Mickey, Mermaids and Gators...Oh My!

Oh! and toilet seat covers!
In California we have toilet seat covers. (not that I ever sit on the toilet anyway) I'm a squatter. But in Texas I realized none of the public bathrooms had toilet seat covers. Then someone told me it's a California thing and no states have seat covers. So, I've been doing bathroom checks and checking for seat covers....

Look at Florida's seat covers.
Fancy!
It automatically turns. I hate public bathrooms but when you have little ones it seems that every time you stop somewhere one of them has to use the potty so I've seen a lot of different toilets in different states. Florida so far wins for best toilets.




We arrived in Florida last Friday.
It rained all day and there was a slight possibility of a hurricane because of La Nina...
I thought I was going to die in a Walmart parking lot.
We prayed and tucked the kids in bed and hoped we would all be there in one piece when we woke up.
We lived!




And the rest of our stay ended up being beautiful weather. We stayed 6 days in Florida!


We went to a nature center where the kids learned about Gators.



Since we lived through the hurricane warnings, we figured we would being daring again and take the kids on an air boat ride.
Looking for Gators....


I just so happened to pull up a place on the Internet that offered coupons...Ok, this was no commercial like gator air boat ride. This was real hick huntin' gator people.
I should of taken the first clue, when I called and it was the guys cell phone. He told me just to look for a guy in an orange hat and he will direct us to the boat.
My husband just looked at me like, what have you gotten us into this time.

"Meet Gator hunter Joe" our captain...

He greeted us with," my oh my look at all this gator bait!" (He didn't laugh after he said it either) haha!
Faith was not to sure of the whole thing....

Captain Joe wasn't messing around. We even saw a cotton mouth snake. I was more scared of that thing climbing a tree and jumping in our boat that I was of the gators.



If you look close in these pictures you can see some gators...


Captain Joe ended up being nice and let this cute little gator bait sit in the drivers seat.

We have been seeing all this Spanish moss all over the trees in the last couple of states we have been in. We don't have it in California (or at least I have never seen it) I didn't realize it's an air plant and is a member of the pineapple family.

And if that wasn't enough gators for us.......

We headed to the Florida Gators stadium. (on game day)
Last Saturday we cooked up some hot dogs and other game day snacks and had our own party at the stadium. Even though it was a sad day. We still had a good time.

(I just noticed Faith in this picture) haha!


Doin' the gator chomp....


Landen thought it was funny to keep gator chomping my head....

Well, I thought I'd get to the Mickey and Mermaid pictures but I guess I will have to save that for another post. We have an RV that needs to get decorated:) And a tree to cut down and get put up in this rig:)


See you in Disney World!...........