Our trip to Florida

Well the kids were on fall break this week so we planned a trip to Florida. We did one of those cheap time share deals and went to Universal Studios instead of Magic Kingdom. We got a condo which was very nice and it was close to everything. We drove down instead of flying which turned out better than I thought. We left on Saturday morning with plans on staying the night somewhere in Georgia. I called my brother on the way and he booked us a room in Valdosta. By this time my sinuses were killing me. I don't know if it was a climate change or what. Anyway, we got up Sunday and headed to the condo. We unpacked and went to Wal Mart for groceries. Luckily it was not even a mile down the road.

Shane is eating the breakfast of champions and not thrilled I'm taking his picture. We ate breakfast in the condo every morning to save money. Feeding six people really adds up!

Even though it rained some EVERY day we were there we went to the pool for a little while. After about 15 minutes it started to thunder so we had to get out. Isabella like the baby pool though because it was really warm.


We went to Universal Studios and walked around and rode some rides. It started pouring rain so we stood under a ride until it slacked off enough to walk. This is us with the Donkey from the movie Shrek. Isabella didn't quite know what to think of him because he talked.


This is us with Princess Fiona and Shrek. By this time Isabella was crying but the lady playing Fiona was really good about it and tried to comfort her. Isabella ended up blowing her a kiss as we were leaving.
This is me with Doc from Back to the Future.
This is just a shot down one of the streets where cars from the movie American Graffiti were parked. They were pretty cool to look at. That's Allen and Alex in the picture.
This is me by the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo.
Isabella eating some french fries. She did so good on the rides that she could ride and strolling around in her stroller. She's such a good little girl. If you click on this picture on view it full size you can see that we got her EARS PIERCED! She was NOT happy about it but she's been great with it. She hasn't pulled at them once. We went to the Claires store down from the condo to get it done. I'll post a better close-up of her ears later.

4 out of 6 of us on the carousel. She loved it and I have video to post of it which I'll do later too.


The famous Cat in the Hat. Isabella gave him a "high five".
After it stopped raining we took a break to get dessert and coffee at the Hard Rock Cafe. Then we went over to Islands of Adventure which had more roller coasters. I'll scan the pictures we got from Hard Rock and the Hulk Rollercoaster and post them later. I didn't take many pictures the rest of the trip because we didn't do much except shop. I felt horrible and over the counter medicine was helping. I didn't sleep well and was really tired. I ended up going to the clinic on Thursday to get some antibiotics. It helped but I should've went on Monday! Me ,Shane , and Hunter went back to Universal for the Horror Night where the have a bunch of Haunted Houses and other scary stuff. It was pretty good but it rained off and on that night too. We only stayed about 4 hours because it was packed--shoulder to shoulder. We still had fun though.

We cut our vacation short one day and left on Friday instead of Saturday. Everyone had enough of the hot weather. Then we get back here and it's hot too. I was looking forward to about 75 degrees but no such luck. We drove straight thru instead of stopping half way. Isabella was doing fine and we were all ready to get home. We let Shane drive some going down and coming back and I must say that he did very well.

We are glad to be back in Kentucky and back to our same routine.

By the way, It's my friend Cynthia's birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! (I sent you an e-mail )