Florida July 17th-21st

So we decided to take a vacation to Orlando, Florida just with Irelynd to Disney World. We left Kynlee at home with my mom and Jared's mom and dad for almost a week. I must say it was nice to not have the responsibility of two children for a few days. But it didn't take long before all Jared, Irelynd, and I could talk about was how much we missed Kynlee. I talked to her one night on the phone and Jared's mom said she was kissing the phone. Now that broke my heart and I was ready to come home. We decided not to take her because it was really hot and muggy and we knew she would be miserable, whinny and she probably wouldn't remember it anyway. It was a lot of fun, and I'm sure Irelynd would agree,it was nice to just focus on Irelynd for a few days.
The day we got there it was raining of course and very muggy! We took a bus to our hotel, threw our luggage on the beds and went to Sea World. Wow!! I loved this. I highly suggest if you haven't taken your kids or been there yourselves you need to go. Especially if you are an animal lover. I was so shocked to see the relationship between the killer whales and the trainers. I was sitting in the stadium watching their show called "Believe" and it was like dejavou?? (I don't know how to spell that word) It took me back to when I went to the California Sea World in middle school on a Va-Dels dance trip. I remembered how I felt then and how I had made a promise to myself that someday I was going to be one of those trainers and swim with the whales or dolphins. Well, in the mix of everything I must have somehow forgotten about that goal. But I loved every moment that I sat in those stadiums and watched those amazing animals!! Irelynd and Jared loved it too, I think- but probably not as much as me. Irelynd says she loved watching the pirate show which was a show with huge sea lions and they made fun of all of the other shows in Sea World. Jared says he liked touching the sting rays and watching the sharks. We didn't have time to feed the dolphins, but next time we will be sure to do that first.
The second day we visited Down Town Disney and then Typhoon Lagoon. We walked around down town disney and saw a bunch of Lego characters and princess's. I don't know what I did to my little girl, but she does not want anything to do with Princess's. She's so funny, we told her she could pick out two things to take home and she chose Hannah Montana sunglasses and a Mickey Mouse pen. My favorite thing there was the huge squirrel and miniature pelicans or something that came right up to us to feed them. It was so fun! Typhoon Lagoon is a huge water park inside Disney World. It was again a lot of fun. Jared hated the fact that his daughter wasn't brave enough to go down the big slides on her own, so he didn't get to have as much fun as he would have liked. I had to keep reminding him that she is only 5 years old and a girl at that. He had to keep reminding her of all of the kids back home her age who would definately dare go down all the slides by themselves, but this tactic didn't work. So we spent most of our time on the family raft ride, in the lazy river, in the kid area, and in the huge wave pool! That was me and Jared's favorite! Those waves were huge, it was like being in the ocean, but with no sharks of course. (I'm terrified of sharks thanks to the TV) About 3:00 it started down pouring and they shut all the slides down. We all stood under the nearest shelter for about an hour and then waited for our taxi back to the hotel.
The next two days Jared and Irelynd went to Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom. I know this is long, but to make a long story short they both said they had a ton of fun at both of these places. I wish I wouldn't have missed out on Animal Kingdom. (I must have a thing for animals.) The pictures they took in their safari ride were amazing. Jared said it was like riding in a jeep in the jungle with all kinds of wild animals all around.
Irelynd hated the flight home because she kept saying her ears hurt. So at 11:30 at night she was bawling on the airplane while everyone else was trying to sleep. She was exhausted and very whiny I'm sure because of that to. She said, "I hate this air plane! I'm never flying again, next time we are driving!" Well I guess we won't be going back to Florida anytime soon. So after all of this fun, we finally got home to see Kynlee and then that same day Irelynd somehow managed to get bored and told Jared and I that we are sooo boring and we never do anything with her! Wow kids are unreal!! Anyway that was our trip. I will post a slide show of all of the pictures tomorrow.