Rest of our Florida trip

After the first day in Orlando, we drove to my Grandma Klendworth's place in Bradenton to stay the rest of the week. We had a packed full week. We found lots of playgrounds to play at and went to many different beaches. It was just so nice to not have to spend all day indoors like in Minnesota during the winter. Hannah said that her favorite part about the trip was swinging, but she definitely enjoyed the beach too. She liked to have Daddy build things and her destroy them.

The first day, we tried to play shuffleboard. We played for a few minutes before it started to rain. It was probably better that way. Hannah enjoyed herself, but it was a little dangerous having a two year old play shuffleboard.

Since it was raining, we found an indoor activity to do. So we went to "U Bounce". It is similar to our "House of Bounce". It is full of big blow-up activities that you can bounce in or slide down.

Hannah got going a little too fast on the slide as you can tell. That really is her in that rug. She was still smiling afterwards and went down again. She is a brave little girl.

Chloe with her Great-grandma. Chloe could not do too much at the bouncing place, but she liked watching the other kids.
That night we went to the Alpine Steakhouse for dinner. Andy had seen this restaurant featured on "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives". It is know for the Turdukin. A turkey stuffed with a duck, which is stuffed with a chicken. Andy enjoyed it and he bought a t-shirt to remember the experience.

I decided that I did not need to bring a hair dryer because I thought for sure that Grandma would have one for me to borrow. I just did not realize what kind of hair dryer she would have. It worked pretty well, but seemed like a lot of work for dry hair :)

I think that this was Chloe's favorite part of the trip. She loved having a bath in the kitchen sink. I was covered in water from all of her splashing! She was such a trooper the whole trip despite having a fever for most of it, which ended up being from having an ear infection. Same story as Hannah when we went to Florida when Hannah was this age. Maybe we should not take our children to Florida when they are this age.



On Thursday, we went to Mixon's fruit farm for a tour.

We got to ride a little train and they told us all about the history of the orchard. Plus they have an animal rescue place where we got to see a bunch of different animals and here stories about how they came to live at the orchard while they heal before returning to the wild. Some of the animals will stay there for the rest of their lives.

They let people hold some of the animals. Of course, Andy jumped at the opportunity.

Hannah even touched some of the animals, including the snake.







Chloe wasn't all that impressed by everything. She decided to sleep through most of it :)

In front of the store, there were two people making kettle corn.

Hannah is watching them very intently make the popcorn.