathroom.. It was a rough day.  I spent the rest of the day in bed drinking the pink pepto all day and sleeping and his step dad gave me a great nickname "Squirt" lol fights just great.. :)  Well we spent some time with his sister and her husband and 2 kids also we went to lunch with them and then went to the spring it was fun.  They gave me this tiny little turtle, I wanted to take him home with me but everyone told me he wouldnt make it. So we let him go in the spring the day before we left.  We went hog hunting while we were down there and that was crazy, When sitting in the blinde for 2 nights we didnt see a hog come in at all. but we did see some hogs off the side of the road and lyle got in the back of the truck to shot one, well and he missed it :(  but atleast he was able to shot at one.  We spent alot of our nights out in the woods driving the mainline looking at aligators, frogs, snakes, and FIREFIES!  The aligators were amazing to me.. we watched them for a while and also the last night out there we saw the fireflies and I have never in my life seen them so that was so amazing to me.  We had such a great time in florida! We were so excited to bring Lyle's little brother Galen out to Utah with us.. That will be in my next blog post though :)