the monkeys!

We got the kids these cute monkeys at the rainforest cafe and they just loved them! They were hanging them all sorts of ways all over themselves...it was very creative!

rainforest cafe

So our first day in Orlando, we went to Downtown Disney to eat at the Rainforest Cafe. I thought DD was a lot of fun and would definitely go there again. We rode the ferry across the water to the cafe, which looks like a rainforest...hence the name. They periodically have thunderstorms in it and the animals will come to life every now and then. The food was really good...I'm sure we were starving...but we had a lot of fun there. We walked around after that, to the Disney toy stores and Legoland, but it was soooo hot, that it wasn't much fun. So we headed back to the resort pool.

the drive

10 hours on 95! We left in the morning and I had packed PLENTY of things for the kids to do. I did use the cookie tray idea, which serves as a hard surface to color on, and it doesn't let things fall off of it because of the little edge. The kids really liked that and colored a lot. Whoever said kids sleep on car trips? We did force a nap on them and after some crying they slept for a bit. It turns out North Carolina is the longest state to go through...I would have thought Georgia, but it's not. So we made one wrong turn in Jacksonville, but got to cross this really cool bridge, which the kids considered the first roller coaster of the trip and screamed the whole way down. When we finally got there, the kids spent the evening in Nancy and Lew's pool. Then the next morning we left for Orlando.

Nancy said to call her my favorite aunt!

We're here

We're at Nancy and Lew's house in Jacksonville! We got here in 9.5 hours which was pretty good...there was no traffic. Joaquin and Isabela swam in their pool, and Joaquin must have been in there for two hours going full force the whole time. We're off to Orlando tomorrow!

Orlando, here we come!

We'll be on our way to Florida pretty soon! We decided to drive...I hope that turns out well, I tend to get sleepy easily, so it might be alot on JP...not to mention the kids! We haven't planned at all what we'll do, except we have to do a time share presentation on Friday morning. Feel free to make suggestions....we're leaning toward SeaWorld and then relaxing by the pool for the rest of it.

solve this

just a small announcement....see Psalm 127:3...and let me know what you think!