Florida Vaca

Oh, so much to write about ...

So Bob and I got to have a little getaway to Florida the last week of January. We had been looking forward to this vacation for - I don't know - like 3 months. Just a Wednesday - Sunday thing, with business meetings in between and what not. But we were SO excited to hit up Universal Studios and check out their new Harry Potter addition.

Well the time FINALLY came for us to go to Florida. Bob and I were feeling amazing, we were so excited! We had a great family that we were swapping kids with for the weekend. Really everything was fitting perfectly together - as we had planned...

So we get there Wednesday and just relaxed, enjoyed the night. Thursday we, along with Bobs dental staff, all went to some Dental meetings. Things seemed fine until about 3pm, Bob started getting really pale looking as he hunched over at our table - arms folded over his stomach and what not. Finally, after much debate, he left the class and threw up. Obviously, shortly after that he went back to the hotel room.

Needless to say we had previously planned a super fun night ahead of us - we planned on hitting Downtown Disney with all the staff, taking everyone to dinner, and just having an awesome night walking through Downtown Disney (which is really fun)... instead we spent the night in our hotel room, Bob throwing up every couple hours, and me eating some nasty microwavable dinner and cheetos. SO not the dinner I was planning on (especially mixed with the smell of our throw up hotel room).

So the night before I had called to check in on the kids. Averi had pooped on their floor the first day, and I guess there was a lot of drama. Day 2 I was SUPER nervous to call and hear how they did, but the mom never answered the phone. I left a message, totally planning to get a return phone call - but never got one. Usually I would just keep calling to find out if everything was okay, but really at this point I just thought it would be better not to know ...

Friday Bob was sick 1/2 the day, but got feeling a little better. After meetings that day our staff headed back to Denver. Bob and I stayed and hit Blue Man Group that night, which was amazing! We LOVED it!

Saturday we headed over the Universal Studios. So here's what I have to say about it.... Harry Potter was VERY cool. We really enjoyed walking around, drinking the butter beer, eating at one of the restaurants, watching the wand picking the wizard show, and really just the overall magic of the Harry Potter theme. It was very very cool, and I would definitely say it's worth going to if you're in town. However - don't go there first and then expect to spend the rest of the day around the rest of Universal Studios. If we did it again I think we would have gone to the other places (if at all) and then hit Harry Potter. All in all, everything else was super lame compared to the Harry Potter area. The rest is super outdated and old. But Harry Potter really was quite unreal. Very cool!

At this point I still hadn't heard about how the kids were doing, but clearly got the hint that things weren't spectacular since I hadn't gotten a return phone call...

Sunday was wonderful! We found a park and read out in the warm sun for like 8 hours! It was fabulous and totally relaxing!

Sunday night we flew home (which was actually a whole 'nother story) - totally landed like 3 hours later than I expected and had told the family watching Averi and Truman. So of coarse we show up at their house at like 10pm. Everyone in bed and all ... completely learned our lesson on that one :)

So then we got the spill on our kids. It's amazing how great a day or weekend can be without your kids, and then how quickly it can all be spoiled when you find out they'd been sick all weekend - throwing up at someone else's house. Making someone else clean up poop on their carpet, throw up, and of coarse to top it off - bloody noses :0

Really?

So we've had lots of "hey how was Florida" "Did you guys have a blast?" "How was it without your kids?" and really .... I still don't really know how to answer that question...

It was fine

We'll leave it at that!

And I TOTALLY never thought that would be my description of a 5 day vaca to Florida - but there it is!

However, here are some pics nonetheless...