Animal Kingdom

Our annual family trip to Orlando was a wild time. In one year we've added a precious baby boy(Leo), a pretty girlfriend(Heather), and her beautiful daughter(Ava), to the mix. We drove down to the Fountains in Orlando on a Friday and spent the afternoon splashing in the pool...
We also sipped frozen cocktails poolside before heading up to the room to cook spaghetti, salad and garlic bread for the family who arrived late that night.

Isla and I wore matching flower headbands, that I made for us, all weekend. :)

Isla and Gigi enjoyed a little game of Break the Ice while waiting on dinner to be served.

And then we dug into our spaghetti plates. It looks like it was delicious....

Saturday morning we headed out early for Animal Kingdom. We arrived at 9 and stayed until 5. It was a long, hot day, which started out great but ended with Isla saying, "Let's get out of this place." The safari ride, which we rode first thing, was the hit of the day. Isla rode in Coach's lap and stared in awe at all of the animals.

Then we headed to the Nemo show. Bruce the Shark terrifies Isla so it didn't go over too well. It looks like Ava liked it though.

By this time the kids were already worn out so John and I found a cool, shady place and enjoyed some pizza and ice cold beer. And look at these two angels. :)

After another show, the Lion King, we headed to the Rainforest cafe for some A/C and lunch for Isla and Leo. This place was really neat but scared Isla because every 10 minutes the sounds of the rainforest rang out. WOW, I don't know how you work there. I was ready to go after 30 min. Isla literally asked for a to go box so she could finish her lunch in the stroller.

Then we decided to go to a 3 D Bug show that ended up traumatizing Isla for life. I have to admit, that thing was scary! There were effects like water and wind blowing in your face at the same time that 100 bees are flying toward you. That's when I knew that Isla would never want to come back here again.

We ended the day watching the parade which was very cute. Little Leo didn't know what to think of the whole day but he was a trooper, esp. since two days later we discovered he was battling an impressive double ear infection the whole time. Poor wittle guy...

Thank you Animal Kingdom for the Safari ride, cold beer, and well, the train ride to the parking lot. :) I think the only Kingdom we'll be visiting in Orlando is the Magic one.