Everglades Airboat Tour

I'm trying to catch up as fast as I can. I def have been slacking for the past month. So let me tell you about this FUN adventure. When we first got here, I was searching to see what kind of things we could do as a family for fun. The Airboat tours came up everywhere. Their is a couple different ones, some let you have your child on the boat, some don't. As I was looking my friend Valentine said that she saw a ticket on Groupon for $20 for 2 people(usually it is $22 a person) I totally jumped on this and invited some of the other families in the office. We all went down Tuesday morning before our husbands had to go work-it was a lot of fun. It was super hot, so I just wanted the boat to keep going and not stop. The boat ride was 30 min long, and believe it or not we only got to see 1 gator. Our instructor told us that it was a bad time to search for them, because it was a time when the females go and lay their  eggs and they are very vicious. Once we spotted one, our guide turned the boat so we kind of closed the gator in. It was scary because the boat is seriously super low to the water and you are sitting low in the boat. I was sitting on the edge before the boat left, and I made Mike switch me places. So as we approached this gator she started coming towards the boat on our side, seriously no more that 2ft away and just stared. I swear that thing could've leaped at us any moment. After the tour we got to see an exhibit their that had pigs, gators, crocs, skunks, rabbits, bobcats, and other animals. We also got to hold a baby gator! That was probably the highlight of this day. I was nervous to hold it though to be honest-even the mouth was taped shut-you just never know with these creatures. It was so neat though! I didn't know they felt the way they did.  Jaxx got a kick out of it, and that's all that mattered.. Here are some pics we took that day