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Florida with Awesome Kids

This is WAAAAAAAY late in posting.  But, I wanted to share some photos from my Florida trip.  My daughter was working for JetBlue, but found that it wasn't for her.  So before she left her job, she was trying to get another trip in to take her kids on.  I kind of invited myself - which helped out, because going with three and one of them not being able to ride some of the rides was going to dampen the fun.  Daddy wasn't able to take time off work.  We had the greatest time and I enjoyed myself so much.  We flew out on the red-eye to Orlando (we still don't know how we got on this plane, we really shouldn't have) on June 22 and came home from Tampa, Florida through New York on June 25.  Quick and amazing trip.

Zach "surfing" at Islands of Adventure

Chelsea "surfing"






Riding on a Pterodactl.  Had to get this as fast as I could as
they went speeding by

Mama and daughter - with an added boy photobomb!

On the tram - going to Magic Kingdom!!!


Princess Leia

Got to get one in front of the castle!!



Let me take you on a magic carpet ride

It was so hot and so humid this day.  All the sudden, at the same time
Crystal and I realized that we HAD to get water into them and into us.
We had one small bottle of water that we shared and Crystal went to get
us some water.  In the meantime, the kids and I stood in line to get ice cream.
Rest break and then on our way!!!

Our awesome rental car.  This was a quick stop at the
Awful Waffle House and heading to Clearwater to the aquarium.
The Clearwater Aquarium is the center of the Dolphin Tale movies
about Winter the Dolphin - who lost her tail after getting hit
by a boat.

Nicholas the dolphin.  If you look, you can see his back is
all scarred.  He got horribly sunburned as a baby when he and
his mother beached.  Mama could not be saved, but Nicholas
has lived at the aquarium all his life.

Watching Nicholas



Clearwater Beach - it's an amazing beach

We had to do a fast trip to the beach for Chelsea to get a bag
of sand.  The best part was getting secondary searched because
I was carrying this bag of lovely white powdery sand!!
They didn't bat an eye though - must happen a lot

I haven't been on a plane since this trip.  I have become accustomed to getting on a plane at least once a month.  I really NEED to get on a plane.
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