well, we got home yesterday from our fun family vacation. i am so impressed with my kids. they were so good the entire time, from the plane ride there to the plane ride home. the first 3 days we spent in ocala with our friends and their 2 little boys. they live on an acre of land, and are surrounded by horses, goats, and cows. the kids had fun running around and feeding the goats. i had fun because i got to go to olrando and do some good shopping. a vacation is not a vacation to me unless there is shopping involved (seriously). darrel hates to shop, so i usually don't get to do much at all. this time i got to do lots because he was happy spending time with arron while mallie and i spent some money. then monday, we took the kids to daytona beach. they had fun playing in the ocean and the sand. it's neat there because you get to park right on the beach. after the beach we headed off to our "otella" as ryan calls it (i think he got confused because we were staying in ocala at a hotel and just maybe thought we were saying otella...) in orlando. tuesday started our disney fun. we went to epcot first. i was so bummed because ryan was less than 1/4 inch from the required 40 inches for most of the fun rides. they are very strict about that rule! we still had fun. after epcot we went to the magic kingdom. it is almost identical to disneyland. it wasn't too busy. i think we only had to wait 20 mins at the most for the rides. we had a full 13 hour day of fun! the next day we started out at the animal kingdom. it was very crowded, so we went on 2 rides and headed over to hollywood studios. we did lunch with a bunch of the disney character from different shows. the kids freaked out every time one came over to our table. it was fun for darrel and me to watch their reactions (are we mean parents or what?). after lunch we went back to the magical kingdom. there we hardly any lines at all! it was nice to not have to wait. by the end of the 2nd day we were all exhausted! i can't believe that ryan and emily kept up with us the whole time (or vice versa), and did not even have any melt downs (or vice versa ;>). this was my first time going to disney world. we did have a great time, but i don't think i will be going back any time soon. i don't know if it because i am used to it, but i like disneyland better. and besides that, it's much easier to get to! my favorite part of the whole trip was the first day at disney, when we were leaving epoct. i was holding emily's hand while we were walking out. ryan then needed to hold her hand and then daddy's hand to. we were all lined up holding hands walking out and ryan said, "mommy are we such a happy family?" i just thought that was so sweet.
this was our fun lunch with the different characters. doesn't ryan look like he did when he was a little baby?
this was em's favorite ride. the whole time is was going she would just giggle. as we were getting off she would wave at the horses and say "bye bye" then tell me "ride, gain" there was never a line for this ride so we got to go on it over and over.
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Cute. I'm glad that you guys had fun. So, you wouldn't recommend Disney World?
Cute Pictures! It looks like you had alot of fun! I didn't even know you went! Emily looks so cute in the picture of her on the merry go round. I think Hannah has that same shirt,(is it navy blue with white stitching, and did you get it from Mervyns?)That is great that you got to go on a fun family vacation! We are planning on going to disneyland next year after Dave graduates from ortho school, you should plan to come with us, infact, everyone should! It would be so much fun! We miss you guys, we need to come there or vice versa!
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