Thanksgiving family reunion

How do you get 7 kids and 5 adults from three different states across the country... not easily. Eric, the girls and I drove from Medford to San Francisco to fly out on a red eye with my Sister's family. We left at 12pm our time and arrived in Florida at 8am their time. My mom left the day before and flew from Salt Lake to Florida and spent the night. We met up with her on the ship. 

Although I had ear plugs and sleep aids for everyone, we were still exhausted when we got off the airplane. Ruby and Jacob are HUGE fans of the TV show Gator Boys, so we took the kids to go on a airboat gator tour and watch a Gator Boys show.

The Gators were scary close but the airboat was a blast and the scenery was really beautiful.

 After the boat tour we went to the Gator Boys show. Ruby was a little star struck when she saw Chris. She kept whispering "That's Chris, he's on he's on the show".

She and Jacob both got to hold a baby gator and Ruby even kissed it on the (taped) mouth. As soon as they handed it back to Chris, the gator urinated a ton and Christ said "Oh no- gatoraid!".  We all cracked up!

Then it was off to meet up with Grandma on the ship.