A few day trips

Written on 6:25 PM by Jim Harmer

Em and Ruger under a little hut in an indian village we stopped at. I'm DYING to buy one of their stuffed alligator heads.

We've made it a nightly ritual to take Ruger out each night at sunset for a little walk around the beach. He usually sleeps through it, but I think he secretly loves it.

There have been some MAJOR fires around Naples this last week. I was driving to the library and saw the police evacuating a residential street as the fire was getting close. It was really sad. I saw a mom ushering her kids into the van and just carrying everything she could fit in her arms before her house burned down. Here's a pic I took of the firefighting effort.

Cool white bird in Big Cypress National Park.

Em took this pic of Ruger lounging on the beach. It POURED rain all the sudden shortly after this picture. We all huddled under the umbrella and ran back to the car. Our condo is PERFECT because it has all of the beach chairs/umbrellas that we need for the beach. We haven't had to buy anything except food.

Emily thinks she's the boss of everything. She even tried pulling the sun up so we could stay on the beach later :-)

This is a group of alligators we saw today. We saw DOZENS of them just roaming out in the wild. There are SO MANY OF 'EM!

We went to see the Everglades today after my job interview and we didn't even make it to the park. We kept stopping beside the road because we saw so many alligators, birds, snakes, deer, fish, etc that we didn't even have time to see the Everglades! It was really fun. There's so much wildlife!

Here's a little baby alligator. We really liked watching this little guy swim around in the swamp about 5 feet from us.

We're loving Florida! I've been searching around for a job, but not too many places are real excited about hiring me only for 4 months before law school starts. I'm sure I'll find something, though.