Our oldest grandson, Brady, flew down to go with Larry to the Citrus bowl on New Year's Day. From the shirts you can tell who was playing. Larry had gotten excellent seats right behind the team, sadly Kentucky beat Penn State 27 to 24.
Jan 2 we drove up to Gainsville to Paynes Prairie State Park to see alligators, but the part we wanted to go to was closed because of flooding. they directed us to Sweetwater Wetlands.
We walked around the trails. The weather has been unusually warm so it was great to be outside.
Look behind you Brady there is an alligator.
We did see about 10 alligators. I am sure there were more but they were well camouflaged.
Brady had good eyes for spotting them.
There were LOTS of birds, of all kinds.
On Thursday we went to the Little White House in Clermont. It has a great miniature White House replica. We watched a video on how they have to flip the decor in all the rooms in a few hours on inauguration day. This replica was used in the video.
President Brady Mathias!??
A day on the job.
We left the White House and went to Historic Downtown Clermont. Unfortunately the houses are not open until Friday afternoon. Larry sitting on the porch of the Townsend House built in 1895.
The Kern house built in 1883.
Brady did get to go into this Army hut used in World War II to train soldiers to use spotlights looking for aircraft. It is full of interesting items, thanks to the woman who let him have a peek.
We really enjoyed having Brady visit. It was nice having so much of the family here to visit during the holidays.
