Vacation

Wow, what a vacation. My father said we were brave taking 2 young kids to Disney World...I said we were insane. But the trip actully went very well. The kids were good for a 4 year old and 10 month old. We have had a great week and tonight we are packing to go home. I wish we could stay 3 more weeks, I am just not ready to get back to what awaits me at home and at work. We have been staying this week at the Marriott Grand-Vista, a resort in Orlando that my parents own a timeshare at. It is a beautiful place with 4 pools and 3 resturants. Thanks mom and dad for letting us use it this week!!!! We spent most of our time at Magic Kingdom. We were going to try to do most of the parks but realized that the kids needed to rest every other day in order to be bearable for a day at the park. We enjoyed Sea World the first day and then Ada's special day was Monday. She got the full treatment by her Fairy Godmother at the Bippidy Boppidy Boutique, inside Cinderella's Castle. Then we ran to Epcot, literally because we had a reservation to have dinner with the princesses and her pampering took longer than we thought. You can see from the pictures that she fell asleep when we got to Epcot and we tried to wake her up as the first princess came to our table...she was still partly asleep when Sleeping Beauty came by. We thought that was quite appropriate. In the end it was worth it and she thought it was great. We are already planning our next trip for the 2010...before we have to pay for Mary-Allyn's ticket...we still have 5 days of a 7 day hopper to use (we got the non expiration ones). We enjoyed the pool a couple of days and today we had hoped to go to the pool but the weather was not cooperating so Brad and Ada took a swan out for a swim. Ada had been asking to do it all week and that is what she called it...taking the swan out for a swim. The lake was right out our window...and she loved it. The only bad part of the week is that it was hot...we just took lots of showers...we didn't have to pay for the water. And that we didnt' get to see our friends that we came with very much ....our schedule was just different with the baby. No back to reality!!!!! So long Mickey and friends...