Sunday, August ninth, my best friend Meredith and I flew out to Ft Myers, FL to meet my parents & then drove down with them to Sanibel Island, where my family and our friends had been going every year from the time I was born until I was about 7 or so. This was our first time going down there since then. My parents had already been there the past week.
After we arrived in Ft Myers, Mere & I went to lunch with my parents and then went to the grocery store before heading to the island. At said grocery store, we picked up this awesome float that almost was lost when it attempted to make an escape from the bed of the truck. So we put it in the truck with us for safekeeping. Obviously there wasn't enough room.
Beautiful first look at the island
Brett & his dog Bailey a few houses down the row from ours
Dad's truck & our neighbor's house.
What ended up becoming the daily routine:
Mere & I floated for a few hours while the daddies fished.
Dinner the first night on the island @ Biddles Bucket
We ended up having a little photoshoot with him. These were two of the many pictures. (: Haha what fun.
This AWESOME tree out back at the cutest ice cream shop I've ever seen in my life.
That night we went back to the ice cream shop with my parents to actually get ice cream & ended up taking even more pictures. Story of my life.
Didn't get to eat here, but I was obsessed with this restaurant! It was completely Alice in Wonderland themed. (:
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th.
After we arrived in Ft Myers, Mere & I went to lunch with my parents and then went to the grocery store before heading to the island. At said grocery store, we picked up this awesome float that almost was lost when it attempted to make an escape from the bed of the truck. So we put it in the truck with us for safekeeping. Obviously there wasn't enough room.
Beautiful first look at the island
Brett & his dog Bailey a few houses down the row from ours
Dad's truck & our neighbor's house.
What ended up becoming the daily routine:
Mere & I floated for a few hours while the daddies fished.
Dinner the first night on the island @ Biddles Bucket
MONDAY, AUGUST 10th.
I really wanted to buy a longboard ever since Brien got me interested in it. So I decided I'd look around for one on the island. I didn't think about the fact that everything on an island like that is going to be touristy and overpriced. So we decided the next day we'd go shopping off the island in Ft Myers and I'd look around for one there. After a full day of shopping at various shopping complexes, we finally found a few places that sold boards I liked. Somehow I convinced Meredith to buy one as well. (:
Mere's board is the top one, mine is the bottom.
Going across the bridge on the way back to the island.
Looked like it was going to drop us off into nothingness. (:
Meredith, myself & Emily at The Pink Flamingo for
dinner with both my family as well as Emily's. (:
Meredith & I planned what we didn't realize would turn into an all day longboarding excursion. We started out at our beach house, and longboarded all the way to the shopping street, and then all the way back home. It was at least a good 3 miles each way. At one point I ended up losing my cell phone and we had to back track to find it. By the time we finally got back to our house, we went straight to the pool and hopped in.
Stopping for Mt Dew slushies at the Seven 11. (: Delicious!
We stopped to buy bandaids at this little shopping center. The bandaids I bought were toast shaped (I kid you not) and this little guy was a prize inside the box. (:
I really wanted to buy a longboard ever since Brien got me interested in it. So I decided I'd look around for one on the island. I didn't think about the fact that everything on an island like that is going to be touristy and overpriced. So we decided the next day we'd go shopping off the island in Ft Myers and I'd look around for one there. After a full day of shopping at various shopping complexes, we finally found a few places that sold boards I liked. Somehow I convinced Meredith to buy one as well. (:
Mere's board is the top one, mine is the bottom.
Going across the bridge on the way back to the island.
Looked like it was going to drop us off into nothingness. (:
Meredith, myself & Emily at The Pink Flamingo for
dinner with both my family as well as Emily's. (:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11th.
Stopping for Mt Dew slushies at the Seven 11. (: Delicious!
We stopped to buy bandaids at this little shopping center. The bandaids I bought were toast shaped (I kid you not) and this little guy was a prize inside the box. (:
We ended up having a little photoshoot with him. These were two of the many pictures. (: Haha what fun.
This AWESOME tree out back at the cutest ice cream shop I've ever seen in my life.
That night we went back to the ice cream shop with my parents to actually get ice cream & ended up taking even more pictures. Story of my life.
Didn't get to eat here, but I was obsessed with this restaurant! It was completely Alice in Wonderland themed. (:
