Day 4-Fort Lauderdale, Florida

We had so much fun on Monday doing a couple of activities around Fort Lauderdale. Our first activity was a snorkeling trip on a glass-bottom boat. It was a beautiful day! 81 degrees, sunny, and calm-a perfect day out on the ocean! We rode for about 30-40 minutes out through the bay/harbor into the ocean to the spot where we stopped to snorkel. If you look closely, you can see the fish in the water by Calvin and Camden. We all got out into the ocean to swim, snorkel, and see the fish. Camden had his lifejacket and noodle and Calvin just held onto him while we were out in the water. It was so much fun!

The boat had these areas where you could look down into the water and see the fish swimming below the boat.

After about half an hour, Camden was getting a little cold, so we brought him back onto the boat and took turns snorkeling for our last half hour.

I had so much fun snorkeling! I think it was my favorite part of the trip.

We saw so many beautiful boats!

There were some HUGE boats.

And so many amazing houses.

Camden fell asleep on the way back. He was really tired after all the swimming! And when he woke up, he was very hungry! It was so cute. He said, Dad, I'm hungry! When we asked him what he wanted, he said he wanted a hamburger. We were so surprised at how much he ate! Usually he is more interested in fries or an ice cream cone, but he was a hungry little boy.

Our second activity was an airboat tour in the Everglades!

We saw some real, live, wild, alligators. Can you spot the animals in the following pictures?

Alligator....

Bird...

Turtles...

Baby alligators...this is probably the hardest one. Look to the left of the lily pads right near where the water turns to land and you may see some little stripes, that's the baby alligator.

Here's a video of part of the ride.

After the airboat ride, we got to see some of the alligators they had there.

We also got to watch this "wildlife show." This guy was hilarious. Here he is holding a baby alligator.

A little bigger...

And even bigger! He actually stuck his hand inside this alligators mouth! He showed us how he could put his hand inside the open mouth and the alligator wouldn't bite down if he didn't touch anything. But then when he put a pen inside and tapped the alligators mouth, it chomped down so hard and fast! It was crazy!

At the end of the show, we donated $3 and got to hold this live alligator!

It was such a fun day! I loved everything we did and had so much fun just being with Camden and Calvin.