Over February vacation, my sister and I went to see our dad on his boat in Florida.  We got on the plane at Bangor International Airport a little after 6:30pm, then we had to go de ice, and there were 2 more planes ahead of us.  I was like oh my god this is bull**** I just want to be in Florida right now, then finally after we de iced, we took off.  Around 10:00pm we flew into Orlando, unfortunately it is a 5-hour drive to the boat.  By the time we got in the car, it was 11:00pm because it took a while to get off the plane then we had to go to the bathroom. 

When we finally got to the car, we drank a bunch of iced tea and my dad had like 5 Red Bulls because we couldn’t find a hotel so we had to drive all the way to the boat.  We spent a lot of time gettin off the selected route to fin hotels, so by the time we got to the boat it was past 5:00am.  We went around the house, got onto the boat, and then got everything inside, and then I crashed out on the bed.  I slept most of the day away because I was soo tired, unfortunately that was one of the nicest days we had down there. 

My sister woke me up and told me that my dad wanted to talk to me, so I got up and got dress and headed up the tuna tower.  I was still half asleep, my dad said, “here you steer” I was like holy crap im still half asleep, and now im steering this 52ft boat down theses narrow canals.  Then we had to turn around and it was quite a tricky situation, my dad used the engines to turn us completely around.  I was amazed at my dads piloting capabilities, but then again this boat is nothing compared to the ship with the barge that my dad pilots off the coast of Philly, which is hundreds of feet in total.  We took the boat to the marina that he used to have his boat in to say hi but I was so tired that I went back down into the salon and fell back asleep.

         While we were in Florida we did a lot of fun things, I think the best thing we did was went jet skiing, we went all over the place.  We got out in the harbor, a HUGE cruise ship was just leaving, it created an insane wake, and we went braap braaap braaapin through it.  It was a lot of fun, I can’t wait to go back, and hangout with my dad and just being relaxed and he’s not busy all the damn time.  I had an amazing time jet skiing with my dad, sister, and my dad’s friend Doug; I would definitely do it again.

          Another thing we did was go to theater of the sea and that was pretty cool.  We went on a bottomless boat ride and as we go down the canal dolphins come up in the middle of the boat and do tricks and stuff.  The woman steered the boat with an outboard motor, and she did it with her foot.  There were a lot of cool things the animals did a bunch of amazing tricks that were pretty solid, my sis had a pretty good time.  Although she got grumpy cause my dad would buy her food and she said, “oh so you’ll let your own daughter starve to death” haha. 

Every summer my dad and his crew go down to his boat and they go off shore fishing and catch all kinds of fish I hopefully ill be able to go with him and his crew.  I really wanted to last year but it just never happened, I don’t really know why but it just didn’t.  Last year when we went down I met his chief engineer “Jeff” and he was pretty cool and I wanted to meet the rest of the crew and see Jeff again so hopefully ill be able to go down this summer.

           I wish I could go live with him down on the boat in Florida but he’s gone for 6 months out of the year, it would be fun because everything we did in that one week we could do all the time!!  I miss Florida especially when we have this crappy weather up here in Maine. 

           I had the best vacation in Florida with my dad we did so many fun things that I cant wait to do again next February vacation.