Vacation Re-cap Part 1

So, we began our journey on a good note, as I mentioned last week. I had one complaint, regarding the microwave problem, but we quickly moved past that after a good nights sleep.

Our first night was a little rocky because my daughter fell out of the bed in the middle of the night. In the dark we could not see what was clear to us the next morning. Her inconsolable crying was more reasonable than we thought in the night.

Although it is a little difficult to see in this picture, it will be quite clear as the week progresses. My daughter had a black eye. In the night, she hit the corner of the table next to the bed. We felt awful for trying to quiet her and not comfort her more than we did.

Our next adventure led us to Busch Gardens in Tampa, Fl. If you didn't read my post regarding our bird adventure, you can see why we do not feed the birds here. Our visit to Busch Gardens was great!! We enjoyed it thoroughly. The kids always love to see the Flamingos and luckily that Ibis didn't ruin it for them!! Actually, this morning JB was telling us the story of the bird taking his lunch and he was laughing. Maybe he is recovering from the trauma!! YEAH.

We followed that by watching a play in the Land of the Dragons. The kids loved it. Well, HC did - she was thrilled to take a picture with a "real life princess". My view is HC was the prettier princess!

We followed up with several rides within the Land of the Dragons. There were tons of things to do!! All the rides were specifically for the wee ones. No big kids. They had net bridges and towers and rides and a jumper, a sand box, a little water splash area and a cool tree house. I didn't want to bore you with ALL the pics! The kids were worn out and thrilled with this 'Game Park' as HC called it.

Our last adventure at Busch Gardens was a caricature of the kids. How do you think they look? I have to remind myself that it is an exaggerated drawing when I look at JB's. She was also kind enough to NOT draw in the black eye of HC.