Beach Week

As I mentioned, we arrived in Tampa on Sunday night. We drove for around an hour to Siesta Keys, where everyone was waiting for us. Of course, having been up for a very long time, the kids went straight from being asleep in the car to being asleep in bed. In the morning they were delighted to discover they were at the beach, in a house with a big swimming pool and small swimming pool, where they could swim all day with their cousins.

So swimming (interspersed with half price oysters) made up the first four days of our trip here. Then we took a 2 day road trip from Florida to Missouri, stopping overnight in Athens, GA. The kids were very well behaved throughout - I guess they like road trips as much as I do

On the way we saw a train laden with coal, presumably for Santa/Father Christmas to use to fill the stockings of all the kids who were bad this year. I told Bluet this, but she does not believe even bad kids get coal.

 Now we're at the Brunot farm, where soon we'll go choose a Christmas tree, and see the new baby cows