Christmas break for me was topped off by a quick trip to the Florida Keys with my mom to see my beautiful cousing get married. Mom has not flown before and was slightly nervous...
She actually was really calm the whole time and just followed my lead. Things went so smoothly driving to the airport, getting through security, the flights...rental car...everything just went so nicely. I was worried about finding where we were going in a rental car after dark, but the people were so helpful and we only had one wrong turn...which was really a mis-labeled street, so it doesn't count, right? We found our first hotel and were pleasantly surprised. The theme for the trip was "get it as cheap as possible"...so I wasn't sure what we would find with the hotels I booked. The room was very spacious and was so nice. We arrived on New Year's Eve and were a little concerned about partying and such. When we checked in we found out that it was a Christian-run hotel that had a no alcohol policy within the hotel. Pleasant surprise to know God was watching out for us, and the desk clerk even threw in a bag of microwave popcorn to celebrate the New Year! (We didn't make it til the ball dropped if you are wondering...long day of travel meant that we made it til about 11:20ish and that's all I remember)!
We spent that first night in Fort Lauderdale and then had to drive down to the Keys the next morning. This was our room in the Keys...not NEARLY as nice. Very small, note the window airconditioner...teeny-tiny tv...no alarm clock, phone or even a real light in the room...but all we did was sleep here and it WAS on the beach!!
The view from our room, along with our rental car parked there...Hyundai that I really enjoyed driving!
After we got up on Sunday (day after the wedding), we checked out of our rooms, but spent some time hanging out on the beach at the hotel and enjoying the warmth, sunshine and flowers that we knew we wouldn't see in Indiana for months.
Palm trees...ahhhhh....makes me feel warm just looking at this picture!
More pictures and story to follow...this is going to be a 3 part post...just too many pics to share at once...I narrowed it down, but had over 100 from the weekend in Florida! Stay tuned...
2 comments:
It looks sooo warm!!!
did you have to post those pictures when we are bracing for a blizzard???!?! just kidding, well, maybe! but it does look heavenly and warm and sunny and colorful:)
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