Weekend Recap

Garrett had a weekend off, and it just so happened that Rob did too, so... we made a mini-vacation out of it!

We were originally planning to meet up in Savannah, but plans changed at the last minute and the Egberts ended up coming all the way down to Florida.  We certainly packed in the fun!

Friday night we grilled out with them, plus we had the Greers over since they were with all of us in Newport News during intern year, so they know the Egberts too.  It was fun and we stayed up way too late hanging out.

Saturday morning, the kids were up early and we headed to the annual "Touch-a-Truck" here in town.  There were over 50 trucks for the kids to climb on, and lots of fun demonstrations and some neat information about each truck.

It was really hot outside but Olivia just chilled in her stroller:

After Touch-a-Truck, we came home, cooled off in the air conditioning, and had some lunch.  Then we headed out again - this time to the blueberry farm.

Garrett found some really big ones at the tops of the bushes:
                                               

I'm not really sure what this blueberry farm is for, or who owns it (it's not a u-pick farm).  But, once per year, there is a "neighbor picking" weekend.  Basically the main gate is just left open and people can have at it!  And, it's not really advertised except by word of mouth, so it wasn't too crazy. We drove around, stopping a few times to pick here and there, until we finally found a jackpot spot that people hadn't been to yet.  This blueberry farm is probably 50 acres of bushes, so there was plenty for everyone.

Still hot out....

Sooo good.... Sometimes I really love living in Florida!  We also went strawberry picking earlier in the week, so we've been eating berries like crazy lately.

After blueberry picking we headed over to our neighborhood pool to cool off for a bit.  Even Olivia went in the water (her first time).

Ended the day with pizza, always a favorite:

After Church on Sunday, the girls took a little nap.... :)

.... and then we headed out to one of our favorite spots to bring friends.  It's a large prairie (about 21,000 acres) that has alligators, bison, and other wild animals.

Unfortunately, it was so hot that most of the gators were in the water.  We did see an handful of baby ones, though, but nothing up on the trail or anything (we came here last October and saw a huge one right on the open trail, about 10 feet away from where we were walking).

Hmm.... maybe this should be my excuse, too.  I'm basking.

Looking for gators...

Came home, grilled out for dinner again, and then put the kids to bed and enjoyed some fresh blueberry cream cheese pie and played a board game.  Fun time!

Thanks again, Egberts, for coming down to Florida to see us!