Weekend on Little Gasparilla Island

Ahhhh! After this past week at work, this weekend getaway Matt & I just enjoyed was exactly what the doctor ordered. We joined some friends at a beach house on Little Gasparilla Island, Florida, for a long weekend of fun and sun.

It was fantastic! Matt and I spent some quality time playing in the water. I don't think I could possibly have enjoyed body surfing waves more as a kid than I did with Matt. Check out these photos of my darling husband riding the waves!




I had a blast playing in the water, and it was enormously entertaining to watch my husband find his inner child while splashing about. We both emerged from the ocean salty, slightly sunburned, and renewed.

While on this getaway, we also managed to squeeze in a little fishing...Ok, so it was mostly our companions that fished (as in, at ALL hours of the day!), but Matt & I both gave it a try. To my great surprise and after quite a few false alarms (fish seemed to be able to eat my bait without my being aware), I managed to snag a fish!


And, of course, Matt has stories about his "one that got away...."



This weekend was simply fantastic. I felt like I really had the opportunity to get to know some of Matt's friends a little better. He and I managed to sneak off alone a couple of times and find little romantic moments in which to indulge. Oh, and another thing that was wonderful about this weekend is that I saw sooooo many dolphins!

Perhaps most native Floridians are rather used to seeing dolphins out and about, but this Tennessee native has only seen them in aquariums. I was so enthralled by seeing them that I didn't manage to get any good photos. They swim pretty quickly. The fact that they practically swam up to the boat (not quite, but very close to it), was incredibly thrilling. We must have seen nearly twenty dolphins this weekend! Perhaps next time, we can catch some fish to feed to them....

Matt and I had such a great time, we are considering going back next weekend. Our efforts to play hard have us pretty worn out tonight, but I think the fact that we took a break from working on the house this weekend and simply had fun will leave us refreshed and ready to take on anything we encounter this week. You never know, maybe next weekend we'll end up playing at the beach again!