My dad planned a special surprise birthday outing for us birthday ladies: Drea, Lauren and I all had birthday’s in July and August. I think if you average us out, we all turned 30 this year. tee-hee 🙂
So Dad announces he is taking us out for Drea’s birthday and Aunt Ashley sweetly offered to babysit the kiddies.
(They had a blast by the way, and asked when I could leave again so she could babysit some more….)
The surprise was a Sunset Dinner Cruise!!!!!!
No joke! I was so excited!!!! I mean, you just don’t get date nights like this in Kansas.
We head upstairs on this lovely boat, to the top level, where he has reserved a table for us. We found this:
Woah! What a thoughtful Daddy I have. I was so blessed and blown away at this amazing evening he had planned for us, as well as the fact that he bought flowers for all of us and dropped them off at the boat earlier that day.
“Grrrr, Clay! Way to make us look bad!”
My new “I’m Not Mommy Tonight” shoes: My first pair of BCBG’s!!!! (they are TALL)
Man, I love the discount stores here!
The food was amaaaaaazing! Thick slabs of Prime Rib with both Creamy Horseradish & Dill sauces, Lemon Salmon with some sort of white cheese butter sauce, rice, steamed veggies, salad and rolls.
For dessert we got Key Lime Cheesecake, Red Velvet Cake and Death By Chocolate cake….then the server surprised us with this darling birthday cake!
More dessert? SURE, why not?!
At this point, we were stuffed and waddled out to the back deck to enjoy the view: First these dream homes, then later, a gorgeous sunset painted by the Creator Himself.
Thanks, Daddy for a great birthday celebration!!!!!! Between my surprise party in Kansas and this birthday cruise, I can’t imagine a better way to turn 30! 🙂
One of my goals while in Florida, is to eat as much seafood as possible. We were supposed to get to take Papa’s boat the 45 minutes it takes by sea to get to dinner, but it was POURING down rain! So we drove there instead, hoping to take the boat out afterwards. We ate at this great little sea food place. Oh man, was it ever delicious!!!!
Kansas seafood doesn’t taste quite the same now. 🙂
The rain stopped just as we finished eating, so we headed to the dock to get the boat.
Check out this “Boat Garage”, they store the boats 4 high. You just call ahead they have your boat down and ready for you to take out for the day.
Ty was in HEAVEN! He sat at the front of the boat grinning the ENTIRE TIME. Every time Papa revved the engine, he’d turn around and just grin from ear to ear. Little motor head!
Pax had that finger going left and right as fast as he could to show us “Dis” and “Dat!” Sweet big boy!!!!
It was so peaceful and the view was just stunning! I would never get tired of watching the sun melt into the ocean each evening.
Unfortunately, this was the part that Avery and I got very sea sick, it sure can sneak up on you quickly! We headed back before anyone had to sea food again. Oh, I mean see their food again. (I am cracking myself up here…..)
Once on shore, she was fine. This Momma took a bit longer to stop swaying inside, but it was all good!
What a fun way to end the day!
The last weekend we were in Florida, Papa and Drea offered to put the kids to bed for us, so Dale and I could go walk on the beach and watch the sunset. Oh my goodness, do you know how long its been since Dale and I could just walk together….no car seats, no diapers bags, no sweet sticky little hands grasping ours or sweet ones walking between us. It was wonderful!
We kicked our shoes off and strolled along the waters edge, just talking and walking until we could no longer see our blanket in the sand.
We doubled back just in time to plop down on our blanket and enjoy the sunset.
Told you I’ll never get tired of seeing the sunset down into the ocean!!!!!!
Especially in the arms of the one who still makes my heart go pitter patter.
{SIGH} It was simply wonderful!
So, are you tired of hearing about our vacation yet? Sorry, there is just so much to document! Remember, I plan to make this into a book each year for my kiddos, so bear with me. Only 1 to more post to go, maybe 2: Disney, Avery’s birthday, plus all the leftover pics that I can’t catagorize! See, that’s not so bad, right?!?!?!
~T
4 little Fergusons 