After a crazy day of travel, we woke up to the first of many gorgeous, relaxing mornings in Florida.
We made it to Fort Meyers beach, so now we know if we ever make it back to skip it. It's half beach, half ashtray and full of skanky spring breakers...next beach please! The next day it was St Armands Beach in Sarasota and it was perfect! It was a huge beach and barely anyone was there (they were all shopping in the little square near by). Keith spent all day playing in the water while I did an amazing impression of solar panel on the sand.
The next day was Easter. We started with french toast and bacon and ended with goat cheese crusted rack of lamb. In between there was a lot of laying by the pool. It was wonderful.
Before picking up Keith's family at the airport on Monday, Keith and I got a chance to stop at Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's winter estates. Thomas Edison and I go way back, since as a toddler I peed on a rug in his childhood home in Milan, Ohio-we have a bond. For as close as I thought Edison and I were, I had no idea that he was kind of best friends with Henry Ford or his quest to find a plant that could produce rubber as a way to make the US less dependent on foreign producers of rubber. The estates were beautiful. They were full of gardens overflowing with both native and non-native plants. I would recommend stopping there if you ever get a chance!
Now we had Keith's dad, step mom, brother, brother's fiance, sister and sister's friend all to hang out with-it was time to get out on the ocean! We had a beautiful and relaxing day of bobbing around on the boat.
We stopped at Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island. It is an adorable little village that has a ton of massive banyan trees-the trees are truly impressive! We walked to a little beach and played in the water-after Keith's dad informed me of all the different kind's of shark around-great!
The day before we left we got a chance to visit Keith's grandma. This was one thing Keith was really hoping for while we were in Florida since we so rarely get to see her. We had a nice visit and got from her the only souvenir we brought home: a beautiful hand knitted blanket.
It was wonderful to hang out with everyone and and lay in the sunshine! Now we're home and it's still snowing. The Subaru got us all the way back-I think we should be in a commercial or something!
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