Making the most out of Kayla’s visit!

Making the most out of Kayla’s visit with us. She flew down to Florida with her uncle Doug and we picked her up at the airport… and thus began a great vacation time for us all. First week together was at Disney with us, Kayla, and family. We stayed an additional 2 weeks in Orlando (after family went home) to see Disney & SeaWorld as much as possible while we had Kayla with us. We went somewhere everyday. All total… if memory serves me… we went to Magic Kingdom 4 times, Epcot 3 times, Animal Kingdom 2 times, Studios 2 times, and Seaworld 2 times. We pretty much got to see and do everything… and something’s twice. Everything pretty much on the spur of the moment and where ever our next whim took us … no plans… just flittering from one thing to another… kinda like butterflies… no knowing where the rest of the day would take us. Anywhere… favorite rides, favorite shows, favorite parades and fireworks…Kayla loved the fireworks… 3 times at Magic Kingdom, twice at Epcot. She was a little scared on some of the rides… a little too dark or too fast a ride… but got over it real quick and got back on a second time. Character greetings were a big hit… she met just about everyone… Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto, all the princesses… Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine… and the fairies… Tinkerbell, and her fairy friends… and many other characters as we went from park to park. Kayla got 2 different princess outfits to wear into the parks… Snow White and Jasmine. She also got a little something from each of the parks as a keepsake. I can’t imagine how we could have done any more without falling over exhausted… the exhausted part we already had… we just hadn’t fallen over yet! Two trips to SeaWorld rounded out our vacation where we saw all the shows… Shamu’s twice… plus the Shamu night show… and again pretty well did everything… except the big coasters… maybe later! We still found time to go to Downtown Disney twice, go to the movies, eat at T-Rex, and go up in the new balloon ride… “Characters in Flight”. We thought the SeaWorld SkyTower was neat at 300 feet… the Balloon fright… I mean flight… went to 400 feet and we could see all of Disney and SeaWorld far away… this was really a treat! We saved a little time to visit some of our friends before we left Orlando and wished with well until we would see them again. What a wonderful time! Lots of great pictures! Lots of great memories! And …. some lessons learned… while Kayla got to see every Disney character… greetings, parades, shows, attractions etc…. she explained to me that Ariel wasn’t real. I asked… “What do you mean? I saw her!” … and she explained to me that Ariel was just a pretty lady dressed up to look like Ariel… she wasn’t real like the others (characters). So much to my disappointment I had to accept the fact that Ariel really wasn’t real… sure hope big Kevin doesn’t find out! Precious moments… I can still remember holding Kayla up in my arms so she could see (over the crowd) the SpectroMagic Light Parade the very first time… I spent most of my time watching her face as she saw all the floats and the performers in the parade… now that was a advertisement for “Priceless”. As I recall… my back, legs, and knees remembered that for several days too… though not with quite the same degree of happiness. And so ended our whirlwind Disney Adventures… and I was looking forward to Myrtle Beach and a little more relax time… well… maybe in Virginia!