Everglades

This weekend was super fun! I'm so tired from it all. We did so many things. Here's a summary/the short version since I don't want everyone to have to read a super long, long post.

Saturday morning: 9am went to dive shop for my first open water dive. My instructor's name was Sven...he's absolutely hilarious! From Germany, pro-triathlete. The picture on the right is us diving at Venice Beach. We're that super tiny little blob far out in the water. It was a long swim out there. We did 2, 20 minute dives to 20 feet. I made it through all the skills really quickly and didn't have any problems. It was really fun. After my dives, it was close to 1pm so Patrick and I jumped in the car and made our way southeast to Marie's. It took 3 hours to get there but we made a 30 min. stop in Naples for food/free slurpees from 7-11. This is a picture of a swamp buggy on the left and on the right is Jimmy and Marie's cabin:


This is a picture of riding in the buggy.It's so much fun!! You get all muddy and it's a really rough ride but it's pretty country.

These are pictures from the ride. These are the buggy trails they drive on. This one below is a lake that was made when the gov. decided to make an emergency landing runway for a super sonic jet that's 3 mi. long and so they dug out to pile up the land for the runway.



This is right in front of their cabin. We barbequed burgers and ate inside in the a/c since the bugs are at their worst right about now. Patrick really enjoyed the trip and had a lot of fun he said. We left rather late at like 11:30 so we didn't get home til 2 but it was alright, I slept most of the trip back once we got back on 75 so I wouldn't be too tired for my dive the next morning.