Orlando Florida-Daytona Beach

Josh had a conference in Orlando Florida last week and wanted me to come along a few days before the conference started. I of course was only too happy to acquiesce to this request. We hired my little sister to come and watch our kids (thank Heather!) and headed out to sunny Florida!
We didn't really have anything planned for the first day(those days always end up being my favorite), so we decided to head to Daytona Beach. It was about an hour away and it was fun just to be together and talk. The drive there was beautiful. We saw some trees covered in moss and it was so pretty and different than anything I had ever seen before. I love new experiences, I collect them.

Once we got to Daytona the street that we were driving on had the above sign on it. Wow, isn't that like a famous race or something :)
The stadium for that thing was enormous. Bigger than any stadium I have ever seen before. They had tours, which we would have liked to go on, but we decided instead to head to the beach.
There is something so perfect about an ocean beach. We came on a good night. The day was overcast, but still hot and muggy and there weren't many beach goers left. It was sort of perfect.
The waves were enormous and we just sat with our mouths open as a few of them rushed us on the beach drenching my pants (I always freeze on airplanes so I was still in long pants.)
Someone's footprints were still perfectly in the sand and it reminded me of the famous poem. It was so quiet and peaceful and perfect.
Josh had to take a million calls while we were there as he has some big things going on at work, so I sort of took this romantic walk on the beach alone (just kidding Josh :) I loved wading in the water (apparently I have worn flip flops a few times this summer :)
There was a man and his son under the pier with a fishing net throwing it and pulling it back in. His little boy was having a great time diving in and swimming around with him. He ended up pulling this cool looking fish in for dinner. I had never seen anything like it (he must of thought I was such a nut to want to take a picture of his dinner :)

What Josh looked like our entire walk on the beach...I kept taking pictures of him to tease him about being on the phone.
There was a little fair on the boardwalk.
The waves were so big that we got to watch quite a few surfers. I think surfing is so cool (watching a surfing competition is on my bucket list). They were so good and it was fun to watch.





Josh had wanted to go to Bubba Gump for dinner (it was right by our hotel), but we wanted to go to the beach first so you can imagine our delight and surprise when we found one on the boardwalk. Neither of us had been here before and we both love shrimp so it was awesome. When you don't need your waiter you leave your little license plate like this...
But when you need something you flip it to this (now you know :)
It was such a great night and a fun start to our Florida weekend.