Friday, May 25, 2012

Hillsborough River State Park and Geocache Treasures

Happy to spend Matt's 39th bday with Marjy and Bob in their house in Riverview, Florida.  Marjy went all out with pool toys for the kids and Bob bought brand new motor boats that were a huge hit.  We all had a great afternoon celebrating! 

Our state park was fantastic with these moss trees that intermingled with the palm trees.  This particular state park hosts a Haunted forest on Halloween and I can see why it's such a huge hit.  At night, these woods would be SPOOKY!  We explored on our bikes several trails and even went geocaching for the first time with Aunt Marjy.  The kids had a blast treasure hunting with GPS.  There were three hidden boxes in this park alone. 

The rockers was a HUGE hit!

Matt took Alex (his only taker) on a kayak ride down the Hillsborough river.  It is full of aligators, but they didn't see any.  Matt was disappointed....I was not.

After hiking to find the geocache stache. 

Gorgeous river view.

Just too much fun for little miss

Suspension bridge over the river. 
We have hit over 12 different pools and 4 beaches in our adventures.  I think the kids have fins growing on them.  This was the enormous pool at the state park.  Tanner thought he spotted a "poo" in the water as we arrived and he was snorkling.  The rangers came and were prepared to shut down the pool (on a very busy Sunday afternoon), but to everyone's relief, it was just a huge leaf.  Tanner was so sure that everyone else was wrong that he left the pool for an hour, sulking.  You'd have thought he'd be happy, but I think embarrassed was the word.  Hard to get a lot of attention for something that didn't exist. 

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