Phyllis guessed correctly - we went to Florida! We visited my mother in Orlando (the kids call her "Tutu," which is the Hawaiian name for grandmother) and my sister in Orange City. Then we visted Miss Roxie in Hobe Sound. Along the way, we did some tourist things, too. But we didn't do Disney World or Sea World or Universal Studios. Standing in 45-minute lines in Florida's heat isn't our idea of fun.
Miss M was excited and the first one ready to leave. She packed her own suitcase all by herself the night before we left (Mommy had to re-pack it after she went to bed to make sure she brought enough clothes and not just toys!)
Miss M was our first travel casualty. She tripped on the sidewalk at a rest stop in South Carolina and skinned one leg and foot.
The very next photo on the roll, coincidentally, was this. Tim was snapping photos of the roadside scenery, and this street sign he photographed by accident nicely sums up Miss M's injury.
We stopped for just a few minutes at the beach near Hilton Head; it was too cool and windy to stay longer than that. There was a storm on the way. We didn't know it, but that storm meant that it rained every single day of our vacation until the day we planned to leave!
We spent an afternoon browsing the Florida Mall in Orlando. Who ever guessed that such a place as M&M's World existed??
Yes, M&M's World! M&M's in every color of the rainbow, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut, almond, mint, vanilla, peanut butter - a chocolate lover's paradise!
No coconut flavored M&M's, though. Then it would truly have been paradise. :)
L. finally replaced his baseball cap, which had been falling apart. He needed to have his wardrobe in tip-top shape for the Red Sox game in Tampa during our week there.
And we checked into our hotel. Our non-smoking room smelled like cigarette smoke and had roaches, but we stayed because our room had a loft, which was fun for the boys, with its own half-bath. Two bathrooms and room to sleep six (one on the floor of the loft) for the price of one room was too hard to pass up, even with the defects. And we loved the courtyard with this very nice fountain.
I'll post the rest in another post or two.
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