WE FINALLY GOT TO TRY BUTTERBEER!!!!

We made it to Island's of Adventure for the Harry Potter Theme Park!  We must say that they did a fabulous job with all the detail they put into re-creating Hogsmeade...we really felt like we were walking on the set of the Harry Potter Movies! Our first stop was Honeydukes, those are chocolate frogs above...they had chocolate that fizzed in your mouth...CRAZY it must have been magic!

This is the view as you walk into Hogsmeade...see all the people...lets just say rule number one NEVER visit Orlando the week before or after Easter!!!! It was so packed that we had to stand in a long line once we got into the park to get a ticket to stand in line to get into the Harry Potter part!!! Madness!

We rode the Jarassic Park ride and made some friends from England as we were waiting...has anyone heard of "Wellies"  that is what they call their rain boots and they thought I was crazy for not knowing what that meant...haha!

I read this whole book in Dr.Suess Land...I LOVE OOBLECK and I have never had the chance to read the whole book....Christmas gift idea right there family :-)

Poseidon rescued us from evil....this walk through entertainment was more Seth's style when it comes to theme parks....poor guy got light headed on every ride we went on!  

All aboard! Hogwarts Express!!!

PUMPKIN JUICE PUMPKIN JUICE PUMPKIN JUICE!!! Rule number two buy PUMPKIN JUICE at the three broomsticks...much much cheaper...this baby cost us a good 8 bucks...we weren't expecting that!

This is where the big Harry Potter ride is located inside of Hogwarts....it was a two hour wait all day long for this ride!  I had a smile on my face throughout the whole ride...they did an amazing job...I really felt like I was  playing Quiddich!

Frozen Butterbeer had some great foam! We are eating lunch in the Three Broomsticks all the employees are dressed up and they are playing a character...they all call us Muggles...haha!

Olivander's Wand Shop....so so so many wands!

PALM BEACH AND AMAZING SEA TURTLE SIGHTING

This is the G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S rindin' first class area of Palm Beach Florida! I love to drive down a street lined in Palm trees! We headed over to the Atlantic side to try to catch some waves, but as you can see in the pictures below there were NO WAVES to be found, but the water temperature was perfect and the Juno Beach was beautiful...our day was full of swimming, reading, iPod, chatting, sun bathing, and ton's of frizz-bee! 

We went out to sushi after the beach waiting on midnight so we could go look for Loggerhead Sea Turtles lay their eggs on the beach!  They counted 45 new nests that moring on just one stretch of beach!!!

BEALLS is EVERYWHERE down here....EVERYWHERE there are more of those stores than Wal-Marts! 
They are just a discount clothing store...but not nearly as good as good ole' TJ MAXX!!!! 

Loggerhead Turtle nest that has been protected by getting tapped off so the public won't trample the eggs under the sand.

We started roaming the beach around midnight not really knowing what to look for...we had heard that the turtles were pretty big (but we had no idea how big they really were!!) and to look for their tracks coming up the beach, also we were told to shine the light out into the ocean and the sea turtle should look like a big blob of sea weed floating ashore. Seth was on ocean patrol and I was on track patrol....after about 45 minutes, some odd people on the beach, and a few dozen bites later all hope of finding a turtle was diminishing at exponentiation rates! Poor Seth had to drive three hours home that nights so we were already tired and knew we had a long drive ahead of us....so we were just walking back to the car and right about as we were getting ready to walk off the beach...there she was...we ran right into her!!!

WE WERE SO SO SO SO EXCITED!!! She had already started digging her next with her back fins and this procedure was very rhythmic and instinctive.  It was a magnificent site...we were both standing there in awe of the Lord's beautiful creation and creativity!! After we had been watching the trutle for about 10 minutes some kid comes randomly running up and I shined my light on him and then the trutle so he wouldn't run into her and disturb her (it was pitch black). No words had been exchanged yet and when he saw what we were looking all he could say was...well in Brooke's censored version "OH SHOOT, OH MY GOSH, WOW, OH SHOOT!" That is all he could say...and he was in instant awe just as we were....amazing how the Lord's beauty is the same to his entire creation. This boy was in the middle of running from the cops, but in the midst of that chos he was captured and stood their with us for a good 20 minutes relishing in the Lord's beauty and creation!  

The Lord spoke to once more that night and the verse

 "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it"    -Proverbs 22:6 

This was just speaking about the importance of our roots and how the Lord demonstrates scripture through his creation, because this sea turtle was born on this exact beach....she came back to her roots once she got old enough to start her own family.  Praise Jesus for such an intimate time with him that night!

SHARK TOOTH BEACH

So there we are representin' the big M-O with two Route 44 Sonic Cups and a Frizz-bee as our sifting gear, while everyone else had these fancy sifters that you just scooped up jiggled and looked for teeth! As the pros were in their routine you saw Seth's feet flailing out of the water as he was trying to dig to the deeper sand and fill up the Sonic cup with that sand without breaking the cup....fun times haha!   

We found about five teeth....not as many as we were expecting (I had been before and we found tons when I went with my family) and it was kind of discouraging to see all the 'pros' pulling out teeth left and right. So we just layed back watched their success and vowed when we came back that we were going to chuck out the 17 bucks and buy the gear...haha!

This is like a 3000.00 tooth!!!! Now is that incentive of what!!!  Note: this is taken through a glass...we unfortunately didn't find the Megladon tooth!

We went to this old time Ice Cream Soda Fountain Bar where we split a vanilla soda with chocolate ice cream float...I so could have lived in the 50's!

BODY SURFING IN SANIBEL

 On our way over the 6.00 toll bridge to get to Sanibel Island!

 Happy Hour Sonic Drink in hand = Ready for a day at the beach

 Hey Good Lookin' lets go play in the waves! The water temperature was perfect! We had so much fun riding the waves in and diving through the waves!

I am finally getting into the book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

Yo Yo Yo SARAH BENSON IS IN THE FORT!!!