Day Two......Tuesday

The kids woke up early....apparently the time change made no difference to them because they seemed to start stirring as soon as they saw the clock hit 7, even though it was an hour earlier in MN.  In fact, they did that every morning.

On the agenda for today - hit the beach.  We had read about Caspersen Beach which is the southernmost beach in Venice, FL.  Here, they say, you can find a collection of great shells, along with shark teeth.  So we headed off with high hopes.  It's not quite as easy as they say....but we did find a few.  The shells were also quite large and very unique looking. 

When we first started out from the hotel....it was a little cloudy and felt comfortable (temperature wise)...when got to the beach, it was hot!  I was wishing that I had thrown in John's and my swimsuit, but was thankful that I had the kids' along.  Oh well, whatever we got wet would dry out eventually. 

Katie and her shells.

Will's favorite shell-find.

The beach here was pretty rough - lots of rocks, and the sand was quite dark and black in spots.  They say this is from the erosion of the rocks, shells and teeth that collect there from the Gulf currents.

Caspersen Beach



We left the beach and drove into Venice to find a place to eat lunch.  It quickly became apparent that this little town was FULL of retirees that had nowhere to be at 1:30 pm on a Tuesday because traffic was HORRIBLE and there wasn't a parking place to be found.  Finally we found a place on the outskirts of downtown called Pineapples Island Grill where we had a nice lunch outside before we headed back to Sarasota.