The second part of our anniversary celebration was wonderful. Mom watched the boys for us and Mike and I spent Sat and Sunday in Miami. Wow...what a city!! We drove over early Saturday morning and went to a Museum/Botanical Garden. Wow...truly breath taking! It was gorgeous!! The house was about 32,000 square feet and right on the bay. Fabulous! We took the audio tour and it was well worth it. Instead of just wandering around marveling at all the beauty we at least got to hear a little history about the house. It was such a great tour!! Then we headed up towards Ft. Lauderdale to have lunch at a great little place right on the A1A which is right on the ocean except for a street between the restaurant and the beach! It was another gorgeous view! The lunch was great too! We got to enjoy our lunch with a great view and also watch some crazy expensive cars go by and interesting people walk by. Mike had actually been to Ft. Lauderdale many, many years back and remembered taking a great water taxi ride to the mall. We called about it and then walked to where we needed to be picked up. It wasn't far at all from where we had lunch. The water taxi pulled right up to like a sea wall type spot and picked us up. We rode it to the next stop which was the one to get off and go to the mall. We walked around the mall a bit and did a little anniversary shopping :-) then we headed back to the water taxi. We decided to take a little longer tour on the water taxi so that we could see the million dollar homes and yachts. Well let me tell you.....what a site!! The houses were unbelievable but for me the yachts were the spectacle! I have seen mansions, but these yachts were huge! The water taxi driver gave us some history as we were riding and one of the yachts were 52 million! yes..52 million!! Crazy!! We also saw a yacht that had a helicopter pad on it, two small boats, 3 or 4 jet skis and a 3 man submersible submarine!! Really??!!! Crazy!! It looked just like this!!
Our day lasted longer than expected in Ft. Lauderdale but we had a great time. We finally finished with the water taxi around 8pm, only because we had missed one of the pick ups but that's ok. We enjoyed the sites and the weather while waiting on the next one. We were spending the night in Boca Raton so we drove up to our hotel, changed clothes and headed out for dinner. Needless to say the evening went fast and we were exhausted. Morning came early and we enjoyed a wonderful poolside breakfast at the hotel restaurant before he headed to Miami South Beach to check out the sites. It was pretty hot, so I'd really like to go back when it's a few degrees cooler. It would be more enjoyable to take in the sites and we could explore a little more with more time. We walked up and down Ocean Drive and saw fancy cars, crazy people and a $45 drink! Ha! No we didn't order it! Are you kidding, we got up from that street side cafe and kept walking! ha ha!! It was a fun experience though and we had a great time!!
Well Dev made the core soccer team at school!! yay!! We are very proud of him. He is one of only two 5th graders that made the core team!! His first game was last Thursday. He played great and even had a shot or two on goal. He didn't score but he had great effort. After the game another kids parents approached Mike about Devin joining the developmental league. He had seen Dev play and wanted to see if Dev was interested. Dev stayed and played a scrimmage game with the team. I wasn't there for the scrimmage but Mike said they played a U12 girls team. Dev is U10. He said the girls were awesome and played hard against Dev and the team. Dev did score a goal in the scrimmage though..wow!! Great job. We will find out a little more information this week about the developmental team and see if Dev will join them or not.
Devin also had his first week of safety patrol at school last week. The fifth graders rotate in helping the other younger kids cross the street at school and even walk the really young ones to class. I hid in the parking lot one morning after I dropped him off so I could snap some pictures! Ha ha!! He knew I was going to be doing it, but I wanted to try to stay out of sight so I didn't embarrass him in front of his friends. He really likes helping the younger kids.
This past Saturday Bry competed in his 2nd TKD tournament. We are so proud of him!! He did great!! He fought two matches and won both of them. The 1st match he won 3-1 and the 2nd he won 10-0. So he won 1st place in his division. I could really tell that he wasn't as nervous as he was for the 1st tournament that he competed in. Bry will start soccer practice in a few weeks and I know he is ready to play again. He has been wanting to play more tennis at our clubhouse. Who knows, we might need to find him some tennis lessons! He told me he wants to do other sports so he can be good at more than just soccer. Love it!! Bry was also student of the week last week for his class :-). The boys are doing wonderful in their new school!!
So only 2 1/2 weeks away and Dev will be 11 yrs old!! Wow!! I think we are going to have a pool party for him at the club house with a few of his friends and some snacks and cake.
4 weeks and it will be my race in Disney! yay!! I'm so excited!! The boys and Mike will also be in Disney that same weekend visiting a friend of Mike's. I'm hoping maybe Sunday I can meet up with them and weather depending we can go to Blizzard Beach water park. Yes, I know it's October but we are in Florida remember!! The last time we went to Blizzard beach our day was cut short by thunderstorms. The boys are much better swimmers now and enjoy the water slides even more so it would be a blast!
While cleaning out some boxes this past weekend I found some old VCR tapes. I also found our VCR so after some trouble shooting and replacing a fuse we actually got it to work! Fun! We watched an ultrasound of Devin in my stomach, some of our wedding reception, part of a Jamaica trip, and some old TKD tourney and testing stuff of Mike and I before kids! Wow! Now I need to get these all transferred onto DVD before something happens to the tapes!
Well I think that's all for now. I'm hopeful to upload some pics to share tonight. Toodles!
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