How I spent my summer vacation...

On Saturday, my daughter-in-law, her two children, and I left Maine in search of summer! We told the kids we were travelling until we found summer. At 8 and 3 they were up for the challenge. Haliey thought we should go to Texas to find summer and Jordan thought we might find it at Nana's (here in Maine) but Amy and I KNEW summer was hiding out in Florida! We packed our sunscreen, bathing suits, and flip flops and flew from Manchester New Hampshire airport to Orlando for a brief visit to the "happiest place on earth", Disney World! Haliey figured it out as soon as we got to the airport...I did not know that second graders could read "Orlando"..actually she did not see the sign at the gate but she heard the boarding announcement. Her face was a kodak moment...unfortunately my "sony" and her mom's "fuji" were not ready for the big moment so it was not recorded anywhere but in our very fond memories of Haliey. Her brother is another story. Three year olds are so self absorbed and unaware sometimes....we posed him in front of the Magical Express sign, he shook hands with the large Mickey hand as we boarded the bus, and he watched the movie on the bus UNTIL TINKERBELL made an appearance and he asked his mom in his dear little voice, "is summer in Florida?"
It was hot hot hot in the daytime. I got up early because my body does not understand vacation mode yet and sat at the beach. I heard my name bellowed, a door slam, and the moment of peace was over...two kids and a grammy in pjs on the beach in florida at 6:30 am --wonderful! We went to Disney Marketplace, made our own tshirts, ate lunch at the TREX restaurant, played in the fountains, and enjoyed the morning. We headed back to the resort (Carribean Beach) changed and went to the big pirate pool for the rest of the afternoon. We had planned that if Jordan took a nap, we would go to the Magic Kingdom that night. It was extra magic hours and MK was open until 2am...We knew the recipe....sun + play + pool = nap...well Jordan had other ideas...he fell asleep at 7:30 and slept for 2 hrs. We decided not to go and watched the fireworks from our beach instead. The next day we did the pool all morning, went back to Disney Marketplace to ride the train and buy some pins. We took the boat over to Fort Wilderness and had dinner at Trail's End. Our server was from Bath, Maine. He had worked at BIW for 10 years before moving south.
We never did make it to the parks and you know what....nobody minded! It was a totally relaxing and fun filled 4 day adventure. We searched for summer; we found it; we came home trying to bring it with us--today tells me it got scared and went back home...