We had been hearing about this cool place to go tubing called Ichetucknee Springs.....it's OK if you don't say it right...we don't either. The first thing you do is stop at a rental shack that's on the side of the road before you enter the state park. I had 1 goal in mind.....NOT to be cold. The others though, they just wanted to be IN the water not really caring that I kept telling them it was 68 degrees. These were the tubes the kids and Paul got.
This is how Callista felt when her bum first touched that 68 degree water.
This is Callista after a few minutes of settling in.
Finally a smile!
I was toasty warm in my boat...in fact I would have to purposefully dangle my feet in the water to cool off from the oppresive FL humidity,
This was the first of the awesome wildlife we got to see.
This was Chloe's reaction to the 2nd not so awesome wildlife we saw...a watersnake....she refused to stick her bum back into that water after we saw it. We saw 3 of them total.
This is the head of the Spring.....so crystal blue.. it was beautiful!
There is another part of the spring that is super deep about 40 feet. Paul was the only one brave enough to jump into it...he didn't stay in there long though.
It was a great way to spend off form our "Labors" and even though the water was cold, the kids said they'd do it again.
