Florida Rocks!!!!!!!

I went to Florida for one of four of our vacations this summer. It was very exciting!!!!!

We went crab hunting on two nights of our vacation. This is the bucket of crabs that we found the second time we went. You have to do it at night because the sand crabs only come out at night. The first time we went, the first crab we found was huge for a sand crab!

This is a picture of Callie, (My best friend) and Miles, my little brother. They are on " Shell Island." No wonder it is called Shell Island! The shells are huge there!!!!! They look like shells that would be in a book!! They look so cool, because their color and their size look so fake.

This is a picture of me and Callie. We are sitting on a chair in the beach house that we rented. The beach house was beautiful!!!!! Me and Callie slept in the same room and shared the same bed!!!!

This is a picture of Callie on the beach at Shell Island. I guess she just found another shell!

This is a picture of me at the beach. (Not on Shell Island. I wore my swimsuit there.) We took this picture on family picture day.

WHEN YOU GO TO FLORIDA, GO TO SHELL ISLAND!!!!! IT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alaska!

This is me with my cousins in front of an old rainforest tree. Our guide said that

black bears use that tree for shelter sometimes. We also saw a black bear in the temperate rainforest, too. It was walking around by a stream in the rainforest.

This is where me, my dad and Parker went panning for gold in Juneau. I found a lot of gold! Probably about 1/4 of an ounce. It was fun, but the water in the rapids was freezing and crazy! But I was gold panning in the calmest part of the river. It was freezing, too. The sand seemed like it was magical because our guide gave us some sand that he found when we first started. When it ran out, he wouldn't tell us where he found because once we found the spot, all the gold would be gone.

This is one of the dogs at the Musher Camp in Skagway. I forgot this dog's name, though.

This is me holding one of the puppies. His name is Murphy. He is very soft and cuddly! He only weighs about 4 lbs.

These are some of the puppies sleeping together. The people didn't tell us what their names are, though.

Here I am with my dad. He is holding Maverick. The kids didn't get to hold him because he is a very wild little puppy! :)

This is me with a very nice sled dog named Chief. He was one of the nicest ones that I met.

This is Mouse. She is a very nice sled dog that enters the Iditarod every year. She is also very sensitive. She thinks that she is the best lead dog, but Chief is better than her. He is the best!

This is me, Parker, Miles, Ethan and Emma. We are looking at our stuffed animals in the window. We put them there so we could see our room on the outside of the ship.

This is me, Parker, Jack and Annie dancing at a place on the cruise ship called Club Fusion. We danced there almost every night. One night, there was a live 80's rock n' roll band playing for us.

This is me in a wildlife preserve. I am standing front of a cage with 2 Grizzly bears and a coyote.

This is a picture of me swinging at a park in Canada!

ALASKA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!