Spring Break

This year for spring break, Brian's parents were kind enough to fly us down to their place in the Tampa, Florida area.  It was Brian's first trip to see their new place.  It was so nice to escape the crazy winter!  

Our first stop off the plane was a very busy Italian market where Brian and his parents loaded up on fresh bakery goodies and homemade pasta.  Yum!  Brian was in bakery heaven and felt right at home.  I love this picture because Brian and his mom have made many happy memories in bakeries all over and I love watching the two of them in their element.  As a West Virginia girl with western parents I will always remember my first trip to their favorite place - The Cake Box in Queens - when we were first married.  I had never seen anything like it in my whole life, nor had I ever seen anyone spend so much money on bakery items.  It was awesome, and still is!  
Brian's Uncle Steven (his mom's only brother) drove all the way over from Boca Raton to spend the day.  It was so nice to see him!  It has been years since we last got together.  We helped him set up his cell phone and now Brian and Uncle Steven are texting buddies.  You can tell in this picture that the Hariton blood runs strong in Brian!
We looooove swimming in Mimi and Papa's clubhouse pool!  The kids also practiced their table tennis skills too.  
It was great to see Aunt Bubba a bunch this week too.  She lives in nearby (and beautiful!) St. Petersburg.  Now Haley and Debra are texting buddies too :)
You better believe the Kentucky game was on!    What a great way to start a week off.








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Science Center & Niagara Falls

Image
Brian took this picture of a bridge competition that was going on at the conference center.  That is a lot of bridge players! While Brian was conferencing, we ventured out in our car to the Science Center across town.  It was awesome!  We loved the interactive displays and things to do.  It was way, way fun. This frog is the cutest, saddest, frog I've ever seen.  He was so adorable. Haley loves turtles! We tried some Pizza Pizza for lunch in the cafeteria.  Not bad! This wooden slide was awesome in their little forest.  Grant went flying down it like a rocket.  Once he didn't get his footing right to stop and he kept on flying.  It was sooo funny.  He had a little bum rash from the slide, but was okay. What a good sister...picking out the mulch from Grant's shorts after he went flying off the slide.  hahaha. After finding so many good deals at the outdoorsy place the night before, I decided we ne...
Read more

Aquarium & CN Tower

Image
The next morning, we walked over to the Aquarium and beat the crowds.  It was a really cool aquarium - better than we expected.   Our favorite part was the tube that you could walk through.  This big sea creature was just sitting on the top of the tube.  It was so cool to check him out and to see all the sharks everywhere.  You really get a good look at all their crazy shark teeth when you are below them!   After lunch, we headed for an afternoon swim at the hotel pool. Then we headed over to St. Lawrence Market and met Brian for dinner.  I got fish and chips, Grant got homemade ravioli, Haley got chinese and Brian got perogies.  Everyone was happy!  It was fun to walk around the market. Next, we headed over the CN tower as a family.  It's a very high way up! The glass floor was super crazy to walk on.  It made me so nervous!  Man, that is a long way down! ...
Read more

Dearborn, Michigan

Image
On our way to another conference in Toronto, we stopped over outside of Detroit in Dearborn, Michigan - where the Ford headquarters are.  We stayed at the historic Dearborn Inn, which Henry Ford designed, and is now managed by Marriott, and went to the Henry Ford Museum.   There are tons of Ford factories, offices, test tracks and museums all over...but man, do they need to pave their roads!  They were full of potholes everywhere.  Poor Detroit/Dearborn.  Hopefully they can pave someday soon.   Brian and I had been to the museum before, but it has been over 20 years for me...and they had changed quite a bit.  It was fun to walk around and look at all of the neat cars, trains, airplanes and other equipment.    This is the original oscar myer hotdog mobile.   This is the actual bus - not a replica - of the bus in Montgomery Alabama where Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus.  Grant is sitting in her ...
Read more