This past week we took Parker to Florida for a little winter getaway. It turned out to be a good time to be away from Rochester as it had single digit temps & a foot of snow last weekend. We enjoyed pretty good weather down south: not much rain, low 70's. Here are videos of us packing the night before and waiting for rental car:
We flew in and out of Tampa and stayed most nights at Papa G's house in Rotonda West, which is about two hours south. Upon arrival on Saturday, we had a different destination planned and after lunch with our friends Nate & Angela in Tampa, we headed over to Orlando and checked in to the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek. We didn't make it down to the pool until 6:00 pm, so it was dark, but we had so much fun anyway. The pool had a lazy river and was nice and warm. We even experienced some swimming in the rain! We went up to the room to change and back down to have dinner at the poolside restaurant.
Greg & Parker to the left, it was raining
The next morning we had breakfast and then headed over the to the Magic Kingdom! It all went very smoothly and Greg and I were pretty pleased with ourselves by the end of the day. The Fast Pass is a wonderful thing that allows you to get a pre-determined time for a ride where your wait time is very short. We used this for any ride with a line longer than 10 minutes. I even had an app on my phone that listed current wait times for rides, awesome! I feel like Parker was in awe most of the day, with an open-mouthed expression for everything. She did love the Tea Cup ride and the Dumbo ride. We finally got her to nap by taking her on the Carousel of Progress, a rotating theater with a VERY dated show on the evolution of household conveniences. After the show was over, we put in her the stroller and had ourselves a bit of people watching. That nap time enabled us to stay for the lighting of Cinderella's Castle Christmas Lights, it was pretty cool.
Mesmerized by the Mickey Show
Waiting in line for It's a Small World
Waiting for food at Columbia Harbor House (she actually asked me to take her picture here, funny)
Riding Prince Charming's Carousel
Riding Dumbo
Riding the train
Napping
First ever ice cream cone (she's had lots of ice cream, just not in a cone, it took some coaching)
Dinner at Gaston's
Main Street on the way out
View from ferry ride back to parking lot
We drove down to Larry's house that night and of course Parker slept most of the way. She kept saying, "Mommy, I'm tired" and she finally zonked out.
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