Florida

Well, this seems a little overdue but....why not.

(Sorry, there will be no pictures :( they won't upload....)

On January 2nd seven girls piled into a mini-van and embarked upon a great adventure. Voyaging southward, the girls maintained sanity squished together for 20 hours.
yah...anyway.

That Sunday was Hannah's wedding, which was absolutely beautiful. Kendra, Ellie, Joy, Wendi, Brooke, and Larissa joined me at church. We left after the reception and drove to TN, where we stopped for the night. On Monday we went the rest of the way and picked up Britteny in Sarasota. She had flown in two days before.
We now had 8 girls in a 7 passenger van :). The person on the floor had to duck every time we saw a cop. It made driving that week never dull.

Our first full day in Florida was spent entirely at the beach. We made supper. It was amazing.

We made it to Marco Island on the second day. It will always be remembered for the bloodthirsty sea-gulls. They didn't just attack us once, no they came again, and again a third time. There were about ten of them screeching and diving at us. One tried to land on Kendra's head and three chased Wendi around for a good two minutes.

Yet another highlight of the day was the dishwasher experience. We didn't have any dish soap for the dishwasher, and we had a ton of dishes. So, Ellie told me to put some of the liquid soap in. Um. I knew what could happen, so I put in a very small amount. Well, obviously my idea of very small is still more than enough. We had soapsuds and water all over the floor.

Ellie's grandparents took us out to eat Thursday. It was a really nice restaurant with amazing food. I had lobster bisque. I think it was the best soup I've ever had. We went back to their condo for dessert and games. Her grandparents are hilarious.


Friday and Saturday were both beach days. :)....


Sunday we packed up and said goodbye to our little house. We were planning on leaving after church but the weather up north was going to be bad sooo, we decided to stay a few more days. There are worse places to be stuck than Florida.


We had nowhere to stay but, in a church populated by the older generation, you don't stay homeless for long. They practically fought over who got us overnight, who had us for breakfast, and who got to have us over for spaghetti.


In the end Ed and Bev split us with Don and Velma overnight, and the Gottiers had us over for supper. That is where we stumbled across a suit of armor. :) many pictures followed.


Tuesday morning we woke up early and finally ventured on home. All was going well until we passed through Atlanta. The rest is history...:)


In Christ
~Michelle Wyss