Surprise!
Our favorite person is a year older today!! Happy birthday GJ! We love you and think you are the very bestest!!!
More Philly
Saturday afternoon we continued our historical tour with Independence Hall…
Everyone was really excited. 😉
Especially Robert!
Just as the tour was starting, Samantha caught the edge of a sign with her head. She started crying but I was trying to tell her she was going to be fine…until I saw the blood. Oh yes, lots of blood!
Thankfully it was just a tiny cut on her head and, after a popsicle and an ice pack, she was doing just fine!
A light pink tint to her hair but much better!
We then headed over to the Museum of the American Revolution with some new treasures from the gift shop!
Best picture ever!
The Museum was really neat…and really long! I think Robert could have stayed in there all day.
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That night we went to dinner at Ralph’s, the oldest Italian restaurant in the US! It was delicious and a good end to a good day!
Philly
We took a little adventure over the long weekend to the city of brotherly love and we sure did have a fun time! We flew up Saturday morning and met up with GJ and Keath and fam to take in the sights and see some history! First stop? The Liberty Bell!
The famous crack!
We then made our way around some historical buildings…
and headed to Reading Terminal Market for lunch. Cheesesteaks of course!
One thing Philly has is tons of art! Lots and lots of public art on display and it’s all pretty cool! Samantha particularly enjoyed it all!
We made our way to the famous LOVE park…where the LOVE sign was much smaller than I imagined!
This sign was much more the size I was imagining!
More Philly fun to come tomorrow!
The very best
We had the very best GJ in the world in Birmingham for the past two weeks. We loved every second of having her here! She kept the kids while Robert and I went on a fun trip and they didn’t miss us one bit. Well, Samantha might have missed me a little bit but GJ handled my little drama queen with no issues! The kids spent every night at her house even after we got back. They obviously love having her around as much as I do! She might have even earned herself a new title while in town, Assistant to the President of the PTO! A very prestigious title indeed!!
She headed back to Florida yesterday and we’re already ready for her to come back! The President needs her right hand lady!
Thanks for everything GJ. What would we do without you?!
More Naples
Like I said yesterday, we did all of our favorite things in Naples…and plenty of adventures that the kids talked us into! Robert took Spencer and Samantha on the jet ski…
Maxwell talked us into braving the heat for mini golf.
He and Robert both got a hole in one!
I’m not sure what happened here but GJ looks pretty pleased!
The kids knew hot to cool off afterward!
We also played tennis together for the first time down there. It ended about how I thought it would…
ha! The rackets were old and the grips were disintegrating and Samantha’s turned her hands black! Combine that with a good ball to the face by Robert and she was done! But, Maxwell and I played again another day and had a lot of fun and then I took all 3 kids back out on our last day and it was an overall success!
Of course we shot fireworks on the 4th…
and made CCCs!
We also took on another sand dollar project just liked we did in 2020…
and saw lots of movies – Maverick, the Minions, and Lightyear! The kids drank a lot of Roy Rogers on the beach…
and they all tried – and liked! – calamari!
Of course, the only question is…
when are we going back?!