Week in Review - Home Sweet Home!

We went, we had a nice relaxing visit, and now we're home. Its always fun to go on a trip, but nothing beats coming home to your own home, and especially, your own bed!

Here are some of the highlights...

We saw so many different varieties of birds. White ones, gray ones, brown ones and many more.

Seeing an endangered gopher tortoise in the wild. This guy lives on the road my parents live on. When I was a kid, I remember standing on top of these turtles and having gopher races. If you've never seen one, they're HUGE! The things kids do...

The kids love to go swimming in my uncle's pool. We went on two different occasions this trip, and kids absolutely wore themselves out...so did Pop Pop!

Our last morning was spent packing up, and Glen and Adam went fishing.  Check out these monster fish they caught!  Glen did catch an alligator gar which was really creepy.

Another thing the boys always look forward to doing at grandma and pop pop's house is watching pop pop's trains run.  My grandfather built this train set probably before I was born.  It has replicas of the house they lived in while they lived in Berlin during the war, as well as the house my grandfather designed and built when they moved to the United States.  Many of the trains are from Germany.  My father has been restoring the train table over the past several years since he brought it home with him.

We had such a nice time, but its good to be home.  I missed my kitty Anabelle!  Now I have to face reality and tackle a mountain of laundry and all the unpacking.  How was your week?  To see what other families have been up to this past week, check out the Week in Review post at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

Five days of Disney!

Day 1 was spent enjoying Mother's Day at our resort. We stayed at Disney's All Star Movies Resort and lucked into getting a room in the 101 Dalmations building.



Day 2 we headed off to Disney's Animal Kingdom. This was our 2nd trip to this park and we enjoyed it just as much. If you've never been there, I highly recommend it. This time we purchased the park hopper option which made this trip so much better!



We wore ourselves out at Animal Kingdom, then went back to our hotel to swim and eat dinner. Then we headed over to Disney Studios for the after hours perk as a hotel guest. We were able to ride most everything with little to no wait. Haley rode her first upside down roller coaster! She loved the Rockin Roller Coaster so much that she rode it twice that night.



Day 3 we started out at Epcot to check out the Festival of Flowers. They had the most incredible topiaries I have ever seen. We rode Soarin first thing due to the long wait times on this ride. It was really incredible. You really do feel like you're flying high over California! After that we headed over to the Magic Kingdom.





Day 4 started out back at Disney and finished up at Epcot to check out World Showcase. Our last day was spent first back at Disney Studios, and then back to the Magic Kingdom. We got to meet so many characters on this trip! Disney Studios is a great place to meet them without such long lines.