Florida

We spent a week in Florida a little while back. Ben had a conference down there, so he took all of us with him. It was Nora's first time flying and Henry's hundredth (give or take). He was excited for the flight, but the turbulence made him nervous. He kept telling the plane to "be careful." When we'd land, he'd say, "Thank you plane, see you later," and then tell me he didn't want to "go up in the air again."

We flew into Miami and spent a day down there (eating in Little Havana is a must. I had no idea how amazing rice and beans could be--not to mention the slabs of fried cheese. Mmm). We did some late night swimming on the roof top pool and saw as much of Miami as we could see in such little time. My only regret is that we didn't get to spend enough time at the beach. We basically stopped by just say we'd seen it, and then we ran out of time.

The rest of the week was spent in Orlando. We stayed at a great resort where the conference was being held. There were koi ponds, live alligators and even a real boat inside the resort.

It rained a lot of the time we were there, but whenever there was sun, we took advantage and went straight to the pool. Our first day there, Ben even let me spend an hour by myself in the adults-only pool.

Henry and Nora both had a lot of fun in the pool as well, though the one time we got Henry to go down a slide, he just walked down.

 

Most of the time, we wandered around the hotel. There was a tasty buffet where all of the waiters marveled at how much Henry ate (and I swelled with pride).

Luckily it was a huge, gorgeous resort, so it was not hard to entertain ourselves during the day.

 

We took the kids to Disney World on Wednesday. We were going to do multiple days, but I'm glad we didn't. Disney with kids is exhausting.

But we had a really good time. And since it rained on and off that day, the lines were really short.

The firework show that night was pretty amazing too. It scared Henry, but he manage to still sing along to Let it Go.

Neither one of our flights went as planned. Our flight down to Miami was delayed and then rerouted through Atlanta (apparently it's possible for a plane to not be able to fly through clouds?), so we got in six hours late.

Then we missed our flight back and had some issues going through security (Orlando airport is the WORST) so we got home really late. Luckily our kids are amazing.

For real though, we kept them out so late every night and they were great. Having a newborn and a 2 year old isn't always fun, so it's nice to have moments like these to remind me how great they are.