Sunday, October 21, 2007:
Today we didn’t go to any parks. We went to the cafeteria style restaurant for breakfast. There were lots of choices for breakfast (not free) from waffles to pancakes, french toast. They all came with a side of sausage or bacon or eggs… There were also bakery things- pastries, muffins, cinnamon rolls. The kids each got waffles in the shape of a mickey head- two small ones and sausage and bacon and applesauce as a side dish. After breakfast we went back to the hotel room and had a little family devotional. We read some scriptures and talked a little while about temples and faith. Then we drove over to the Orlando temple. There wasn’t anyone there, it’s closed on Sundays, but the grounds are open so we walked around the outside some and took some pictures. Then we went back to the hotel.
At the hotel the kids were dying to go swimming so we changed and walked over to the big main pool. The hotel is actually a large spread out hotel with numerous buildings. There are about three or four “small pools” that really are about 2-3 times the size of our neighborhood pool here, and then one large pool with a slide and waterfall feature, and a kiddy pool. We went over to that big pool. We probably swam and played for a couple of hours.
After a while Alyssa and Angela were getting tired and cranky and it was cooling off a bit. I decided to head back to the hotel room with them. Right as we were playing on the playground equipment next to the pool area it started to sprinkle rain. It was just sprinkling, but we started walking back to our room along the riverway path. Back at the pool the kids were having so much fun that they didn’t care that it was raining. It was so fun walking back in the rain with Alyssa and Angela. We were soaking wet, it was raining pretty steadily and everyone around us was running around with umbrella’s and poncho’s on… they saw us there in our swimsuits and would grin really big and comment that it doesn’t matter if you get wet when you’ve been wet from swimming… Alyssa and Angela ran and jumped in puddles and we sang “singing in the rain” while we walked back to the room. In the room the a/c had been left on so it was freezing and we had to quickly bundle up and get out of the wet swimsuits, but it was definitly a memory to treasure and keep.
Rich was stuck at the pool with Alex and Ashley and they were having a grand ole time playing, until there was a big lightning strike… I was back in the room by then, but Rich said the lifeguards cleared the pool quickly and then they walked back to the room quickly.
After we all dried off, and warmed up we went over to Downtown Disney for dinner and some shopping. We have never ever taken the kids to a sit down restaurant. So we thought that they had been behaving so well that week that we would try it. Of course the Rainforest Café is not like a normal sit down restaurant and is very kid friendly so we thought it was the perfect place to try with the kids. We had fun walking around and looking at all the stuff in the store while we waited to be seated.
Once we sat down and ordered our drinks Alex turned to Rich and said… okay lets go get our food… he had no idea that you go to restaurants and stay in your seat and order one entrée and have them bring it to you. He looked at the menu and wanted the alfredo pasta, and the mac and cheese and the chicken tenders… we told him he had to choose just one and he wasn’t too happy about it at first, but then agreed to cooperate. We were seated right up next to the elephants so Angela loved everytime they would swing their trunks and flap their ears. We also were close enough to watch the gorillas in the other room and their movement. It was great.
After dinner we went shopping. We had told the kids that they each could choose something for a souvenier. It took a long time (at least an hour), but eventually the kids settled on their souveniers. Angela got a soft stuffed pooh bear; Alyssa got a tinkerbell doll with dress up clothes- similar to a polly pocket; Ashley got a cinderella wig and gloves and purse; and Alex built his own light sabre.
Then we had to go and get ice cream sundae’s at Ghiradelli’s Chocolate Shoppe. Rich always goes there on his buisness trips with his co-workers and he had promised the kids we would get them one night that week. They are delicious!! There really is nothing more to say than that… it’s a wonderful sundae whatever one you choose… The kids ones were even really big too!
Then we went back to the hotel and Alyssa and Angela fell asleep in the car. It was quick and easy to get them all asleep that night.
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