Every year on the way to Fort Myers, we pass right by Sarasota and Siesta Key Beach. I have a lot of memories there from when I was single and it's pretty sentimental to me. I mean, I loved it so much that once upon a time my old roommate and I had job interviews lined up and were planning to move there until God very clearly closed that door. It's a good thing too, looking back, even though we were pretty sad about it at the time. But I digress.
So finally this time around when we made really good time, we took a couple hours to stop by Siesta Key. It was really fun for me to see it again and drive around Sarasota again, even if it was only for a really short time!
And after a very long time stuck in car seats, we finally made it to the bridge to get onto Estero Island. Once we hit bridge traffic we let the kids out of their seats since it takes a good hour to cross!
Sunday afternoon, first round of ice cream and yummy juice sampling at Sun Harvest Citrus.
It's pert 'near impossible to get a good family picture!
Monday morning our condo place offered free doughnuts. My children were very happy to lick all the chocolate off of theirs and then be done:)
Tucker's first swim! And only swim. He didn't hate it but didn't love it and our baby float thing just wasn't quite small enough for him. So we didn't mess with it after that.
Sooooo much fun to play on the beach!
Soooooooo much fun to dig and dig and dig and dig and...
A dream come true- slurping up a plateful of spaghetti and not even using silverware!
Hey look! We got a decent one! I sure do love this crew:)
There's a pretty sweet library close by and when we went there one morning Summer was loving this doll that was about as big as her!
We went for an evening swim one night but it was windy and cold outside of the water so we bundled Tucker all up and he was good to go!
One night Danny's parents came and watched our kids while we went on a short date. A walk down to the pier and ice cream was just the break we needed from corralling three little kids day in and day out.
The alligator is a favorite with the kids!
So many babies!
One day we took a tram ride. Sawyer was in the height of his glory. Smiles all around!
We found a cute little cove in the nature preserve we visited. We stayed until we noticed ants starting to crawl all over us.
And one last sunset on the pier before we had to go.
Growing up we always took road trips, visiting lots of different places in one vacation. I would love to do that once our kids are a little older, but I do have to say, there is something fun about returning to the same place year after year. We do love FMB!
