Day Fifteen: Soup in the Sun and Endless Chatting

Day two in Florida started out by waking up, which is how most days start. I hope. And within just half an hour after we woke up, Hilary and I went to pool to take a dip. We swam around for about an hour, and she found a guy who apparently looked like Taylor Lautner. She was quite smitten, but kept her distance. I'm pretty sure he was only 16 anyway. After we swam around a bit, we got out of the pool and ate sine breakfast, or lunch since it was around 11 by then.

We all kind of dottled around a bit, Hilary and went to the little workout center for a bit. I lifted some weights, getting my huge biceps/triceps/arm muscles/whatever they're called in shape while Hilary partied on the treadmill. A good time was had by all. Then we went to Walmart and picked up some groceries. Super exciting, I know.

When we got back, Hilary and I microwaved some soup and took it outside to eat. We found these lounging chairs just across the street that looked across the bay. We could see across to the other side and all the hotels, it was the perfect place. Those chairs soon became "our chairs". Later, we all went swimming. But we didn't know that the pool closed at 8, so we ended up being there for only 15 minutes. Seriously, who would close a swimming pool at 8? That's so early!

Not ready to get out of the water, Hilary and I decided to wade in the bay with all the little fishies while we tried to avoid the crabs that were there. We didn't really fancy getting our toes pinched.

For the next several hours, Hilary and I sort of dilly-dallied around, watching people crab on the dock while we walked up and down it. After a while, we wandered back to our chairs and talked for a long time. You know, being friends for 10 years, you'd think we would run out of stuff to talk about, but it really never ends. It mostly came from Hilary, but it was endless.

Sorry I'm slacking on the posts, but thanks for reading!

--Sarah

Day Fourteen: Big-Boy Guns and the Ocean Night Life

Massive apologies for the lack of posts and huge delay! As you know, we were in Florida for five days, and then we came back... And I was just lazy. We all have our days. But, better late than never, right? Right!

Here we go, Wednesday morning we were awake early in the morning, but before we shoved our suitcases in the car, we loaded it up with guns and ammo. That's right, kids. GUNS. We headed over to the Tuskegee National Forest and got our gun permits for the day and headed out to the shooting range. Once we got all set up, Jonathan gave Hilary and I a thorough lesson on how to properly hold and shoot a gun. Soon, we had our earmuffs on and we were shooting different targets that we had set up.

We definitely had a lot of fun. Hilary and I both did a pretty good job at hitting the targets. We both tried out different kinds of guns. I'll put pictures at the bottom for you to see how crazy awesome we are. After we were done destroying the range, we packed back up and headed back home. Once there, we packed all our stuff for Florida in the back of the car and we were on our way!

In the car, Hilary and I watched Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I was pleasantly surprised; it was better than I thought it would be. Not to mention that Hilary and I find Logan Lerman, who plays Percy, is extremely adorable. As we neared coast, we drove by massive hotels and saw tons of lights all over the city and the water. It was really pretty, especially since it was getting dark and all the lights were bright.

Eventually we made it to our little apartment thingy at the military base recreation area and unpacked. It wasn't very big, but it was cozy. Hilary and I decided to take a late night walk. We went to the long dock that stretched out over the water. It was dark so we couldn't see a whole lot, but there were lights on the edge of the dock that lit up the water. We saw lots of big fishies jumping in and out of the water. We saw lots of crabs swimming around the bottom of the water. And even though we were out 50 or so yards, the water was only 3 to four feet deep, so we could see all the things swimming around.

There we lots of people out on the dock with crabbing nets, and they had lots of luck. All the kids got together with their families and caught lots of crab, it was fun to watch the kids get excited. Hilary even gave me a lesson on how to tell male and female crab apart. Soon, we were back in our cute little apartment and we went to sleep. A good day was had by all, and we definitely looked forward for the next day and the Florida sun!

And there you have our first (kind of) day in Florida! I'll continue to update the blog over the next couple days with the rest of the days, don't worry. Stayed tuned, and thanks for reading!

--Sarah

Welcome to Florida!