Yearly Archives: 2007

Trip Report Catch Up

Day Four – Shopping Expedition to Florida Mall – mission accomplished :)  Santa can relax now.

Day Five – Magic Kingdom

mgking_5.jpg

Not too busy – Theo & I still love the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (not too scarey)

mgking_1.jpg 

I forgot how scarey Space Mountain is (last time I rode it was 20 yrs ago) and won’t be going again in a hurry. It’s amazing what you can achieve with an ice cream – I love all the cute hats and I managed to capture some shots while Ethan & Theo were pre occupied :)

mgking_3.jpg  

mgking_4.jpg 

Nothing like a parade to give a new lens a good workout.

mgking_2.jpg

Day Six – Boggy Creek  

The airboat ride was pretty cool but bit of a let down on the wildlife front as we only saw one baby aligator and one bald eagle   

boggy_1.jpg

We spent the afternoon at the villa with the boys in the either in the pool or games room.  

villa_1.jpg

The villa backs onto the 10th hole of Highlands Golf Course – Brian played here in February – he took the boys for the look round before dinner. 

villa.jpg 

Day Seven – Epcot (well almost) - Ethan had been ill the night before and he only lasted 20 mins at the park, so we came back to the villa to let him him rest.

View full post »

Merry Christmas

_mg_3393.jpg

Woke at 8am to a glorious sunny Christmas morning – boys had waited patiently for half an hour or so. They went to bed fairly early after tracking Santa on NORAD and when SC hit the Florida coastline around 10pm they couldn’t get up the stairs quick enough.

_mg_3334.jpg

Ethan’s not often lost for words but he was stunned when he opened his mobile phone ! !

_mg_3381.jpg

Theo was a little subdued opening his pressies because he wasn’t feeling too good (which unfortunately got much worse throughout the day – poor baby was so ill) but he did manage a smile or two opening his presents.

_mg_3373.jpg

I spent some time in the sun looking at the images from the last few days (ended up a little pink), then we had a B-B-Q by the pool, couple of glasses in the hot tub and a nice leisurely swim – this is certainly the life !

_mg_3412.jpg

Need to catch up on my trip report.

View full post »

Florida Day Two & Three

Severe temperature drop Monday and Tuesday – needed jeans & fleeces but still bright sunshine.

 
_mg_2452.jpg

Day Two – Islands of Adventure – took our time getting up and out to Universal Studios.  Top of the agenda was Revenge of the Mummy (gave Ethan nightmares three years ago).  Theo and I were being brave and joined the queue but were having second thoughts when it had technical difficulties – ride wasn’t too terrifying afterall but neither Theo or me wanted to go again :D

_mg_2505.jpg

_mg_2474.jpg 

None of the photos have been edited and they look a little flat of my screen for some reason and I don’t have photoshop on the Mac Book. 

We’ve had a couple of serious shopping sprees in Walmart and Target and picked up some bargains.

Day Three – On the way to downtown Orlando Brian got pulled over my a trooper on a bike for doing 75mph on I4. He took Brian’s licence and looked to be writing him a ticket but let him off saying 20mph over speed limit is $200 fine – not usually lucky so this put a positive spin on the day. This continued as I treated myself in AC Moore and pro camera shop. Not quite so good as Santa’s helpers but we think we have a lead to try in Florida Mall. Three boys have gone off to play crazy golf while I chill at the villa.

View full post »

P H O T O G R A P H Y   W O R K S H O P S