My Favorite Vacation

On this trip, we got to go canoeing!

When given the prompt for what to right this sponsored blog post on, I had to think for a while. Not on coming up with something to write, but rather what to not write! I have so many crazy traveling stories from the months (yes, months!) I've spent traveling! However, one big one comes to mind.

It was the Winter that I was 14 (until February 17th, when I turned 15). My family and I (including little brother who at the time was 13) all found ourselves down in sunny Florida for the Winter (who wants the negative 50 degree winter's of MN?). For the first two months, we stayed in a private campground about an hour south of Disneyworld. Now, the town that we stayed in had hardly a thing to do. A little flea market, a library, a small antique shop with a crabby lady working in it, and that was about it to do there activity wise! Oh wait, there was a country club that we could go to for free because of the deal the campground we were staying at had made with the club - however, the country's club had an unheated outdoor pool that was 60 degrees - believe me, it was freezing (yup, we swam in it many times!). The campground that we were staying at also didn't have much to do....unless you count Bingo and shuffle board (Adam and I made friends with the greatest elderly man who was 70 something going on 17, and we played hours upon hours of shuffleboard). Pretty soon two teenagers living in a campground in a camper for months on ends, get a wee bit (ok, more than a wee bit) stir crazy!

Meet Jim (or Jimbo) the camp owner. We soon made friends and when his son, who was around 7 or 8, came to the campground from New York, the fun began. Jim, his son, and his little girl Ali (who I babysit a lot) Adam and I learned how to disk golf with them. We also bikes miles upon miles with them, and we even petted a giraffe that a neighbor had as a pet! Spending time with them made time go buy much quicker. It was sad when we left the campground, however, we were looking forward to spending a few more months farther down south in Florida.

This Winter we spent in Florida was wonderful, we had so much fun (despite going a bit stir crazy!) and I'm looking forward to visiting Florida again some day!

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