Fort Lauderdale Boat Show

We did one of the funnest things yet in Fort Lauderdale. Downtown has canals running all through it so every year they decorate boats and put on a Christmas parade. We really lucked out this year because instead of having to search for a spot and watch it with hundreds of people we had front row seats, lots of food, friends, and plenty of space. My friend, Melanie is renting a house right on the canal so she invited Mark and me to watch it from her backyard. She and her husband got invited to two different parties (which meant we did too) that had tons of food. One was the owner's that she is renting from and the other was the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale's party, who lives next door to her. It was so much fun! We ate cookies, food, drank hot chocolate and egg nog and hung out.

A Favorite Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving turned out to be one of our favorites. It was so nice to spend time with Mark and just hang out all day. We had planned on having Thanksgiving with a group of friends but things changed when the hosting family got sick and canceled the night before. So we decided to go to the beach in the morning and then come back and have our own dinner. We were so excited!
We spent about 4 hours at a beach called Red Reef Park that had great snorkeling. It was the most perfect day with water about 78 degrees. Mark mostly did the snorkeling while I laid in the sun. I was afraid of getting stung by the many jellyfish.
We saw tons of these little ones washed up on the shore.





Here is a picture of our Thanksgiving dinner. We chose to do a little chicken since there was no way of eating a whole turkey with just Mark and I. We were so proud of ourselves, we made the whole thing including a banana cream pie in only 2 hours.


I had to post this next picture since I thought it was hilarious. I got up to get something that we forgot in the kitchen and the view I had of Mark when I was coming back in was so funny. We had this huge table of food with only Mark sitting at it wearing a napkin tucked into his shirt. I should never underestimate how much Mark can eat. Besides one square, he ate the whole pan of Jello just so we wouldn't have to put it away in our fridge. That's what I call taking it for the team! After the dinner we finished the night watching Christmas movies. It was so much fun!!