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September 14, 2006

Goodbye Summer

I figured that a gross day like today would be perfectly appropriate for an "end of summer" entry, so here are the last of my Florida pictures from the end of August.

Dolphins in the ocean:

Fishing boat:

The sky is always so gorgeous in Daytona:

At the Animal Kingdom, Brent bought my parents and my grandparents beautiful hand-carved giraffes from a tribe in Kenya:

My parents and I went mini-golfing at Congo River Golf, our favorite mini-golf course. They have live baby gators that you can feed!

Goldfish:

The theme of Congo River Golf is that you're an explorer in the congo and have to find all the items on your scavenger hunt list. If you get them all and write down the hole number where they can be found, then you get a scratch off ticket to get a discount or free mini-golf the next time you come.

Congo River Golf:

A cute little hop toad we found:

Putting my golf lessons to good use:

Weird tree trunk:

Dad and Me:

Behind the waterfall:

Another pretty sky:

Poppy, Mom, and Me:

Poppy's new blanket:

Rock Star:

Holla:

That night, there was a huge thunderstorm. I especially like this picture because you can see the sheets of rain falling:

Look how heavily the rain started falling (same view as the previous picture, just a few minutes later):

Storm Videos:

Debris left around the drain by the door:

As the storm started letting up, we all got ready to go out to dinner at a new restaurant called The North Turn. The exterior was kinda cute, but overall... it was a pretty crappy restaurant. Not much better than a standard diner... maybe worse. Don't go. I didn't think it was possible for a direct waterfront restaurant with some of the most beautiful views around to be that bad. Oh well, we had no idea so we had to give it a try.

At least we got to drive past one of my favorite beach houses:

That night, as the storm was clearing out, the sky turned the most beautiful shade of pink and we saw both ends of a giant rainbow!

The next morning we all got up early to drive back home to Connecticut. It was sad to leave Daytona, but we'll be back again next year. I took this picture on a 15 second exposure early that morning and I think it came out pretty well. I like the star in the sky and its reflection in the water:

Posted by lauren at September 14, 2006 04:04 PM

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Posted by: brent at September 16, 2006 10:50 AM