Our Trip Part 2

So I have been told I need to finnish blogging about our trip. Really just haven't felt like sitting down long enough to do it.

So I left off on Tuesday Jan 15 - our home day. I ended up taking the kids to the theatre and we took our own popcorn and drinks and it was great! The rest of the day we hung around the house and swam and then Fred and I went shopping for a bit at night.

Wednesday the 16. We went to Animal Kingdom. This is the park we heard great reviews from- like if you have any extra days spend another day at animal kingdom. Fred and I didn't reallty agree with this. There was a cool safarri ride but you go so fast and don't really get ner any of the animals. We have zoo memberships here in Calgay and we felt that you got to see the animals a lot closer at the zoo. There was only a couple of rides that the kids were big enough to go on. The highlight of our animal kingdom experience was all the characters we met. We split up this day and this is how the bests spent most of there day. We met Micky, Minnie, Donald, goofy, pluto, Tigger, piglet pooh and tigger and eyore.

Thursday 17. Everybody but the Best's went back to Nasa. We had another home day. We didn't really want another home day so soon but because it was a cooler day the other decided it was a good day to do day two of Nasa as it is mostly inside. Fred and I took the kids and drove clear across orlando in search of a woodworking shop Fred wanted a tool from. We found it- Fred got his tool then we came back to out end of the city and ate at FRIDAYS for lunch. Came home and let the kids nap - went swimming again and made supper. After Supper we left Samantha at home and we took Nate out in search of a BestBUy. We had a little bit of a adventure which involved us almost running out of gas in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. We went through two ditches to avoid toll roads and then got a little lost. All ended up okay.

Friday 18. MGM. This park is more for older kids I think. We went on a back stage tour of some special effects, we got to meet Tow-mater and lightning McQueen. Buzz lightyear and woody. We went to a stunt show and watched a few shows. Muppets, beuaty and the beast and Fantasmic. The beuty and the beast show something pretty cool happened. A worker comes up to us and tells us how cute our daughter is and that she looks like a princess, then he asks if she would like to be a princess in the show. We of course agree and they escort us to our VIP seats in the first row. At the end of the show someone escorted Samantha to the Front of the stage where the prince gave her a rose.

Saturday 19.UNIVERSAL take 2. This time we took the kids and Camden our nephew as well. THe adventure Island park has a pretty cool area based entirely on the cat and the hat. The kids really enjoyed it and cot to meet the cat in the hat and thing 1 and thing 2. We took Cam and Sam and a roller coaster and then buzzed over to Universal where we took in the 3D shrek show and then went home for a early day. My sister and I then went shopping for a few hours.

Sunday 20 Seaworld Day 2. We needed to go back to seaworld because when we went the first time we skipped the Shamu show. So we went to the shamu show and fed the dolphins again. Which is such a cool thing. I could spend all day doing that. For $6 you buy a little tray of food and you hand feed it to the dolphins. The kids love seeing them that close and Samantha got to touch one but Nates little arms weren't long enough.

Monday 21. Fred and I and the kids went out shopping again. We went in search of that Bestbuy. This time we found it and secured a wireless mouse that is 30 cheaper then at home. We went a scenic way and got to see a lot of Orlando. Also stopped in at Costco just to check it out(Tasha
is slightly addicted) Then went home to pack.

Tues 22. Travel day. This time smoother flights and a short layover. We left the vacation house at 3:45 Am and got into Calgary at 4:30 PM. A long day. The last day Fred and the kids got a nasty cold that is still holding on and they were nice enough to share with me.

It was a fantastic Trip with lots of memories and surprisingly few family feuds. Our biggest frustration about our trip was our stupid Camera. I was so frustrated with it that Fred ended up being trip photographer. When you turned our Camera off for the most part it would choose not to turn back on. It wouldn't turn back on for the whole day - you would have to let it sit overnight and hoped it turned on in the morning. SO FRUSTRATING. It also started shifting the centering of photos. SO you could have a shot lined up perfectly and then it would come out to the way left of the screen. So send it in, get it fixed you might say but the problem is that it is a minolta. Minolta sold it product line to Sony and minoltas are no longer serviced in Canada at all. And sony will only fix certain problems, so it is like a lottery if they will fix it or not and fromn what I can gather it costs almost as much as the Camera if they will even fix it. So Fred and I are on the hunt for a new Camera. We are trying to decide if we should stay with Sony so we can use all of our lenses (5) or if we should cut our losses and switch brands. We are leaning towards Sony and there new camera has amazing reviews but it is pretty costly. They are supposed to be releasing a more intermediate model at the end of Febuary so we will probably wait to check that out.

Our Trip thus far!!!

Well today has been our first down day! So let me give you a brief rundown of events so far.

Wednesday the 9th. We leave our house at 4:15 AM to drive to north Calgary where we leave our Van and take a taxi to the airport. We then checked in and were very fortunate to be on a flight that wasn't too full so Nate could have his own seat. The first leg of our trip took us from Calgary to Toronto. We had a very bad decent and Fred got really sick. Not just I feel gross kind of sick, but the its is a good thing they put those white bags in the seat in front of you kind of sick.

We then had a crazy long layover. Just over 7 hours. Yikes! Entertaining kids with no toys or TV that have been up since 4 am with a sick husband who got sick again in a garbage can is a GONG SHOW. Not a experience I would like to repeat. We then had a great flight to Florida where Nathan again got his own seat. Everybody slept and the landing was smooth!

We arrived and got our rental car and made our way to the vacation home arriving at 12:30 there time. What a long day.

The next day all we did was hit the pool- Grocery shopped, took the kids to the park and hit the pool again.

Friday- We spent the entire day at EPCOT.
Saturday- Magic Kingdom
Sunday- Universal Studios-Adventure Island. Only Fred and I- the kids stayed with Auntie NADINE
Monday- Sea World
Tuesday- A much needed home day. We kept the kids here and my nephew as well well the others went to NASA. We are staying in a gated community and the clubhouse has a movie theatre so this afternoon I took Cam and Sammie to a show.
Tomorrow- The plan is Animal Kingdom.

Well that is it in a nutshell. We have had a fantastic time and I can't even give highlights cause there are too many, and I don't feel like being on the Computer that long.

Head Case

I am a headcase. "your just realizing this now" snickers those who know me. Tee hee well maybe Headcase is not the correct term but I did recently have my head examined. I have had a troubling spot on my head for months. It is a permanent spot of tenderness. It almost feels like it is bruised but there is no mark and it doesn't go away. I am not exaggerating at all when I say months at least 4 but I would say closer to 6. I have also been getting a lot of headaches but I don't know for sure that they are related.

When I first asked my Dr about it there was some miscommunication and he thought I was complaining of a dry skin issue and he advised me to use hydrocortizone cream. At a later appt I brought it up again and he sent me for a xray which revealed something possible a fluid build up indicating a sinus issue. He wanted to be thorough so he sent me for a CT Scan and got me in with a week, which is abnormal for Calgary. So I went to the DR again this week for the results. It is nothing serious and just a sinus infection and I am on antibiotics. I have 6 days worth of pill and I am on day 3 and so far no improvement. Hopefully they will start to kick in and it will go away and I tired of having a hurting forehead.