4th=Fun!

This is effectively our last weekend with Jazzy, so we tried to make it as fun as possible. The 4th was filled with playing at the pool, arts & crafts, movies (introduced to my childhood FAVE Princess Bride for the first time!) and outside our front door, fireworks at night.

Saturday, we took off early in the morning and drove over to Mill Dam Lake. It's a bit of a change, for native Southern Floridians to make the trade - beach for lake, but it was nice. Tons of shady oak trees, dripping with Spanish Moss, a white sand beach, beautiful clear, blue, fresh water and about 18 signs warning us of the presence and danger of black bears! Like I said - different, but nice. Trading sharks, man-o-war, sea lice and sand lice for black bears and alligators. Did I say alligators? No! Never in fresh water lakes of inland Florida! ;0) We had so much fun swimming and building sand castles, grilling and just being together.

Sunday, we awoke to please of Cuck E. Cheese and succumbed to the visceral whines. After a morning spent within the 4th dimension of hell (cheesy, disposable toys included), we made a quick stop at McD's for happy meals. More crafts, video games and fun throughout the afternoon and a beautiful dinner made by Jeremy to round out the evening.

Tomorrow is the beginning of soccer camp and nearly 2 hours of roundtrip driving per day for me. Kill me now. I have become what I dreaded most. I am. A Soccer mom.