More From Florida

We are still here and having a wonderful time. Today we went to Mote Marine Aquarium (and thanks to our Dallas Zoo membership, we got in free!), but I don't have those pics uploaded yet. So here are pics from Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Aunt Becky, Aunt Amy, and Grammy played a game of Scrabble while the girls gladly helped. There were no secrets in this game thanks to the girls. They would help pick the letters for whoever needed them, and would make comments like, "Hey that letter spells my name!" Ha ha. Then when something good would happen, there would be a lot of high fives. In fact, Gillian kept telling Vivien, "Give my mom a high five!"

Yesterday we went to the park outside of Marina Jack. When we pulled up, there were a ton of school buses and we were afraid that the park would be overrun. Apparently they had a big exhibit for diversity there and so the kids were all there to view the giant posters of art depicting diversity. Luckily, they were not in the water fountains, and only a few were allowed at a time to play on the playground. Vivien was only interested in playing in the fountains a short time, but the view was much more beautiful than any spraygrounds in the metroplex!

Aunt Becky met us there and Vivien was very excited to see her!

I guess I was the only one that noticed this sign. I took a picture of it and showed my family and it took a bit for everyone to see what I thought was peculiar. Can you see it?

Right next to the playground is a little open air restaurant called O'Leary's. We sat outside under the tiki hut. The food wasn't great, but it was nice out and there was a guy playing live music. Vivien was having fun dancing around to it.

Grampy and Grammy took Vivien home to nap while Dad, Aunt Becky, and I wandered around downtown. We planned for dinner at the beach, so while Grammy was getting sandwiches for dinner Vivien joined Grampy in the backyard. He told her all kinds of stories about princesses named Vivien.

We got to the beach and ate our dinner. It was so incredibly windy in the picnic/playground area so we hurried out to the actual beach. It was still very windy, and somewhat chilly. We skipped going in the water since it was cold and opted to fly kites. It started out with Uncle Doug and Daddy helping the girls get the kites up and ended up as a competition between Uncle Doug and Daddy. They were very funny acting like they were doing tricks with the kites. Doug was flying a butterfly and Jim was flying some kind of girly bird. We made fun of them for the rest of the night, but it sure was fun to watch them with those kites.

Here is Grampy in the foreground and Uncle Doug, Daddy, and Uncle Casey getting the kites up.