I walked this morning, we switched vehicles with Jim as he wanted to borrow our truck to pick up some supplies from Lowe's. We took off for Fort Myers Beach in his car. Today we crossed off another item on my bucket list - parasailing over the beach. The weather was perfect and our friends, Mike and Claire walked from their condo to where we were boarding the boat and took several pics.
Mick and Chase were our drivers/instructors......we got our life jackets and harnesses on, in position for take off and as the parachute was billowing in the breeze, we were lifted up, up and away. It was about a 10-12 minute ride. Totally awesome. They had asked us if we wanted to dip our toes towards the end! "Yes"! And so as we were coming lower and ready to dip, a coast guard plane was flying over and the turbulence affected the parachute and whoa....we were dunked instead of dipped! A wall of water came over us. only lasted seconds, but yikes! Chase was very apologetic when we got back into the boat as that was not part of the plan, but he said the plane was the culprit, but who knows! Oh well...a good day to get soaked and fun experience!
Back to Mike and Claire's condo to change out of our wet, sandy, salty clothes. We had delicious lunch at Junkanoo and fun visit. We took them home and we stopped back at Times Square for a little shopping and on home after picking up some dessert treats at Publix for party tonight here at the park.
Mark, Pat, Mike, Claire
Here are some highlights of our adventure today...
Waving to Claire and Mike and walking to the shuttle
Shuttle delivering us to our boat - too shallow for boat to come in closer
Smiley face is billowing out
And we're off....
Up up and away
AWESOME!
A coast guard plane flying overhead
Oops - the dunk instead of the dip
Back in the boat - wet, salty and happy!
Fun Halloween party here at Cypress Trail tonight! Good food, music, friends! Costumes were optional, but there were some very clever outfits and many who did not dress up
(like us)!
And now, here are our favorite trick or treaters.....
Blair as Tinker Bell
Maeve and Luke with their friends, Taylor, Maddie and Jack
Philip (pirate), Luke (power ranger), Annette (witch) Maeve (princess)
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