Day 6 - 1900 Park Fare

On the 6th day of our Disney trip we took it easy during the day and then went to the Grand Floridian resort for dinner at 1900 Park Fare. The Grand Floridian is a gorgeous resort that modeled after the Victorian period. Everything about it is gorgeous (except how far away we had to park!). Out of all the character meals we attended, this one was the loudest and I thought the most hectic. Ava enjoyed it though and loved seeing Cinderella again and the stepsisters. The characters all stayed in character with the stepmother making snarky comments at Cinderella and the little girls dressed as Cinderella. The stepsisters did a lot of fighting and Cinderella and the Prince danced a few times. I got a kick out of the stepmother and the food was pretty good too.

Day 4 - Hollywood Studios -Part 2

Here are the rest of the pictures from Hollywood Studios on Day 4 of our vacation. Sorry I don't have a little types out narrative, but as tiredness from the trip set in I just couldn't keep up. Anyway, a quick update on the status of all of the sickies here is that everyone in this house has now been to the Dr. at least once in the past week. We are a bunch of recovering folks. At this point Bradley is still the puniest and when he goes to the Dr. you know it's bad!

Ava was hesitant about Frozone, but with a little urging she went to him.

Sulley was the sweetest monster. He just hugged all over Ava.

After we had to leave Playhouse Disney because Ava could not behave, she just had to have apicture with Jojo and the Lion.

With the Little Einstein's Rocket Ship.

The scariest character she met, Jafar from Aladdin.

Gov. Ratcliff from Pocahontas

Ava had the best time with Chip and Dale and they crawled around on the floor with her.

She begged to see Stitch again.

With Mr. and Mrs. Incredible

Outside the Chinese Theatre see threw a fit for me to take some pictures of her.

Standing on the prints from the Ruby Slippers/

At the beach

I am about halfway through with uploading all of our vacation photos onto my home computer. We have had a pretty rough weekend with all the sickness and ickiness that goes along with that. We have done lots of sleeping, coughing, catching up with TV we missed, and being moody. I am so ready for all this sickness to be over. I told Bradley last night that it feels like we will never all be well again. Ava's fever is better after being really high yesterday morning. so I am hoping she is on the road to recovery. I start back to school in the morning and have a pretty busy week ahead. Just keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Those of you who read the little Twitter updates at the top of the page were able to keep up with us while we were on our trip and you know that after we left Disney World we headed to the beach. We stayed at a little place outside of Tampa called Anna Maria Island. Regretfully we only got one day at the beach because that was when Ava got sick and we decided to head back. Ava was so excited to go to the beach and it was beautiful. Our resort had a private beach so it was not very crowded and was very clean and nice. At first Ava was just interested in the sand, but after Bradley got her used to the waves she loved putting her feet in. The only negative was that even though it was really hot outside, the water was still pretty cool. Lots of people were walking in just a little but not really swimming. It was gorgeous though and I am so glad that Ava got to experience the ocean. (or as Bradley says, "It's not the ocean, it's just the gulf!")

Here are some sunshiney pictures to brighten your day.

This first picture is not mine, but I wanted my mom to see the killer bridge we went over called the Sunshine Skyway. Scary!

Here's one of my pictures of it.

First time on the beach.

Heading back for snacks.

Ava Hollywood

Ava and Daddy