First Week of Summer Vacation

James saying goodbye to his teacher right before leaving on the last day of school. He was so excited to be done with 2nd grade, but he said he will definitely miss his teacher. I will too!

Anthony took the first week of summer vacation off of work so we could staycation at home. While driving around we passed by a few signs for local springs, so we decided to stop and check them out. Swimming isn't allowed in these springs, but it was still fun to look at them.

James was excited to discover the boil of the spring where it comes out of the ground. Nature is amazing!

The water was so clear, you could see the fish looking at you:

The second spring boil was in a little cavern:

The next spring was a hole called Green springs because of the green sulfur/algae water. Very strange! We found a little creek that we could taste test the sulfur water and James said it tasted great. No thank you!

Later in the week we drove to Gainesville to visit my mom and for Anthony to help my brother do some work on our condo. On the way there, we took a break to walk around this interesting yard art store. We pass by it every time we go to Gainesville, but we almost never stop and look around.

We ate dinner in Gainesville at a pizza place that gives kids pizza dough to play with while you wait. We waited so long, Rett started eating his pizza dough!

While Anthony worked at the condo, my mom and I took the boys to Otter springs near her house. The springs were sooooo cold!! The weather was overcast and started to rain, so we moved to the indoor heated pool. The boys loved it!! Some older boys spent hours inventing different ways to jump in the pool, so James decided to try it at the shallow end. He discovered his new favorite thing to do at the pool!

While watching movies at my mom's we realized that the remote control was missing. Since it is the only way to work the tv, we really needed to find it! We looked everywhere we could think of and couldn't find it. Then my mom offered a candy reward to the person who finds it, and what do you know James found it literally inside the couch cupholder! Apparently the bottom of the cupholder broke and the remote fell down inside of it. I couldn't believe he found the remote, that was the most impossible place for it to be!