Michelle comes to visit

Kevin's sister came to visit. We had a great time. We took her to Gainesville where my brother Ryan is currently living (dental school) with his wife, who's expecting their first child in October. We went tubing down a river. This is something I told myself I would never do in Florida because you never know if an alligator or poisonous snakes might pop up. Luckily we didn't see any alligators. We did however get followed by a snake which came inches from our raft. I think he was just curious. After we screamed like school girls for what seemed like hours he went on his way. Usually I wouldn't be so freaked out but I didn't know if it was poisonous or not and he looked like he was going to attack. The river was nice and cold. Kevin and Michelle swam a lot. I did for about 3 minutes but the thought of something creeping up next to me was too much so I stayed in the raft with the kids. We saw lots of turtles and fish. It was great.

We also went to a bat house on campus where 60,000 bats live and fly out at dusk. It's really neat to watch. Our kids loved it. You can see the bat house in the right hand corner of the picture where everyone is waiting by the fence for the bats to come out.

We also went to "the Swamp" where the gators play. The stadium holds close to 90,000 people. It's huge! Going up the bleachers was Boston's favorite part which he did all by himself. He doesn't want help with anything anymore and the kid has no fear.

And who comes to Florida with out going to the beach?