We flew into Tampa and rented a car to drive to Sarasota where Kim’s Grandma Keane (her real name is Corinne Lavorgna) lives with her boyfriend Bob. Kim’s grandma lives in a manufactured home community for older people. Since we got to Florida at 6 in the morning traffic wasn’t bad. The car rental would have only been $20, but we aren’t 25 so it was $45. Lame.
Kim’s grandma worked the day we got there which worked out well because we just passed out in the sun by the pool and slept while the old ladies did water aerobics. Kim’s grandma came home and made us her famous lasagna (like Lavorgna, ha ha). It was vegetarian spinach lasagna, and Bob would have none of that so he at spaghetti and sauce with meatballs. After dinner we went to swim in the pool and sit in the hot tub.
The next day we went to Kim’s grandma’s favorite beach, Siesta Keys. It was really nice with white, fine sand. Then we went to the pier and there were dolphins jumping around in the water! 
Pelicans were flying everywhere and old men were fishing. I think the birds in Florida were one of the coolest parts of the trip. There’s so many birds everywhere! Grandma Keane took us to lunch on the water at Sharky’s and I had calamari.
Kim’s grandma wanted to take a picture of her and Bob in the hot tub and send it out as a Christmas card, so we pulled a palm tree behind the hot tub, put some ornaments, and took the picture at night. We developed the pictures at Walgreens the next morning.
Kim’s parents showed up that afternoon. They had driven down from near Daytona Beach. Everyone talked for a while and then Kim’s parents, Kim and I went to a time share condo on the beach near Tampa.