April 14-21
Villa Balmoral
Orlando, Florida
Remember back at Christmas when Santa gave our kids a trip to the Magical Wizarding World of Harry Potter? Well that day finally came, after months of waiting and waiting and anticipating the adventure, it came!!!
We had a blast at Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, Clearwater Beach, Gatorland, The Florida Aquarium, and the Villa. (The house where we stayed.) We met Jen and Brandon's Family there and Melanie flew out to party with us for a couple of days too. We had such a great time hanging out with those guys!
I have so many pictures of this trip, I felt like it would be less overwhelming to divide it into a few a different posts. So this post will be the introductory post:
We had a layover in Houston (that became 4 hours instead of 2.5) and they had a cool Children's Art Gallery there that we spent some time looking at. The art was all done by children who were in the hospital with cancer. They had postcards available that you could write a note to the child whose piece you loved the most, so we wrote some notes to those kids which I felt was a pretty awesome way to spend time during a layover. But we sure were ready to get on with the adventure after that long layover!
Finally we got to the house where we were staying! It was a 5 bed/4 bath home with a pool and a fun game room.
I have so many pictures of this trip, I felt like it would be less overwhelming to divide it into a few a different posts. So this post will be the introductory post:
We got up early to catch our flight Monday morning.
This is what it looks like when a family of 8 is checking in:
Bennett and Sydney's first time on an airplane.
They were champs.
Finally we got to the house where we were staying! It was a 5 bed/4 bath home with a pool and a fun game room.
First order of business was to put all our clothes in the dryer since our luggage got completely soaked in a downpour at the Houston Airport. I guess those tarps they had to cover the luggage were just for decoration. While we were drying our clothes, we had a super late dinner and the kids swam because even if it's 10 o'clock at night, if there's a pool to be in after you've been traveling all day, you just have to swim. The kids swam almost every day, and just LOVED it!
There was air hockey, a pool table and a basketball game in the game room.
Movie night in the girls room.
The kids did way better staying awake during their movie than the adults did for ours. I was so tired I slept through most of ours!
5 comments:
What a fun trip!! (And what a cool thing to do during the layover.) Just think, what would you do if you hadn't had a house with a dryer? Sounds like the perfect place to stay during your awesome trip!
It all looks so fun! Wish we could have gone!
That house is so cute! The decor is adorable. Glad you guys had a pool too! It is so nice you all got to have this wonderful family trip. I love that you guys wrote post cards for the kids in the hospital.
I have been watching for these posts! What a fun trip!
That house was a great find! What a fun trip!
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