PAS#4 Spring Break

This will have been my first blog post in a while, partly due to Spring break.  Spring break will be the subject of this post since it encompassed the last ten days for me.

As any college student I look forward to my breaks, especially spring break, because it offers a chance to get out of the cold wet north and head south, where I am from, for some better weather.  This year I headed way south all the way to West Palm Beach in Florida.  My good friend and I drove from my home in North Carolina, to West Palm to meet up with some family that has a house on the beach there. 

Before we had even arrived I was aware of the beautiful weather.  I had left a cold PA earlier that same morning which was a cool 40 degrees.  In Florida it was a sunny 80 degrees.  It was defiantly worth the drive for the weather.

Once we arrived we immediacy set out to go fishing on Lake Worth, we waded which is super fun in nice water.  That night we caught some pretty good sized snook.  Of course our real play was going fishing out in the ocean for sailfish, which can be caught year round right off the coast of west palm.  The reason is the Gulf Stream is the closest to the shore in west palm compared in anywhere else’s in the US.

The next day we went with my grandpa to his boat to go out into the ocean.  We could tell from the house that the water was really rough because the wind had picked up, but we decided to go out anyway.  As we cruised thought the intercostal water way we say there was a wind warning and 10-15 foot swells in the ocean.  Those are some pretty big waves even in a good size boat.  We went out and had some fun riding the waves but did not do any fishing because of the weather.  Unfortunately, the wind only got worse through the week so we had to find other things to do.

The next day my grandpa in an attempt to makeup for the bad weather took us around to all the exotic car sales places.  We went to three different one all of them where kinda disguised and all the cars where inside.  The first one we went to probably had 20 Ferraris and a mix of Lamborghinis, porches, and Mercedes.  There where a few cars that where one-million plus which was mind blowing.  The other places we went had a mix of cars but they were more focused on high-end luxury like Bentleys and Rolls Royce still really neat. 

The rest of break we hung out at the beach explored an island and even braved the stormy ocean again before heading home.  Expect we did not drive straight to NC we had to make a stop at the University of Florida.  

My twin sister is on the gymnastics team for UNC Chapel Hill and they were having a meet in Florida Friday night.  If you don’t know anything about gymnastics all you need to know is Florida is 3X’s in a row national Champions. It was a really cool meet to go to because not only in Florida really good but it was there last home meet of the season so the gym was packed. 

After the meet I hung out with my sister who has a different spring break than me so I would not have been able to see her any other way.  It was strange to meet my sister in Florida so far from home.  The rest of my spring break involved driving and flying back to Pennsylvania where we return to cold damp sunless weather.  Hopefully spring will show up soon.