I’m going to Florida to get out of the heat!

Well ok, maybe that isn’t the real reason we are going but we are leaving for Florida in the morning.  Tom is graduating from EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) school at Eglin AFB near Destin Florida on Friday, so the whole family (including my new future daughter-in-law) are driving down in the morning.  It’s a 12-14 hour drive so we plan on leaving between 6:30 and 7:00.  We are renting a vehicle to drive down – I wanted a mini van but they were all out a month ago when I made the reservation so we have a GMC Yukon or something similar.  I am hoping to be able to get all of our luggage (we are only going for 3 days) plus some chairs so that we can sit in comfort at the beach on Saturday. 

Our agenda is: 

Thursday – pick up the rental at 6:00am, drive all day.  I expect to be at the hotel around 9 or 10 if we get out of St. Louis on time.

Friday – graduation at 8:00am.  Then I’m sure Tom will want to show us all around.  That is pretty much Tom’s day.

Saturday – BEACH!  We are still trying to decide what we want to do.  Bill, Aubri, Tom and I want to go deep sea fishing but Erik and Austen want to go Para sailing or jet skiing.  Meghan doesn’t care as long as it involves the beach and sun!  I figure we COULD do both but the expense will decide really.

Sunday – drive home all day, drop off the rental and fall into bed exhausted!

Monday – I have to work!  From home so I can hopefully catch up on my laundry.