Chasing Carter...: Florida

For the past 2 years, Kyle and I have taken a trip to Fort Myers, Florida to watch the MN Twins Spring Training. We have always gone with our good friends, Andy & Summer Minnich, and last year we had 3-month-old Carter with us as well. With Andy & Summer expecting their first baby in just over 4 weeks, they were not able to join us this year, so we decided to make it a quick 5-day trip without Carter.

My parents and Kyle's parents are always so willing to help us out with Carter, and this was no exception -- THANK YOU Mom, Dad, Dave & Dorothy for watching Carter while we had this nice little getaway!! You're the best :)

Instead of flying directly into Fort Myers on Wednesday, we made a stop in Miami so Kyle could visit with one of his clients. From there, we had a 2 1/2 hour drive across the state, which really was not as bad as we anticipated. It reminded us of the drive to St. Cloud -- a lot of nothing to look at :) We arrived around dinner-time, settled into our condo with an incredible view of the ocean (thank you Wieden family for letting us stay there!!!), and headed to a nice dinner on the water.

After sleeping-in each morning (until 7:30am -- it was great!!), we'd do the 2-mile walk to a little breakfast spot called Pat & Deb's -- it was delicious but it was definitely good that we had the 2-mile walk on the beach after breakfast to burn off all that food.

We were able to do a lot of our favorite things while there: sleep-in, relax on the beach, nap by the pool, have our own happy hours in the condo, watch the sunset, catch a Twins game, mini golf, incredible dinners out (lots of fresh seafood), and mostly just spending some wonderful one-on-one time with each other.

We missed Carter and talked about him a lot, but we were so happy to have had the opportunity to get away for a while. Enjoy the pictures...!