Wrapping it all up

The last few days in Florida were spent by the pool, or at the beach. We drove to Cocoa Beach to spend Friday night. They were having an art festival in Melbourne so we stopped there for a little bit. Jaxon loves subway so we grabbed some sandwiches and just hung out watching the last beach sunset of our vacation.

Magic Kindom - All Done....

Spending five days at Disney World was exhausting! We had a blast, but were so tired and just wanted to get the day over with. We had lunch at Pooh's Corner. It was cute, and had all the Winnie the Pooh characters there. The Winnie the Pooh ride is my favorite ride at Disneyland, but the Magic Kingdom ride wasn't the same... boo hoo. Our family favorite was of course, Pirates of the Caribbean! We love Disney, but were glad to finally wrap things up with the fireworks and head home to bed!

Epcot

Epcot was one of Jaxons favorite. John really liked it too. I thought that it was more for the "older crowd" but it was still fun.

And more Epcot...

Disney World ~ Animal Kingdom

Disney Animal Kingdom is really fun. They have the big tree of life that is the center of the park, and it has all kinds of Disney Animal creations inside hidden places. The park breaks out into Camp Mickey, The Safari, Petting Zoo, & Africa. The Lion King show is a must see. We went on Earth Day so that was really fun because they just came out with the Disney Earth movie and everything was hyped about that. It was a very hot day, but so worth it. I liked the Safari, Jaxon loved the talking garbage, and John liked all of it. One of our Favorite days...
Jaxon had his face painted...it was so cute! He wanted an alligator (as we were in Florida!)
We saw some fun stuff on the Safari trip.

The Famous talking garbage ~ Promoting Earth Day

The tree of Life (wow, does that have a few meanings or what?)

Disney Hollywood Studios

The first day at Disney World was spent at Disney Hollywood Studios. Jaxon's favorite ride at Disneyworld/land is the Woody Ride

(and Buzz in Fantasyland).
John loved the Live action car scenes. I liked my FAVORITE bands...Rockin Roller Coaster by Aerosmith!! Yeah, it totally ROCKS!!! And then... We all crashed!

Clearwater Florida 09

We decided to head to the beach the first day we arrived. We had a five day pass to Disney World, but wanted to make sure that we saved time for Jaxon's favorite thing...the beach. We went to Clearwater Beach (which is West of Tampa). Clearwater is a really nice little beach town. The sand on that side of Florida is white and clean. There are shells that run up and down the beach everywhere which makes it fun, and makes you "feel" like you are really at the "beach" (aka..no garbage, sea weed, etc). Jaxon making a run for it!
Seriously this kid is a daredevil!

He loves to go way out deep and ride the waves.
Clearwater Beach...See how far out I am in the water...
Yeah, that is how far Jaxon had gone so I was "watching" him.
Lot's of pretty sea shells.

We all wanted to stay longer, but had to head back to the condo.

Start Spreading the News....Da da da da!

I had the wonderful opportunity to take Sara to NY. We both needed to get away and just cheer up. This was an awesome trip! I love you Sara!

NYC...