




Christmas was a bit surreal this year. While everyone else was focused on Holiday shopping and festivities, John & I were focused on packing up our worldly posessions and getting our butts down to FLA. For us, Christmas came a bit early in the form of a 35 ton truck filled with boxes, and boxes, and boxes to be opened. We hadn't seen most of this stuff for 2 years! It is official.....we have too much stuff.
Christmas morning started with the daily check of our "backyard biology experiment". Just about every household here in FL has one, except most of our neighbors call theirs "swimming pools". Ours is still not ready to swim in, so we headed to Dog Beach on Lover's Key. We packed up Gunther & Melinda and we were on our way! The great news is that we are exactly 9 miles from Ft. Myers beach! Lovers Key is a State Park south of Ft. Myers Beach, just inside the city limits of Bonita Springs.
When we arrived, our spastic canine friends almost lost their collective minds. SO many dogs running, swimming, playing frisbee, and sniffing each others butts. The sun was shining and the water was crystal clear. This is how we spent Christmas Day: