FLORIDA!!!!!

These pictures are all out of order, but if have been on here in draft form forever.  I'm afraid they'll never be posted if I wait to do it right.  We went in January 2016 to Florida for my cousin's wedding reception.  We had planned on making a trip of it, and on a whim decided about a week in advance to add a day at Disney to the trip.  What an exhausting but fun time!!! We didn't tell the kids.  On the way we just said, "Hey, there's a sign for Disney.  Anybody want to go there?"  and we went.  We spent the first afternoon at the pool and downtown Disney.  Ellie was brave enough to dance on stage with the Celtic dancers!  We were all shocked!  The next day we spent in the park from open to close.  The kids absolutely loved it.  John, Eve, and Ellie were roller coaster junkies and loved every ride.  Mom, Buck, and I rotated who would ride the rides with them (and Jake if he was big enough), and who stayed with Will (and Jake if he wasn't big enough).  Will enjoyed the rides he could do, but just didn't understand the standing in line thing.  At any rate, that worked out well for everyone and we all had an exhausting but wonderful day!  It was so fun for me to go back to Small World (having heard the jokes from Mom and Dad about having to take me on it over and over and...) with Mom, Jake, and Will, and see how much they enjoyed it, and how much she enjoyed them enjoying it, and also the Electric Parade, my other big memory from Disney.  I never really thought I'd get to relive those memories with her and see our kids enjoy it at the same time.  That night after the fireworks we headed on to St. Pete.  While we were there we got to enjoy some great family time, and also got to see Winter the dolphin.  This was a huge dream of Eve's especially.  Winter has a prosthetic tail.  It was cool to see the other animals rehabilitating as well.  And to do that with so many cousins was a particularly special treat.  It was certainly a trip for the memory books!