Sunset off Anna Marie Island

On Saturday afternoon, I headed down to Anna Maria Island, http://www.annamariaislandchamber.org/, for a cookout with Bill, Joan, Beth, Darcy, Alan, Kessler, and Tyler. Bill and Lisa, Joan's neighbors, also came down.

After dinner, Alan took us out on his boat for a sunset cruise.

Rainbow Springs State Park

On Saturday morning, Bill and I jumped in the magic bus and made our way northward towards the Rainbow Springs State Park, http://www.floridastateparks.org/rainbowsprings/, where we met up with Erin, Lee, and Al, where they had a campground set up for the weekend.

At the state park, they even had tubing down the river. We ended up taking the two hour trip where we had a relaxing time floating down the river, and even saw a few otters along the banks.

That night, Bill, Al, and I took a ride to get some food at the store, and saw a beautiful sunset going down over the hills.

On Sunday, we packed up, checked out of the campground, and headed over to the state park, http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/rainbowsprings.html, where we took a nature walk admiring the waterfalls, and even came across a turtle crossing the bridge and back into the stream.