Marco Island 2013

We got back a few weeks ago from our annual Marco Island trip. This year my parents wanted to join us and we rented a nice 3 bedroom house with a pool! Ben, Vince & I headed down on Saturday-we flew into Ft Lauderdale instead of Ft Meyers this year since it would be a direct flight. We decided that an extra hour or so in the car was worth it in exchange for a direct flight. This was our first trip that we had to buy Ben his own plane ticket so we brought his car seat on with us and we were pleasantly surprised how well Ben did! He never asked to get out of his car seat-he kept busy with new toys and new videos on my iPad. He even took a snoozer! The first night we ordered pizza from our favorite pizza place and just relaxed. Our first full day on the island started at our favorite breakfast spot and then we spent the day at the beach! Ben had such a great time on the beach! He loved being in the water, building sandcastles and "feeding the turtles" (throwing shells back into the water)! My parents got in Monday around dinner time. Ben was so excited to see them! The rest of the trip was spent at the pool or on the beach! Ben was such a fish in the pool. We could not get him out of it! He would put on his floaties and go and go and go. I think we may have a future swimmer on our hands. We also enjoyed good food and good drinks! We went to all our favorite restaurants at least once. We did do one thing we had not done before and that was going on a shelling. We took a short boat trip out to a little island and had the whole island to ourselves! We spent a few hours walking the island and picking shells. Ben had a great time he was so excited to see dolphins swimming by the boat. We found a ton of shells! And of course Vince insisted that we bring them all home with us because he just couldn't pick his favorites! The week went by way to fast as it always does. It was such a great time and we loved showing my parents why we love Marco so much.