Orlando, Florida

While Marcus was fishing up in Canada with some friends, Jaelyn & I flew to Orlando, FL to visit some good friends of ours~ Paul & Elise Bosscher! Their two sons, Ethan & Drew were great playmates for Jaelyn! We arrived Friday evening and were planning to stay through Wednesday, however Tropical Storm Fay made us shorten our trip. :( Instead we flew out Monday afternoon. Good thing we did...people said if we didn't get out of Orlando by Monday we may not have gotten out until the weekend! Yikes! When I saw neighbors boarding up their windows for the storm to come through I thought it was best to get out of there!! :)

Thankfully we were able to go to the ocean on Sunday! It is SO hot & humid in Florida during the summer months...even at the ocean! I used to think I could handle the hot/humid weather after living in Michigan for most of my life, but now after living in the Pacific Northwest for almost 3 years that is not the case anymore! Jaelyn wasn't too sure of the ocean~it had pretty big waves that were a bit too scary for her. She did get her feet wet, though! She enjoyed playing in the sand, but didn't like the fact that the sand stuck to her skin! Somehow the sand managed to get into her eyes which was not fun at all!!



I got to try my luck with boogie boarding~it was fun to catch the waves...but not so fun when the waves thrashed you around! I had buckets full of sand in my suit after boogie boarding!

It was such fun hanging out with the Bossher family....even if for a short time! Jaelyn absolutely LOVED playing with both Drew & Ethan! Hopefully we'll get to see each other again soon! :) Thanks for all your hospitality, Paul & Elise!!