Karen has been away in Colorado Springs since Tuesday. Whilst she has been away we have been in a bit of a routine of school work and some leisure activities. Home schooling Jack and Emily is a lot easier in the motor home than it was in tents and hotel rooms but it is difficult to get into the discipline of steady hours especially when the weather is so good and the sea is only feet from your door. Still we manage to get a good few hours in every day. When we do have breaks Jack and Emily mostly want to go and play in the rock pools beside the campsite where they find star fish, jelly fish and horseshoe crabs. One afternoon we took a drive out to Big Pine Key, across the 7 mile bridge where we stop in a pet store with the most amazing collection of exotic birds. We got to play with them allowing them to climb up on to our shoulders. Another afternoon this week, whilst we were taking a short break a manatee was spotted in the marina next to the campsite. It was a beautiful creature – and what it was after was 
some fresh water, which it found in the form of one of the boat owners cleaning his craft. We were amazed as this large animal rolled over on to its back to allow the man to spray water directly into it’s mouth.Today we trekked back up to Fort Lauderdale. We have spent so much time there in recent weeks – to the point where we know our way around. The reason for the journey was to pick Karen up from the airport. After collecting her we took drove to Dania where we stopped once again at Jaxsons for an ice cream
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