Our weekend with 40 other full-time RVing families!

While looking into the feasibility of living full-time in an RV, I found a group called Fulltime Families. It's specifically for people who live in their RV while roadschooling their children, perfect! There's this whole "rally" thing that RVers talk about and we were curious to try it, so when we heard the Fulltime Families Rally was in Florida when we would be there, we decided to see what it's all about. I have been on the site for a year and a half and have learned so much from the members, so meeting some of them face to face was a fun concept for us.

It officially ran from Thursday thru Sunday at a place called Lazydays RV Resort, which is across the street from the Lazydays Sales and Service center, which happens to be the largest RV sales location in the world! To say it's a big place is an understatement. The campground quickly filled with families there for the rally. It turns out they placed us all together in the back side of the park which was super convenient once we all met each other.

I didn't take many photos, it's just kind of overwhelming when there's 130-some people all together (and I don't like taking photos of people without their permission). We attended activities that included potluck dinners, movie nights, campfires, crafts and pool time! One of the moms let us try out her kids' swim vests and it allowed Asher and Journey to play without holding on to one of us the whole time. Asher was especially excited about his new freedom and ability. We ended up getting our own the next day. They picked out these whale and dolphin ones.

Tye-dying shirts

Making dolphin necklaces to prepare for our trip to meet Winter.

One of my favorite parts of the rally was the Parade of Homes. Members of the group opened up their RVs so we can see what their homes look like. About 20 homes were on the tour this year. There were a broad range of types, new to older, factory to custom improvements, lots of kids and pets. One family even travels with three dogs and three cats onboard, and you would never know it, actually I didn't know until she told me later. {I was kind of jealous of all the cat owners.}

Here Asher & Journey are meeting one family's cat...

He surprised us all, even his parents, when he climbed up on my kids for a cuddle.

Pretty sure he would have napped on Asher's lap if we didn't have to leave.

Long morning walks with the moms, allowed me to get to know 

some great women. My kids liked to waive to us as we passed by.

One hundred and thirteen of us took a field trip to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to meet Winter and Hope the stars of the Dolphin Tale movies, the true story of Winter's rescue and process of building her a prosthetic tail. She's had quite a few tails thru the years as she's grown larger and the materials have improved. Here's the kids holding one of her old tails.

...and here's Winter floating in the pool.

touching stingrays

We even watched an endoscope performed on a turtle that had swallowed a hook, which then caused scar tissue to form. When the scar tissue grew so large that it was blocking his airway, they performed surgery to remove it, so while we were there, they were checking his healing progress.

Here's Asher and Journey's favorite friend from the rally, Princess, well that's not her real name of course. She looked like a princess when they met, and even now that they know her name is Makenna, they still say things like, "Will Princess be there?"

We ended up finding many friends at the rally and I'm really happy that we went. 

Hoping to cross paths with many of them down the road.