The Everglades Day 5

Monday we had planned to go shark tooth hunting at the beach, but everyone was burnt and burnt out.  So we took a break.  We went shopping, went to the pool and let the kids practice with their snorkeling gear, and got ready for our big trip to Key Largo.  On Tuesday we got up and headed down to the Keys.  On the way we stopped in the Everglades to go on an airboat ride and check out the gators.  There weren't nearly as many gators out as there are during the winter, but we still saw a few.

This guy was just chilling.

SCARY!!

Paul and Makayla getting ready for the airboat ride.

Here we go!

Yea, don't ever take a baby on an airboat ride.  It's not a good idea. It was really loud and windy and poor Gabe didn't like the ride or the earplugs he had to wear.

Mark looking cool when it was like 100 degrees outside.

Fun things growing in the trees.

After the ride we went to this gator show.  This guy was great.

Talking about gators- I guess they just lay around more than 90% of the time.

The show was a lot of fun.  A couple of weeks ago one of the tour boat captains got his hand bit off by a gator!  He was splashing the water and feeding the gator.   I guess that's not a good idea.

Emma

Ellie

Makayla

Jared

Derek

Paul

Kyle

Malinda

Me and Gabe

Mark

Me and Gabe again

After the show we walked around and saw more gators. There was a crocodile that was trying to attack us and kept hitting the fence, it was kinda scary!

Alligator in Child's Pose

After the everglades we stopped at a fun fruit stand and bought a bunch of fruit.