Florida / Take 2

A few more pictures from our trip...They had these amazing trees where vines would grow down and then take root into the ground. This is all one tree. They were huge.
This is where we stayed...

Pictures of the mini-circus (from previous post) This is just the "main tent" of their set-up.
The detail of each piece was incredible

Some memorable moments from the trip:

- of course being stranded in a deserted airport

- wearing my glasses and having them fog up every time I walked out of a building our got out of the car (not to mention the camera lens did the same thing!)

-the wildlife we saw in the yard - lizzards, squirrels, rabbits and cranes

- making fun of people at the airport (the guy who had to be in the front of every line and would do so at any cost, the over-anxious luggage claimers)

- Getting Ice Cream at Big Olaf - the coolest ice cream place down by the beach. There was a huge line clear out the door to go in.

- Walking around the shops at St. Armands

- Sitting out by the water at Phillipi Creek's Oyster Bar and enjoying delicious crab legs

- Our tour of Sarasota at 3 a.m.

- A very elderly lady at the pool doing laps for over 30 minutes! Wow!

- The street name "Tuttle"

- The GPS voice which Kris decided sounded like Barry Gibbs and we had to imitate it with each new street name

- Getting to fly first class and being able to skip past all of the lines (and have as much diet coke on the plane as I wished)

- Blistering Sunburns

- Finishing entire books (yes, Kris included)

- Eating breakfast at a little local cafe and getting a pancake that was as large as the dinner plate and 2" thick!

- A late night dollar movie with some interesting locals

- Driving past $10 million beach homes on the way to the beach

- Our (elderly) "tour guide" advising us not to go into Cheetah's because "they charge you $5 to get in and the girls do all sorts of crazy things on the stage".