Weekend Visit

This weekend, we were so happy to have my aunt Kathie fly down for a visit. She arrived Friday afternoon and stayed through Sunday evening. It was her first visit since we moved to Jacksonville and it was so fun to see her. When we lived in Maine, we got to see Kathie and Jan (hubby) more frequently as they live in NYC. Jan is in South Carolina doing an opera so he couldn't make it.

We just sorta chilled and tried to get out and see some sights. We had hoped on Saturday to hit the shrimp festival but we drastically underestimated the travel time and additionally got stuck in the ferry line for a bit so we didn't make it to the festival but were able to see some beautiful sights on the way. Sunday we took the boat out on the lake and went up Swimming Pen Creek. This was an exciting trip as it was my FIRST sighting of an alligator in it's natural habitat. I've only ever seen them at the zoo....or Disney.... it was COOL! We had anchored to BBQ our lunch and kept seeing something disturb the top of the water. It was close.... then finally the big guy surfaced, showed us his entire huge body and just kinda stayed in that spot the rest of the time. He (or she) kept coming up for air every once in awhile but you could see it under the water. So fun!!!

We returned home after just a few hours - it was a hot day - and watched Sydney play out back.