Hi everyone! We got to take a vacation to Florida for two weeks at the beginning of this month. We left on May 26 and returned home on June 11. We drove 1,007 miles from our home to Delray Beach, FL (the route we took is traced in blue on the map below).
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| Esther in the car. The backseat was full of our stuff! 5/27/13
We stayed at a Days Inn motel in Kingsland, GA overnight because 1,007 miles is too much to drive in one day! We drove 11 hours the first day and about 5 hours the second day.
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The Florida border was only a few miles from the motel we stayed at but we still had to drive another five hours or so until we actually got to to the beach.
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Unfortunately, the Florida welcome center was closed because it was Memorial Day. We took pictures of the outside though.
Scenery somewhere in Florida. 5/28/13
The ocean was pretty rough the first few days we were there because it was so windy (our hair blew all over the place when this picture was taken).
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The hotel we stayed at had a shuffleboard court and a basketball hoop. I got the ball in the hoop only about half the time.
We actually cheated to get this picture. I balanced the ball on my finger for about half a second while Esther took the photo. It took us a few times to get it.
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That's croquet, Esther, not golf! Lol 5/29/13
Hula hoops 5/29/13
The ocean was too rough to swim in the first few days we were there so we stood at the edge and looked for shells instead.
I found a huge number of conch shells in the ocean one day. I was standing in one spot and I just kept finding all these shells.
Ping-pong, anyone?
We sat out on the hotel's front porch most nights (except when it was raining).
Unfortunately, it rained most of the days we were in Florida (so much for "Sunshine State"!). My mom took this picture from the balcony of our room.
We only found one shark's tooth while we were there and Esther was the one who found it.
Our hotel from the beach.
The ocean was really calm a few days. We walked way out into the water and it still only came up to our knees.
The three of us on the beach. My dad dug the hole because there was a large piece of concrete buried in the sand. I found a few pretty shells in the hole before we filled it in.
We saw dozens of these small lizards every day.
 
Esther and I swam in the pool a lot.
Most of the olive shells I found were about 2 ½ inches long but I found a few large ones.
That's all the pictures I have for now but I hope to post another blog entry soon with the rest of the photos!
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