We arrived Sunday to a gorgeous house about 10 minutes away from Disney World. The house was so amazing, it was in a gated community, and it had 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, and a private pool outside on our back deck, along with a full kitchen and cooking supplies - all for less than 6 people could stay at a hotel per night.
Monday Rich and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary, we got a rental car (convertible PT cruiser) and we went to a place called 'Old Town' - easiest way to describe it is think of the State Fair add about 50 more stores you can look around in, and that's old town, one big midway.
Tuesday we all went to Disney World - Epcot. It was amazing as well! We explored the different nations of the world, we even got to eat at an authentic Oktoberfest, of which we had entertainment and really really yummy food! The entertainers played the alp horns, bells, sang, and even toasted
us for our anniversary! We also walked through Japan, Moroc
co, Mexico, Norway, all very authentic to the actual place - they only had people working in the certain areas that were from that place, we learned a lot about culture and the people that were from there.
Wednesday, Mom and I rested at the house and spent a little girl time together by going to Disney's boardwalk, and downtown Disney. While the boys and Hannah went out to Disney for the third day in a row.
Thursday Rich, Mom and I went to Sea World Orlando - Talk about AMAZING!! We got to hand feed sting rays, sea otters and could have fed dolphins however we kept missing the time slot. We also got to see the amazing Shamu in his water show!! We also saw, penguins, sharks (that stalked you when you walked by), and manatees. It rained on and off today, but luckily we were inside or undercover whenever the weather was acting up! Rich also rode a ride called "The Kracken" - I could not due to the pregnancy. He loved it, and wanted to ride it over again.
Thursday night we all had a little fun going putt putt golfing! While Rich tried attacking me with his tongue. YUCK!
Friday we started packing everything back up to get ready to come back home, we returned our awesome convertible to the car shop, and spent a little time together at downtown Disney, where my brother Greg decided to propose to his girlfriend. We then went and had a celebratory dinner at Outback.
At last it was time to come back to Columbus, and get back to the daily grind of things, not that any of us really wanted to. We climbed into our van Saturday morning at 5am and said goodbye to beautiful weather, and took with us a lot of good memories.
We arrived back in Columbus Sunday just in time for the worst of the remnants of Hurricane Ike to blow us away.
