Florida Friends

Growing up in Florida, Sam's family always were blessed to go to the beach for weeks during the summer. I've heard story after story about THE REEDS, a family that they met at the beach and eventually became lifelong friends with.  Every year they met up with The Reeds and hung out and played their whole vacation.  To this day we usually catch up with at least Mr & Mrs Reed during our family reunion in New Smryna Beach.  We love going to the beach and love catching up year after year with our friends out there.  A couple of years ago the kids became friends with the kids in this cute family from Canada. Every year we meet up with them.  They're super fun and we love seeing them year after year. 

I also love seeing my Zumba peeps in Florida.  I'm able to transfer my Y membership to Edgewater and go to classes there.  It's fun to see people year after year.  I've known Yana for a couple of years, she's an amazing Zumba instructor but her passion is bellydance, and she has natural talent for it.
 I met Vanessa two years ago in Yana's class.  I noticed how well she moved and actually said to her that she should teach.  This year she has her own classes at the Y and shes also amazing.  It's so nice to get to know people from other parts of the world and to build friendships and share memories :)

We love playing in the Ocean - all pix

On da floor

This is the eight of us before our venture out on the town. We had originally planned on going into Orlando to hit some dancing but after a day lounging around on the beach decided to drive to Daytona, only 30 mins away. Good plan!!! Tiffany suggested her old stompin' ground which unbeknowns to us had changed drastically over the years....hee hee! We should have known by the "attire" of some of the guest entering that it probably wasn't what we were looking for but after getting ready and driving the half hour we decided what the heck, it'll be fun!
Ummmm, we were litterally the only white people in the place...well joey and I count as half white, especially after they saw our moves...hahaha
We stuck out like nothing else but that wasn't gonna stop us, heck no, our $10 cover was just as good as anyone elses' so off we went and TOOK OVER DA FLOOR, even Sam and Kevin busted a move. It was really fun, even when they gave a shoutout to their - and I quote - "white peeps" ok like that would ever be ok anywhere else....whatever, we danced our feet off and finally bid our goldtooth friends adieu at 2 in the morning.
A quick stop at Dennys back at the beach for breakfast and desert, and Kevins memorable 8 scrambled eggs, plate of pancackes PLUS quesadillas. Did I mention is was 2 a.m.? The guy is a garbage disposal.
Two nights later Tiffany and I decided to check out a brand new Latin dance club that I had heard about when Sam and I went dancing (well I went dancing, Sam was my personal bodyguard..lol) to the Rockin Ranch in Ormond Beach. It was the 2nd opening weekend of THE MIX in Daytona and we had a BLAST!!!!! Some of the people I had met the previous night were there so we hit the floor right out of the gate. It was super fun and pretty awesome salseros to dance with. As the night wore on we sorta hooked up with a multi-cultural group of students from Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil and Egypt. That's one thing I love about Florida, it's so diverse.

Florida Highlights - Take 1 - Cousins

Beach Bums

Collecting sea shells....

Amazing sand-art....these guys were hours shaping

this classic truck right beside us!