Can you say spoiled?

Living in Tampa, we have had our share of Disney the past few years.  Mick's Dad gave us the money for season passes in 2008 and then again in 2009.  2009 was a wonderful military deal where we get 5 days at the parks and 5 visits to a waterpark/Disneyquest/golf.  With the chaos/exhaustion of this last year, we had 4 visits left with the parks.  So we come to Orlando for 6 days during Thanksgiving week.

Reservations at Chef Mickey at 9:25 on Tuesday morning.  Audrey begs off and asks if she can stay with Nana.  I read "Sibling Rivalry" the last few weeks and they say that you don't have to have family togetherness all of the time, so I let her stay home.

We go to the breakfast, have a fun time.  All of the big stars are there.  Goofy, Pluto, Donald, Minnie and, best of all, Mickey. 

We hop the monorail and went to the Magic Kingdom.  We walk in and Mick breathes deeply and says "Ahhh!  The most stressful place on earth!"  :) 

We try and show the kids a good time and Claire screams her way through Mickey's Philharmagic and then the Pooh ride and we make an exit. 

We come home and Audrey tells of her day.  She slept until 10:45, watched some television, went to the pool, it was cold, sat in the hot tub and then played cards with Nana. 

Olivia starts crying and yells, "IT'S NOT FAIR!  AUDREY GOT TO STAY HOME AND DO ALL THIS FUN STUFF AND I HAD TO GO TO DISNEYWORLD!!!!!!!!!"

Not the Most Efficient Travelers

Mick and I.....we're not the most efficient travelers.  We're at peace with that.  We try to set low expectations and then we don't meet them.  But we really outdid ourselves a few days ago.

Thanksgiving week.  Kids off all week.  Leaving for 6 days for Orlando to use up our Disneyworld passes before December 23rd.  Mick didn't go to work on Monday, I had a few things to do, Claire went to "school", pack and go.  What could take so long?

So we didn't begin packing until 3:00.  Audrey went out to the car to sit and wait for us to go, like a dog, around 4:30.  Olivia joins Audrey around 4:45.  Claire joins the two of them at 5:00.  Spike at 5:05.  5:15.....are we leaving?  Working, working, working at getting that "one last thing" in the car.  Many trips back to the house.  Then we are off, 2 block away to take Spike to our friends' house.

Walk into my friends' house, throw Spike's blanket down in their office (their house is exactly like ours) and turn around and notice the stunned faces before me.  It was a misunderstanding that they were watching Spike.  Spike back in the car, back to our house.  Ask our neighbors, "Can you watch Spike?"  Back in the car, off to get Claire, 5:40. 

Get Claire, walk to the car and say, "Forgot to pack my and Claire's swimsuits." 

Back to the house.  Mick goes in to get the swimsuits and for some reason, decides to clean Spike's water dish.  Distracted.  (I am secretly getting three things that I forgot while this is going on.) 

Back in the car, off to Arby's, an inordinate amount of time in the drive thru where they forget to give us our popcorn chicken and we're back to the road where we're passing Claire's school and Mick realizes......he left our swimsuits on the kitchen counter. 

It's 6:45.  I tell him I'll skinnydip and away we go. 

8:30 and we arrive in Orlando.  We made it!!!!!!

Well, now we're blogging again

So, I tried to blog before and didn't make it a priority.  Now I hear that the blog can be downloaded and printed into a photo album.  So here I am.  Now what should I write?  And how do you post pictures?