On Wednesday, Kaylee had her first college visit to the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Kaylee and I had the best day touring the campus. She declared "I'm in love" when referring to her #1 school of choice. Kaylee wants to attend a big university with big time college sports, as she wants to be able to attend the games as part of her college experience. She was impressed that the students get free admission to games. I was excited to learn about that some of the 1000 organizations available include bible studies and other Christian orgs like Young Life and FCA, that gave my mama heart some peace.
When we returned we took our birthday boy out to a dinner of his choice. We had a yummy meal and the following day continued the festivities by watching Batman at the Ocala Drive In Theater. We sure love our birthday boy!!! He's the best!!!
On Thursday, we visited Silver Springs State Park near Ocala. This park proved to be our favorite. We began our park tour by kayaking through the Caribbean blue waters, which was absolutely gorgeous. After kayaking we hiked through the park, which was pretty great too.
On Friday, we drove to Orlando, so Kaylee could meet up with Lily Ford, one of her BFFs from Iowa. Lily was traveling with her choir group from Marion High School to visit all the theme parks in Orlando. Friday was her last day and it was spent at Universal Studios, our favorite!!! Kaylee had a great time with Lily and her friends exploring Harry Potter World and riding a few rides. Unfortunately, given that it was spring break, everyone and their brother, sister, and cousin were there. The lines were extremely long, so the kids were only able to ride a few rides before it was time to leave. We did manage to squeeze in a meal at our favorite City Walk restaurant, Cowfish. We even splurged on the milkshakes. After dinner we headed back to Gainesville, for the girls basketball tournament.
Honestly, I don't even remember how their teams did, what I do remember is that Kianna ended up spraining her ankle badly. She wasn't able to bear weight on hit for three days, so I had to take her to urgent clinic. The x-ray was negative thankfully, but she did a job on her ligaments and even her tendons, which led to her being out for five weeks...
It was a busy, go go go, type of week, but we saw the beauty of God's creation, had a first college visit, had a bad injury, and made some new memories together. All in all, it was a great week!
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