Florida FUN

Emmy, Bobby, Robb and I headed down for our annual week in Florida.  Grandma and Grandpa's new place is unbelievably fun.  There is a beach, club house and a great pool.  Emmy and Bobby have their own rooms too.  Emmy and Bobby were in the pool for hours every day we were there.

 
After spending a couple of days in Florida we headed to Orlando

 
In Orlando we headed to SeaWorld and even though the park was packed with people we were able to make some special memories together. 

We had arranged for a special meeting with the penguins where we learned all about them and then got to pet a couple of penguins too.  Bobby and Emmy loved this and it was pretty amazing.  Emmy's favorite thing we did was watch the Killer Whale show.  The whales splashed people and did some pretty neat tricks that the kids still talk about.  We also got to observe all kinds of different sea animals.

On our second day in Orlando we went to Disney Hollywood Studios.  We didn't get there last year and so we went to a lot of shows (including Frozen).  It was raining the entire day and so we bought to super expensive ponchos and kept right on going.  The kids both loved the ride where we got to try to shoot things in an arcade style game based on Toy Story.  It was a bit of a competition that Emmy/daddy like to remind Bobby/mommy that they beat us playing.  Next time - rematch!

On one of our last nights in Florida, Grandpa and Grandma took us out to eat.  We had an awesome meal and kids and grandpa kept busy making crafts out of these bendy sticks that the restaurant provided pre-meal.

Similar to last year we went to the outdoor park with the bounce houses and fountains.  The kids loved that place last year and once again it was a hit.  Emmy and Bobby play very nice together and they had a lot of fun running through the fountains.  No injuries were had on the giant inflatable slide which was a nice improvement from our experience at this park last year.

Emmy has some homework and luckily Grandma was around to help her work through her book.

Grandpa and Grandma had arranged for a babysitter and we got to spend New Year's Eve with them and their friends in downtown Naples.  It was a really fun time and we enjoyed ourselves.  They out-partied us though and Robb and I were in bed by 1.

We also took a trip to the Shell factory where the kids looked at animals, fed animals and took pictures posing.  Emmy was afraid of the meat eating dinosaurs and requested I get in the picture too.  I agreed to take the picture with her but suggested we show those dinos who was boss by flexing our muscles.  It was really cute to see the kids feed the birds and ducks.  They tried to feed the turtles and peacocks but those animals weren't as interested.  My kids are pretty brave that is for sure?  Bobby did his penguin song and dance for the parrot he met but changed the "penguin" to "parrot" in the song to accommodate his new friend.  Later on we finished the afternoon with ice cream (of course) like we did on many days there!