Friday: being loud

Joshua had a loud day today.

On our walk today Joshua barked at birds, trying to scare them.


And then we had a fight with Morro's Dragon.  The roars are at the beginning of the video.  We had to do this fight today because Bob's birthday is tomorrow.  (Bob is Ben's mouse.)  In order to fight the birthday fights tomorrow we had to do this fight today.  Joshua has reminded us about this several times today.


It was also a beautiful day so the doors were open quite a bit.  The cats thoroughly enjoyed it.

Anniversary picture

One last one...

Happy 15th Anniversary.

Vacation Saturday

We had some time at the resort before we needed to get ready to leave.  I took the boys to eat breakfast when they woke up so that Ben and Cheryl could sleep a little bit more.  Afterwards we looked at all the cars.  Joshua wanted his picture taken by every car!  It surprised me a bit since he is usually not one for pictures.

Make sure to check out the one in the top left...we saw that one by the playground and he wanted a picture with it too.

Around the time we were done with the playground Ben and Cheryl were done with breakfast.  Ben took them swimming while I packed up.  Then we joined them at the car pool as they were about to move to the third pool.  So we walked, and walked, and walked and finally reached the other end of the resort with the pool.  It was cool seeing all the sculptures of The Little Mermaid and The Lion King on the way though.

Then we went back to the room, had an early lunch and it was time to go.  It was a great vacation and rather sad that we needed to leave.  The airport and flights back went fine.  Well, they went fine because Ben had spent a half hour on the phone the previous night with them.  There was a flight number change and the airline didn't handle it all that well.  The screens never showed us the gate that we were supposed to go to and the gate never showed that it was the flight for Grand Rapids.  But we were surrounded by people that were in the same boat, and the plane came to the gate we were sitting at so it all worked out.

Vacation Friday

Today we went to Animal Kingdom! 

We started with the safari.

I always get several giraffe pictures due to Isaac's lovey, Giraffe.

Isaac did some of the explorer stickers.  The one about scorpions was very interesting; real scorpions glow in black light.

We had a yummy lunch with friends.

We ended up in Dinosaur land after lunch, and it was getting hot out.  We went on the little dino ride because the line was pretty short.

The big dinosaur ride wait wasn't too bad, so we went on that too.  It was maybe not the best option for Joshua since it was in the dark with scary dinos flashing you, but he was a trooper.  I think he just closed his eyes and endured.

Of course, the kids needed Mickey Bars.

We went to the Lion King show (which was excellent) and then could finally get on Avatar since they got it fixed.  Joshua was too small for the ride, so we did rider swap...but this meant that Joshua had quite a bit of wait time.   First he was with Cheryl and played with some bubbles and then he was with Ben and they had some ice cream.

I was going to let Ben join Isaac and Cheryl on the second ride, but Ben got a bit sick on the ride so I got to go twice!  It was pretty awesome.  I feel like the screen was out of focus a little bit and that was distracting, but feeling like you're flying straight down but still being able to breathe was wonderful!  They did a good job with it.

We finished up the day with dinner and going to the dino playground.  A lovely day again.

Thursday: playground

After a 50% (or less) chance of rain all day, it rained until about 1pm.  (This has been the status quo for the weather lately.  It just keeps raining.)

Anyway, I was a driver for Isaac's end of school picnic.  We went anyway, even though it was raining.  It wasn't raining too hard, just enough to be considered raining.  We ate under a gazebo and then Isaac's teacher decided that the kids could still play at the playground for a while even though it was drizzly.

I was on zip-line duty and helped about 200 kids with the zip-line.  Some could get on by themselves, some needed a lot of help.  But most had a hard time getting up the ramp because it was slippery.

Isaac's teacher called it about an hour and a half early.  It wasn't super warm out and half the kids were wet.  Isaac got to come home early with me and I think they watched a movie or something at school.

Wednesday: nap

During my short nap today the cats curled up between my legs.  It was cute.

We went out for dinner with Dad and Pat.  On the way there, Isaac asked the following question: "Pretend there was a building the size of a tree.  Are there more trees in the world or more quarks in the building?"  We get talking a bit and he clarifies that it isn't the thing that goes in a bottle. 

Amanda: oh, a cork?
Isaac: yeah
Amanda: They're different...cork and quark
Isaac and Joshua: HAHAHAHA.  You just said the same thing.
Amanda: cork and quark?
Isaac and Joshua:  HAHAHAHA

Tuesday: testing

Isaac and I tested for our orange belts in karate today.  I'm not sure anyone ever fails at this point.  So...we passed.

Also, in new reasons to not go to sleep...Joshua wants to continue coloring his Pluto pillowcase.  He was in tears.  I just told him we could definitely do that: just maybe at a better time.