Florida Vacation Part 1

I guess it is about time that I post something about our vacation seeing as it was a month and a half ago! There are just too many pictures to choose from so I will just have to post a few every couple of days or so.
As you can see from the first 2 pics we were up at 2:30 AM to get to the airport in time. The kids were real troopers! They were awake from 2:30 am until about 2 in the afternoon when we finally got settled in our rental van. We went from the Tampa airport to our first hotel in Orlando, checked in and then went over to Downtown Disney which is where the other pictures are taken. Yes, Tyler did make it to Florida too, he just didn't want to be in many of the pictures.
Kate saw her first, although not real glimpse of the princesses. She was so excited even if it was just a statue.
Danny is standing beside a dog made completely of Legos! They had a whole "family" with the dogs as well as a large sea serpent (probably about 30 feet tall) in the water in front of the store. The kids were thrilled with the Lego store and probably could have stayed there all night long.

The last couple of pictures are of them playing in the water. Where else would Danny be? We do call him the WB for water bug. They have the water timed to music so it sprays up in preplanned intervals. I don't think the kids realized that though-to them it was completely random and they (well Dan and Kate anyway) had fun trying to dodge the water jets. I think they had more fun when they misjudged!
Our next day was at the Magic Kingdom-more on that later.

We had such a wonderful time on this vacation. What a blessing it was to be together for such an extended time. I am so thankful for the opportunity that we had to do this. Thank you Rick for your hard work which made it possible to have this time together. It is fun to see the kids already reminiscing about the fun that we had.