Cocoa Beach Sunrise

By: Ryan



Being unemployed does have a few advantages. For example, we are able to decide last minute to spend a weekday at the beach. :-) This past Tuesday, we decided that we would get up early and drive to Cocoa Beach to watch the sunrise. The beach is a little over an hour away and sunrise was at 6:45am, so we left right around 5am to make sure we got there early enough to see the sky changing colors before the sun came up.

The beach was really nice! We both really liked it and definitely plan on going back. The only problem was the super weird sticky sand. Once it stuck to your skin, not even walking into the water would get it off. It took actual scrubbing under the little beach shower thingy to get it off. Weird. :-)

Here's a pretty cool time lapse video of the sunrise. I'll record a much better one next time. :-)




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Last Week: Our first visitors!

By: Ryan

Last week we had our first visitors from back north. Well, unless you count Aaron and Tom, but they were more hired help than houseguests. :-)

My mom and Shanna flew down last week and we had a great time during their visit. We went to Aquatica, Seaworld, Universal Studios, and Islands of Adventure. Here are some pictures from their visit:

This is Shanna and my mom in the lazy river at Aquatica, Seaworld's water park. There are actually two lazy rivers, one that requires tubes and moves slowly, and one that is no-tubes-allowed and moves very fast. The faster moving one was definitely a hit. :-)

Here's Shanna, cruising up for the kill, apparently.

Here are Shanna and Shelsy posing in front of the Blue Man Group splashing TV. The show was excellent, as always, and afterwards, Shanna and Shelsy both got "autographed." :-)

(this and all of the following pictures have been shamelessly stolen from Shanna)

Here are Shanna, Shelsy, and myself outside Islands of Adventure. I look super happy to be taking another picture, don't I? :-)

And finally, here are all four of us outside Universal Studios. Definitely a quality place.

So as you can see, we totally had an excellent time during their visit. Here's hoping they can come again soon, and that we get more visitors in the near future. :-)

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