Relaxation Day Three!

On Wednesday, we decided to have a relax by the pool day. The pool at our condo was really cool. It had a huge pirate ship with a slide through it and a beach entrance for the little ones. We had a ball doing pretty much nothing! Later that evening we headed back to Downtown Disney, but this time we ate at a grown up restaurant. The food was super yummy, and no dinosaurs in sight. After dinner we took the boys to find a souvineer with some money my grandparents had given them in Destin. Then took in all the Downtown Disney sites! Overall we had a fantastic relaxing day! Day 3....my kind of day!

Magic Kingdom-Disney Day Two

Tuesday was Magic Kingdom day! We got there right when they opened, Mickey and the gang were doing a big countdown with streamers, fireworks, bubbles, the whole shebang! We had our plan so we headed straight for Dumbo! The crowds were again WAY down and we never had to wait in line. We took turns riding Splash Mountain, and Day made Cory do it against his will. If you look closely at the picture, you'll see Cory is the one ducking his head behind Day. We got everything done, just like we planned and headed back for lunch and naps around 1. Unfortunately, around 4 when we were heading back, there was some rain moving in...so right about the time we walked through the gates, the sky fell out. It rained, and rained and rained for almost an hour, while we sat on the floor of a hot dog place and ate dinner. After that, we decided that we could either get soaked walking back to the car or get wet walking to some rides. So off we went to weather the storm;) It was actually pretty fun playing in the rain. We made the best of it and had a blast! They ended up canceling the parade but the fireworks were still on. They were fantastic! Day 2...success!!

Animal Kingdom...Disney Day One!

Our first day in Orlando was spent at Animal Kingdom. We had our "Touring Plan" and we were ready to go! Thankfully, my plan to come after the school year started seemed to pay off. The crowds were very small and we never waited in line more than maybe 5 minutes. We saw some cool animals and saw some cool shows. The kids did really well, and after a long afternoon we headed to Downtown Disney for dinner at T-Rex. It's owned by the same people as Rainforest Cafe, but with a Dinosaur theme. We sat in the Ice Age section, which I'm pretty sure that wanted to be as realistic as possible by making it negative 12 degrees. It was LOUD and VERY OVER STIMULATING, which means the kids LOVED it! The boys ended the day with a bubble bath in our jacuzzi tub. They had a ball and went right to sleep! So...Day 1...success! Here is a slide show to give you a play by play of our day.

More from Destin

Here are the shots from are very rushed photo shoot on the beach. We made the mistake of waiting until the morning we were planning to leave to try and get these pictures taken. We thought we had until noon to check out of the condo, but when I went to get our key fixed at around 9:45 on our way to the beach for pictures...the lady informed me that checkout was at 10. Ooops! We had most of our stuff packed, but not totally and we had planed to eat lunch in our room. I expained this to the nice lady, and she was gracious enough to give us until 11. So we had to rush through the pictures. I also didn't like the lighting as much as I did when we've done it at sunset in the past. As you can see from our eyes...it was very BRIGHT!!! Our eyes are opened, but just barely! Bright sun and white sand are not good bed fellows when taking pictures.

They still turned out pretty well, considering.