The second leg of our Florida adventures found us at Maw Maw and Paw Paw's house, where there was no shortage of sun, sand and seagulls. Feeding the birds in Florida with Jimmy always takes me back to the memory of the first time he came home with me for a visit. We were out in our huge canal-front back yard when we decided that we should give the seagulls a little snack. Jimmy ran inside and returned with what he thought was the perfect treat - a large ziplock bag of little toasted bread squares. The birds loved them! A few hours later we heard mom wandering around the kitchen searching for that bag of croutons she had made for the salad, when we realized that we'd fed the birds part of our dinner! It was our leftover lunch that the seagulls got today and they weren't complaining a bit.

We also got to meet Rachel, Alex and Naomi at the beach for some wave riding and sand sculpting. It was quite cold and the rinse-off shower at the end of our time wasn't the most popular part, but even still that hour was one of their favorite things we did on the whole trip. And it might be a coincidence, but it was right after that afternoon in the salt air that everyone's cough seemed to die down for the first time in months. I'll take that prescription!