Caleb's day got an early start as he got his first taste of Miami Hurricane Football. The Canes held their first practice today and it was open to season ticket holders. We arrived on Campus just before 7:30 A.M. as some of the players were taking the practice field to do some stretching. We watched practice for about an hour before we decided to call it a day. Though it was only 9:00 when we left it was already extremely hot and we all were feeling a little miserable.
Tonight we are in Ft. Myers, Florida. After practice, we went home cleaned up and packed the car for a last minute trip to Fort Myers. We are here to visit a church and meet with one of their ministers. Uncle Bob heard their preacher speak at the Spiritual Growth Workshop and was already interested in taking this field trip. Uncle Bob is part of a committee at church that is looking at different ways to improve our congregation and the are all going to visit different successful congregations in an effort to gain some insight into successful churches. So, Uncle Bob asked if we would make the trip with him and here we are at the Crowne Plaza in Ft. Myers.
Tonight after dinner, we headed out to Sanibel Island to get some beach time and watch the sunset. Sanibel is known as a wonderful shell beach and I found some nice shells that I brought 
home. Mom wanted Caleb to put his feet in the sand and the water. He seemed to enjoy being out there.Unfortunately, we did not get to stay out too long. After a few minutes out on the beach, I felt tiny little itchy bites on my legs. I looked down and discovered that we had stumbled upon a large swarm of sandflies or no-see-ums. These are nasty little critters that bite everywhere. We had heard about them when we moved to Florida, but we had never encountered them until tonight. We ended our beach stay and headed back to our hotel.
Everyone is ready to crash because even though we thought we were home and done traveling, we discovered there is always something to do or somewhere to go.
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