My birthday date-Orlando-Lake Worth Chalk Art Festival

Sterling worked nonstop from the end of December until well into February, so by mid-Feb the weeks felt LONG and HARD. Luckily for us--he had a random week off! We get to put in what we'd like to have off, but then it's all just a puzzle that gets put together on whether you get your first choices or not. In order to have Christmas off with the kids--by default we had a week off in February (I wanted Spring Break, but man this ended up being so perfect! I couldn't even be sad about it!). Starting on my birthday, Sterling was free! So we headed to this little cafe literally ON THE OCEAN and ate some of the best food of my life. It was amazing. Everyone who visits from now on needs to go to Dune Deck Cafe with us! 

We ate right under that white and blue striped canopy.

Then we found this market that we had not known about before-Rorabeck's-because our neighbor had recommended it recently. IT IS AMAZING! Produce is SO EXPENSIVE down here and SO UNAVAILABLE! Not even the more expensive supermarkets (Publix) have great produce. This produce is amazing and incredibly cheap. It was like finding a little gold mine! Plus, the mangoes were on and DELICIOUS. So many mangoes. They make my tongue numb but it is SOOOOO worth it.

Angel food cake.

 During his one week off I had planned one night away in Orlando, and paid to swim in their incredible water park the next day. We were so excited. Unfortunately, the weather went from 85 degrees to 65 degrees in Delray, and when we got to Orlando it was raining and 50 degrees. They didn't even open the water park. So basically we drove to stay at a hotel that we had to check out of by 10am. That being said, it was still a MIGHTY fine time. The kids were ecstatic. It was just a little hard not being able to have what we had planned. BUT next time!

 The following Saturday there was a street chalk art festival in Lake Worth (about twenty minutes north of us---where Sterling's hospital is). It was so much more fun than even I anticipated. They had jugglers wandering around and SO MUCH GOOD FOOD (I'm assuming. We actually didn't get anything but the smells were amazing and we know creole food trucks...it was delicious I'm sure.) and so many good smells and the singer was FANTASTIC. The kids had the time of their life just dancing in the field and Sterling and I couldn't get over her talent.

The clouds were for real like that. It was one of those crazy wild Florida days where it's raining in broad sunshine. Always the weirdest.

There was a little sign at the bottom telling you to lay down and take a picture (most said stay off) and the kids were all over that!

Rainbow!