Christmas 2010 Everglade park

The trip felt as if I went on a birding outing.  We saw birds at the different various parks.  Here are a few.

Christmas 2010 with the family

This year, we went to Naples, Florida.  Brian and I had been hoping it would be really warm in Florida since it is in the South.  Well, we were wrong.  They had a freak freezing below average Christmas.  The windows were all frosted with NO ice scraper.  The airboat ride was so cold.  This is the fourth vacation in a row that we have had unseasonably cold weather.

It all started in Dominican Republic.  The first day was too hot for me and I asked for just a few days of cool weather for me to adjust.  The weather dropped 20 degrees, the humidity disappeard and it rained for 5 days.  Then in Galapagos, I was afraid of overheating in my thick wetsuit so I hoped it wouldn't be too hot.  The water was unseasonably cool in the mid 60s and lower.  There wasn't a single sunny day to heat our black wetsuits.  In Seattle I thought, I want to go snow showing in the mountains.  I didn't expect us to have a freak blizzard accumulating inches in snow that stopped traffic for over 5 hours.  So... this last trip this year, I thought, what could go wrong?  It can't be that cold in Florida.  WRONG!  I'm starting to think I bring a chill with me everywhere I go.