Heading north past the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse to Daytona Beach where we will be hosting the grandkids for their Spring Break.
We'll be staying at Halifax Harbor Marina in Daytona and pickup a rental car to travel around with the kids. That will be useful also as Rivah has another vet appointment for her anal gland issue. Not getting worse but, not getting better either.
Well, the kids didn't make it on Monday as their flight was cancelled but, now scheduled to arrive tomorrow.
That gave us a free day with the rental car to drive to New Smyrna and spend another day with Tara and Carol for more beer and tacos.
Success! They're here finally, just a half day later. Now off for Daytona activities.
First stop is the beach. Its not hot Florida weather but at least it's short sleeves, especially in the sun.
Its a tight fit for 5 on the boat but there's room for everybody.
Game time. Looks like the boys are sleeping through the instruction phase.
If you're in Daytona, you might as well tour the most famous site in town, the Daytona 500 Speedway.
The tour was fairly interesting with views of the stands, the track, the pits and winners lane.
Here's the whole team in Victory Lane.
After the track tour, our plan was to head to Cape Canaveral to tour the space center and watch a launch that evening. However, we learned its $85 per person to get on the facility which only makes sense if you allocate an entire day to see all the sights, so we opted to head for the beach.
Meanwhile, the launch was scrubbed, the second time the kids have missed a launch, so we had a nice seafood dinner and then headed back to the boat.
Next on the agenda was kayaking at Blue Springs park where the manatees come to lounge in the warmer spring fed waters off the St Johns River. There are several hundred manatees here and several big alligators that we saw.
In the afternoon it was off to the go-kart track for some racing.
The karts actually go pretty fast, up to 30mph which is fast when you are sitting a few inches off the asphalt and running through the hairpin turns.
It takes a while to figure out how fast you can power through the turns sliding slightly but not spinning out. I see how young racers learn how to drive starting with these little go-karts.
After racing, it was off to Putt-Putt golf, then on to Tara and Carols for dinner. A pretty busy day.
All too soon it was time to head back to the airport. We packed a week of activities into basically a 3-day visit but everyone had a great time.
Fortunately there return flight went as scheduled with no delays.
Back to just the two of us. Coffee and bagels for breakfast in Daytona.
