Here is the 1st post of several, documenting our first trip as a family. We had SO much luggage. We had O's car seat, the stroller, 2 checked bags, a carry on, my purse, and the diaper bag. Oh ya, and Owen, who hates to be in the stroller and would much rather walk, er, run in the opposite direction in which we need to travel. Darn independent toddler. I was in charge of Owen and the stroller, and Chris was in charge of the rest. Owen made it through security okay, and we even had to take off his little shoes, lol. I had to hold back the jokes about what size of bomb would fit into a baby's size 5-wide shoe because I heard that you get arrested if you even mention the word "bomb" in an airport.
Here is Owen, watching our plan pull up to the hallway thing. He was pretty fascinated by the planes.
He was also fascinated by my purse, like always. I have no idea what it is about my purse that he loves. We gave him an old purse and filled it with little toys (I probably shouldn't admit that here, lol) but he won't play with that one. It has to be mommy's purse, or NO purse!
On our way! O was a complete angel during the flight. Apparently since he has tubes in his ears the pressure doesn't bother him, and it seemed to be that way. He was awake for about 20 minutes at the beginning of the flight, and then slept the rest of the flight. It was heavenly. If you look closely behind us, you will see 3 young boys. They were traveling by themselves, and they kept buying Monster Energy Drinks from the flight attendant. I am sure that the caregiver who picked them up in Orlando REALLY appreciated that!
Sleepy little boy. He is such a cuddle bug!
Here is O in Orlando! He read his book for about 1 minute before he was sick of being in his stroller. He was ready to party in Orlando International Airport!
Our hotel! We were upgraded to a room with an exterior balcony which was awesome! I am a *tad* overprotective though, and was nervous about taking Owen out on the balcony, lest he jump out of our arms and over the railing. You know how often that happens....
Our view of Sea World. It was a 4 minute walk from our hotel room to the entrance of Sea World. SCORE! Even though we were in Orlando (Disney mania) we didn't do Disney. We figured that Owen would just be scared of the characters, and he is too young to go on the rides. Right now he is so into animals so we got tickets to Sea World (6 day pass) and Busch Gardens. Busch Gardens is pretty much like a zoo/theme park, so that was awesome. When I blog about Busch Gardens, you will see some pretty hysterical video.
I made Chris keep Owen way back from the railing, because I am completely rational. O was getting pretty excited by this point, he was pointing at Sea World, and doing his nervous giggle. Chris had to change before we did anything because it was HOT, HOT, HOT!
Here is another view of our room. It was freaking huge! Plenty of room for Owen to run around. I could have done without the coffee table with the super-sharp edges, but whatever.
We had to explore the hotel. It was the Renaissance Resort, and I was a little nervous about staying there, because although it is a 4-star hotel, I had read some mixed reviews on Tripadvisor.com. However, I am an extremely picky person when it comes to hotels, and this hotel was GREAT. Our room was very, very clean, the people were nice, the restaurants were good, it was close to Sea World, and they forgot to charge us for parking the entire time! Yipee!
After we got settled in our hotel room, we had to make a WalMart run to buy food for Owen. He is an extrememly picky eater, and will only consistently eat about 5 things. It is pretty awesome and convienent. This WalMart trip wound up consuming our entire evening, thanks to a faulty GPS. It took us to a WalMart in the 'hood of Orlando. On our last day of the trip we were driving to Dunkin' Donuts 1 mile from our hotel. We took a new route from the back of the hotel, turned the corner, and WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! A WalMart was literally 45 seconds away from our hotel the entire time. And it was a nice WM too, where I didn't have to bathe Owen when we left.
One bonus about having a Sea World view, was that we were able to see the fireworks every night. They had a beautiful display every night at 10:00. You can barely see the fireworks here, because our Point and Shoot camera isn't that great. :o)
Here is Owen, watching the fireworks! He liked them, but was more interested in going to bed. He had to rest up for the next day of vacation....our first day at SEA WORLD!!!
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