... A Day in Service in Florida

This Tuesday we went out in service as a family. We started driving down this road to get the houses- only there we no houses. We thought the ocean might be at the end of the street, so we keep on driving. Lets just say the road was not the smoothest! 

Since we have had a lot of rain the past couple of weeks, we had to keep checking to see if the puddles would be to deep to drive through. (That's dad outside)

 Riley was driving us out in service... And the journey continued... Finally the road got to rough to drive. We saw on the GPS that we were 1/3 of a mile so we decided to walk the rest of the way. (I know a lot of effort to see the ocean.. But hey- this is still all new to us!)

And we walked.. 

The Ocean!

 

So wish we had this palm in the front of our house!

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 This is a Live Oak tree we saw... SO PRETTY!

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...... And that is what our service day is like!:) :)
(the next road had all the houses on it!)

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We went to the ocean today! Alligator Point (the beach closest to us) was BEAUTIFUL! The water was so clear! It was amazing. All the shells had gotten pushed up to the shore and we found some really pretty shells. But the most amazing thing we found was what was in the water....

Are you wondering what these are?..  They are sand dollars! Believe it or not.. these sand dollars are alive! We all walked out into the ocean pretty far out there. I picked up some sand, and I thought I felt something like a shell in my hand. It was a sand dollar! Ends up we were standing on a bed of sand dollars. We picked up a total of 33 sand dollars (that was just grabbing a few considering how many we really saw) It was the most amazing experience! We set all the shells out on the wet sand and  came  back to them later and they had partially buried themselves, trying to get back to the water. 

This picture is a little blurry! This is the back side of the sand dollar. Those are its little legs! So amazing:)

 

No.. we didn't keep all of them:( we just picked out a few that we liked, then let the others go back to the ocean! I have never seen anything like that before. It was so awesome! 

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Exploring the Springs

 This weekend we had tons of fun! We had some guests come down and visit us from Kentucky & we got to take them to the Spring in our county. We had a blast. First we started our journey with a boat ride, where we spotted lots of wild birds, alligators, turtles, and even manatees!

Manatees are most closely related to a elephant. They are such an interesting animal. Can you spot the manatee? :-)

This was such a cute little family of turtles. Your going to have to look really close at all these pictures!

Don't forget the 'gators! See him in the picture above?


After having a fun experience on the boat ride. We hit the water. It is super cold. It average around 66-71 degrees year round.. Brrrrr. Right? Didn't scare us off!

We had such a blast with our company. We can't wait to do it again!