Noa, Cousin Tommy, and I traveled to Florida to see our family friend, Liz. We made a vacation out of it, and added an overnight cruise to Grand Bahama island.
We had an AMAZING time, best trip I've taken! In Florida, we visited Myakka River State Park and rented a canoe. Our mission, okay it was more like my mission, was to find alligators. Noa was apprehensive but she got in the canoe and we were off! Our first sighting took us by surprise as all we heard was the splashing of water from an alligator that scurried off... it freaked us out and because we were in a canoe I told Noa to stay still so we didn't tip! She said, You are a crazy mom, you are ruining my childhood!!!" Once I knew we were all safe, we kept searching and ended up spotting a few more and turned out we all had an amazing time, and wanted to do it again!!!!
We searched for shark teeth at the local beaches and were able to find quite a few. Unfortunately the beaches had a huge problem with Red Tide. Noa and Tommy were fine but it caused me to cough the entire time. It was hot if you were sitting still on the beach, and Noa wasn't getting in water so she wasn't enjoying herself. After I dragged her in and swam with her she had a much better time. She just didn't have any experience of swimming in the ocean so I can see how it was intimidating.
Our last Florida adventure was taking an airboat tour along Peace River. At first, I thought it was going to kind of lame but it turned out to be super fun and educational! The airboat was fast and it can travel on land and water. We saw more alligators and I took a $10 challenge to jump in and out of the river! I was the first woman to do it but couldn't get Noa to do it with me. I bribed her with $100 or a new Nintendo Switch game but no deal. At least she saw me to it! After, she said, "My mom's cool!" Lol
We will talk about this trip the rest of our lives.
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