The Beach

We were able to stay at Dr. Paris' wonderful condo in St. Augustine FL for a few days which was lovely since it was within walking distance to the beach!  It turned out being perfect because Miles caught a case of Roseola (probably at Disneyworld) and was not feeling so great while we were there.     We were able to let him nap in the condo while everyone else played and then switched off with him. Poor guy.

We arrived at the beach in the afternoon and the girls were walking along.... until they could see the beach.  I think these pictures show how excited they were.

That first evening at the beach, only the girls and Mike had their swim suits on and we just walked the beach, looking for shells and playing in the sand.  Much fun was had by all - the girls did not want to leave.  We finally convinced them we would be back first thing in the morning, and we were. Allie said, while playing on the beach, that this was better than Disneyworld.  Good to know, since it is a whole lot cheaper!  

I was so glad that we had Mike's family there with us - I wasn't keeping track of 3 kids by myself.  

We mostly had the beach to ourselves, not very many people by us most of the time which was really nice.  The walk way from the condo property to the beach was far from the public access.

We stayed on the beach until the sun went down, so of course we had to get a cool sunset photo!

This is Allie channeling her Karate Kid.

Hadley did more of a dance.

Mike found a little crab - and now Allie is afraid of crabs and has bad dreams of crabs.  Not the baby shark that we pet while on the pier or the dolphin we saw swimming near the beach.  No... just the little tiny crab.  Whatever.

This was our little turtle friend that lived by the bridge on the way to the beach.  

The girls could have done this for hours - not so much for Mike and Grandpa

 This is a family tradition - with many more feet now from where we started.

The sand was so soft and white - it squeaked when you walked on it.  

 Just a little sand-wedgie 

Day 2 started off just like the first - running to the beach and lots of swimming and building sand castles with Grandma, Grandpa and Melanie.    I took the camera back to the condo for safety so I don't have many more pictures of the other days, but let be honest... there are quite a few already.  

Miles made it back out to play in the wade pool which was warmer and shallow.  He enjoyed it once his fever left. 

Disneyworld... the extended version.

-Written by Allie and Hadley-

A:  This is a picture of Allie while she was waiting her turn to go see Anna and Elsa.  But she didn't get to so she waited and waited (a 300 minute wait being one of the first ones in the park).  We decided to go ride other rides instead of waiting all day to see Elsa.

H:  We were waiting to see daisy and we got to.  Daisy was pretty.

 A:  We were waiting to see Minnie and we got a turn.
So that was exciting for me and she was pretty pink.

H:We went to see Goofy who was in the same room as minnie and daisy.  

(the wait for all of them was less than 20 min.  Much better than Elsa.  We decided maybe everyone else was waiting for them instead of the rest of the park.)

A: We went to see Donald Duck.  Donald Duck's snake was really awesome.  Donald made Miles laugh and it was so funny to me.  I loved that. I loved seeing Donald Duck.

H:  We waited and waited for our turn.   The roller coaster was fun, I liked it.  I liked it a lot a lot A LOT!  (barnstormer roller coaster - the only one she was tall enough to ride on).

A: This was a really fun ride because I got to drive the car and I was so excited.  That was my best day ever at Disney World.  I got to turn and drive until I got to the finish line.

Mom:  Miles was too small to ride on the car ride so he got to hang out with Mom first, then we ride swapped and I got to go with Allie.

H:  Being with Belle and I was the horse and everyone made the clip clop sound.  They gave me a book mark at the end.  It was fun.

A:  I shivered the best shivering ever.  I shivered as good as I could shiver.  I shivered and shivered and shivered.  I was still shivering.  I was scared when belle touched me.  

A&H:  Daddy was a handsome knight.  He had a big red feather.  He was a really good knight.

A:  I loved Ariel's fin, it was so flippy flippy flippy.  It flipped so much I thought she was a really good mermaid.  I loved her wig and flower and her pretty shells too.

H:  We met Cinderella and saw her shoes.  They were not glass slippers, they were strappy shoes.

We loved Cinderella

A:  Rapunzel was a great hider and also her friend the camillion.  I loved her pretty dress, and her long hair of course.

H:  I had tinkerbell on my shirt and she loved tinker belle on my shirt.  We saw her while Allie was on a big ride.  She did not fly, but had pretty dust.

Mom:  To end the first day, we watched the electric parade and then the fireworks show and the show projected onto the castle which was awesome!  Hadley fell asleep first before the parade, followed by Allie on the way out and Miles once we got onto the bus to go back to the Hotel - the All-Star resort on Disney property.  Everyone was pooped and slept pretty well that night.

Day 2

Mom:  Everyone was a little bit tired the next morning, so we decided not to get there and hour early to wait in line and see Elsa - figured it would just be the same.  We got there right at opening time and  took our time getting through the park this time.

A:  We roared so loud, Mickey got scared.  Mickey was so awesome because he could talk with us.

Mom:  There was not a wait for Mickey, so he took his time with us and loved  playing with Miles who loved him back.

A:  Mary Poppins was super white and I even loved her.  I loved the pretty jewel, it was so awesome. H:  She just talked to us and we got her autograph.

Mom:  We decided to try and hit the new Fantasyland parade so we could "see" Anna and Elsa and call it good instead of waiting for 5 hours.  We had front row seats, which happened to be in the super hot sun and we got a bit sweaty, even with some ice cream to cool us down.  But hey, we saw Anna and Elsa!

Mom:  We decided to leave around 6 to go get the cars and have some dinner.  We were all exhausted, but had SO MUCH FUN!  The girls still ask to go to Disney all the time!