Florida - Happy video

Inspired by the song and Pharrell Williams' feel good video we decided to make our own version!

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.

 

Florida - Kayaking

Still some Florida Posts to catch up on...

On the nicest and warmest day of the week we rented kayaks for a few hours to float around in St Joseph Bay (our beach house was by the pin).

Because the bay is only about 4 feet deep on average, it is truly amazing what you can see on the bottom.

1. Sea urchin, 2. Welk spirals (this is how baby shells are 'born'), 3. Horseshoe crab, 4. Live shell

We also saw normals crabs, jumping fish, rays, beautiful shells and more. Really very special.

 

 

 

Crawfish

Another first for the season: crawfish!!!!

I think I post about this every year but we just love them so much. When they bring out the tray with pounds of beautiful, red, freshly boiled crawfish and of course the bucket of ice cold beers, summer has started!

 

Pool season has started

Even though it is still way too cold for me (pool T around 22 degC), Thijs and the girls were determined and officially opened pool season! I did it my way by having a margarita by the side of the pool :)

 

I-10

After my road trip post about the I-10 earlier this week I happened to come across this picture today and felt I had to share it. This is how wide and busy the I-10 is where it goes through Houston. What an incredible amount of concrete.....

 

Florida - Find your beach

Lots of posts this week after some radio silence on my side. I always find it especially hard to keep this blog up to date when we have been on holiday as so much happens and we have so many pictures to sort through. So this time I thought I would try to keep up and post as we go. So far so good (although I'm still a few behind).

Here in the States, Corona have a commercial series and the main theme is 'find your beach'. The idea behind it is that anywhere you can relax and enjoy your Corona is your beach. Well, I have found mine!

 

100th Geocache and more!

Haven't had a geocache post in a while but we are still going strong! Today is the day we found our 100th geocache! 'Applausje voor jezelf' we would say in Holland (roughly translated: give yourself a hand).

In geocaching they have added an extra dimension in the form of travel bugs. These are tags with a unique tracking number. They are moved from cache to cache by geocachers and its movements can be tracked online at www.geocaching.com.

We have had two of these tags for nearly a year now with the intention of putting them into our own cache. This however, has not happened yet but we thought it was about time they started their journey. Today was the day, as the 100th geocache seemed like the perfect occasion.

Both Famke and Floortje got one each. For those of you who don't know our girls very well, the pink one is Famke's, the orange one Floortje's.

You should give them a name and Thijs came up with these ones.

Both girls decided they did not want to place their travel bugs in the same cache. So after the toss of a coin Floortje's ended up in the 100th find.

The 101st find was rejected by Famke so hers ended up in the 102nd one.

We can't wait to see where they will go and are every excited about this new dimension to our geocaching adventures! We'll keep you updated.