Katelyn has been on vacation a lot this year. She traveled to NC with my parents for a week and then to FL for a couple of weeks at a time. We hardly saw her. Grandma ended up buying her a “princess” suitcase on our latest vacation to Disney. Now she can begin traveling and rolling her own stuff through the airport…right? :-)
April 9 was a great day as Katelyn and I traveling to NYC to see the Ringling Brothers. I was able to entertain clients and their kids too, so it was a great opportunity for the both of us. She was very well behaved and had fun the entire day. It was a long day as we went to NYC and back in the same day. I also ended up getting off at Grand Central Station and walked to Penn Station. Anyone who ever goes to NYC, don’t do that, they are very far apart. Make sure you are getting off at the right station.
Another cool thing that I got to do was in May when we took an account out to the Tampa Bay Devil Ray’s game. One of the guys I use to work with now works for one of my accounts and he got to throw out the first pitch. It was awesome as his name was lit up on the board as well. It’s very cool to know someone who has thrown out the first pitch at a baseball game. I still think it is even cooler doing it. He is so lucky! He’s a great guy and deserves it.
In May we were able to finally take our Disney vacation we had been planning for over a year. We ended up having to switch resorts the first couple of days and the last day just because we ended up staying in Orlando for 10 days total and our resort switch was for only 7 days. It was great though and we all had fun. On the first Saturday we were there we ended up going to Blizzard Beach with one of my co-workers and her daughter. We had a great time and it was fun seeing Katelyn’s reaction to some things. She went down the double tube slide with Keith and I in a double ride and fell into a pool at the end. She had fun, but I had to try to keep her afloat too. All I can say now is that she is not so afraid to go under water now. My uncle ended up coming in/out on the weekends too for a visit. So it was a great family vacation!
On the Sunday after that we went to Animal Kingdom. Katelyn loved seeing the animals and we spent most of our time in Africa and ate lunch in Asia. Food was great at Disney. I was actually able to get mom on the Everest ride, which is a fast high speed train (really a roller coaster) She had so much fun, but she said that she was going to read the captions of the rides before she believes me again because she absolutely hates roller coasters. She said she didn’t see much as she closed her eye’s half way through the ride. It was still fun!
The next day we ended up going to Typhoon Lagoon. That is different than Blizzard Beach but had very similar rides. We liked Blizzard Beach better because Katelyn could do the rides more there than at Typhoon Lagoon. At Typhoon Lagoon though they have this wave pool that blasts out waves of 6-8 feet and then spreads it out over the water. You can even take surfing lessons there too for an extra fee. A buzzer goes off before the wave comes out and Katelyn picked up on that real fast as when the buzzer went off Katelyn ran to the end of the pool so the wave could not get her. After a while, she ended up loving the wave pool and wanted to go deeper. They also had a salt water lagoon there too where you can swim with fish and safe sharks. We didn’t end up doing that, but you are able to watch underneath from a sunken ship as others do it. It was fun and a great time was had by all there.
The next day after that we ended up going to Epcot. There wasn’t much for Katelyn to do there as all the rides are mainly for older people, but we did watch the 360 degree movies and did “The Bugs Life” attraction there that was a 3D movie (Maybe that was at Animal Kingdom, can’t remember!) Anyway, the Bug’s life movie ended up scaring Katelyn as it spits out water and bumps you in the back and butt and spits out air at you. She wasn’t impressed with that as she talked about that for many times on the trip. However, she absolutely loved the Mickey’s Magic 3D show at Magic Kingdom. We got stuck in the white ball for about 30 minutes in the dark at Epcot and Katelyn didn’t like that either.
We ended up needing a day off from the attractions so the next day we went shopping throughout the area. One other day we went to DisneyQuest too which is nothing but video games for everyone. Katelyn played her old standby game which is skeeball and I liked frogger. They also had a game called Astroblaster where you go into a pod and gather balls then shoot them at the other cars in pods like bumper cars. It was fun, just wish we could have taken Katelyn on that ride as she would have had a blast. She likes gun games… Is she a girl? Why yes, she is a “primper”.
We didn’t go to MGM Studios as we just couldn’t take another day of theme parks, but we saved the best park for last. Katelyn had such a blast at Magic Kingdom. I think we took 2 rolls of pictures there alone. She loves Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and the princesses, but if Goofy or Donald Duck or Bears come near her she is not interested. I guess she doesn’t like the tall and big characters. She even ran from Chip and Dale. There is one great picture that the Disney photographers took of her with Jasmine and I think I am going to get that one since none of our pictures came out as well as the Disney one’s. The rolls are developed now. If you would like to see them, just log in to walmart.com and type in my email address and then the password is password. Disney photo’s are available too for the next 30 days, so let me know if you would like to see what the photographers took there as well.
The next Saturday, my friend Melissa from Delta ended up coming in and we went to Blizzard Beach again. This time Katelyn ended up going down the Toboggan racers ride. She totally did not like it the first time and then she absolutely loved it and went down again. Later Keith and I actually did the longest drop off one. I think it is tagged at 7 stories. Which really is not much if you think about it considering I worked at that Bungee tower and we did that every day too!
On the 28th of May, it was our 6th Anniversary. We did go to Emeril’s and had a great time. Luckily they had a 3 course meal package that we could try everything and we ate like kings over lunch at Universal City Walk. The food is very delicious there and nobody left a scrap on their plate… except Katelyn! Later that night we went to Pleasure Island and Keith got to shake Dennis Rodman’s hand. I wish I had my camera with me because that would have been cool!
Hope everyone is doing well. Please keep in touch and let me know what you have been up to too if I haven’t talked to you in a while.
