vacation Sunday: meeting

Three of the four families were all in the same hotel, so we slowly met each other throughout the morning.

The women had a plan: a year ago we had all bought the same shirt (albeit in two different colors).  We wore them today to see how long it would take people to notice.  Violet was the first person to notice and did a good job of staying quiet.

We all met in the same place same time a bit later for mini golf at Disney.  We thought we were going to need to pay (a lot) for parking, but we didn't!  It was a great start to vacation.

Eva noticed our shirts right away and announced it to the families that were there...which was almost everyone but not quite.  (This is important for later.)

Mini golf was great!  It was a little hot, but we moved through the course well.

At the end of mini golf we were all standing around waiting for everyone to finish and we talked about the shirts.  Ben and Isaac both had their *aha* moments that we were wearing the same shirt.

Then we went to the Florida mall.  The girls went to have lunch at the American Girl store and the guys hung out in the mall and went to the arcade.  The (male) employee at the American Girl store noticed that we all had the same shirts and asked for the story.  It was rather funny that he noticed when we weren't even all standing together.

Ben and I took Marshall and skipped the shopping.  (It was probably a good choice...Costco was apparently a mass of humanity and didn't need five more people.)  Unfortunately, our house took an extra hour to get ready and they have some serious parking/towing rules.  We ended up by a shaded playground for a bit and Ben stayed with the car.  Katy and the girls joined us for a bit (Ryan stayed with the car) and then we got to the house.

It was a lovely house!  Tons of bedrooms, clean, and large.  The ninja room was an instant hit and the arcade room was free.  The fun bedrooms were fun.  The kids were instantly gone exploring.

Isaac and Joshua ended up with the Mario room to themselves, although no kids had luggage or anything in a fun room.  There were enough rooms that every family had two rooms, plus the fun rooms, plus a spare.

There was also a candy room, a pirate ship (not pictured yet), and a ninja course room.

One of the reasons we chose this house was due to the private pool, which got used a lot.