I fought the humidity, and the humidity won

We just flew in from Jacksonville, Florida a few hours ago.
(boy am i exhausted!)
It was tremendous fun. We spent a long time in airports and waiting in lines and failing in competitions, but it was still amazing :)

I used to have some trouble with flying, like it kind of freaks me out to be flying hundreds of miles above the ground with nothing between us but air and clouds, but this time was kind of different. I really didn't have much trouble with fear; I sat next to either Clinton or Laura and the flights were actually enjoyable. We played card games and listened to music or watched movies on the plane. Laura and I watched Juno, which was a pretty sweet movie, I must say. We watched it about 2.5 times over the course of the trip, and listened to a few of the songs in the soundtrack such as All I Want Is You and Tree Hugger. You should go listen to them on youtube. I would totally go out and buy that soundtrack this very minute, if I had the chance (and the money).

Oh, and we also went to Steak and Shake! It's pretty much the best "fast food" restaurant you could ever go to. It was kind of funny because we were so energetic and awake at the beginning of the week, and had lots of good times and stuff, and at the end of the week we were like, "huh?" from lack of sleep.

Clinton got his Citation too. (If you didn't know, the Citation is the highest award you can get in awana, and you have to complete like 9 or something books to get it and memorize lotsa verses)

There were a LOT of people getting citations, and so they called everyones name and they got to shake hands with the founder of awana, and then shake the hands of all the missionaries of awana. It took forever, but it's a really big accomplishment and I'm proud of my brother :)

To celebrate, my aunt and uncle took us out to dinner. They live in Naples, so they drove down to see Clinton get his citation. We
walked along the pier and saw all these trees with christmas lights on them, and also we walked across a bridge that had blue lights on it to make the bridge look blue. It was so beautiful! We went to a little seafood restaurant called Benny's, and it was pretty good. It was nice and fresh.

And we went to the beach! I hadn't been to the beach in a while. We sunbathed, buried each other in sand, "mined" for shells, and jumped into some humongous waves! And got caught in some rip tides, and hung out on this nice little boardwalk with a tiger.

This little kindergartener named chris came and started hanging out with us. He was five and some of the things he said had us on the floor laughing. There was some muddy water lying nearby, and Chris's mom was telling him that they needed to leave, but he had some shells that he wanted to keep and she wouldn't let him unless he washed them off first. She told him that he could rinse them off in the muddy water, but he said it was too dirty.
"Thats as clean as its gonna get" she told him.
and he said, "Well then couldn't we put some Clorox in it?" You gotta love little kids :)

We also dug out a pretty big swimming pool in the sand and filled it with water. I didn't take any pictures of it :(

Despite putting sunscreen on multiple times during the day, we found out we were sunburned when we got back to the hotel. I am sunburned on my knees and feet; nothing terrible, and Colleen was just a little red on her back, but Evie was the worst of all. She was so burnt it was seriously hot pink-colored.
Probably the most sunburned I've ever seen anyone get, all over her back where I had SLATHERED sunscreen at least 3 times earlier that day! Queen said that she had second degree burns, so she put lotsa cream on it. <------ I love that picture because it looks like Coolaid is eating the cream. I liked our hotel. The beds were nice and soft with like 6 pillows per bed. But we didn't do much sleeping, so by the end of the week everyone was pretty sleepy/cranky/apathetic, with the exception of sudden bursts of adrenaline supported by complete and utter exhaustion. At times everything was silence, with people staring out the windows of the van or trying to get a few minutes of sleep in between going places and doing things, and other times everyone was laughing at the least little thing.
Like this burger. It looks like a little dude.
And I got a BLT that looked kinda like a bug guy :)