Johnson Smiles

We woke up on Wednesday morning ready to go.  By now we had settled into a morning grove mostly attributed to figuring out the automatic start on the coffee maker.  Nothing gets me out of bed faster than my nose alerting me that my coffee is ready and waiting for me.  Our hotel was literally around the corner from Animal Kingdom so we had a little more time than usual to get ready....picture a lot of jumping around, growling, and goofy renditions of hakuna matata, and that pretty much sums up our predawn hotel room.  We left shortly before 7, took our place as first ones behind the rope and got comfy for our 45 minute wait to be let in.  We were having fun taking pictures of the scenery outside the park gates.  Sylvie spotted a number 2 so we trotted over there to get a picture with that too. As a side note, Luke and I had discussed what ages we should take the kids to Disney, and originally decided we were going to wait until Sylvie was older.  ...

Ok, so back to the Disney recap...I figured you guys needed a little break after the last novel of a post.  Plus there has been a garage sale that's been taking over my life for the past week or so.  But, without further ado I take you to the Sea. We knew Magic Kingdom would include staying up late for the nighttime festivities so we planned the next day as our "rest" day and planned to drive to the beach.  I was the first one to roll out of bed at 8am and I was able to sneak out to the balcony for a cup of coffee before the kids got up!  Those of you with kids know this is the equivalent of sleeping well in to the afternoon, and almost unheard of.  I even felt a little guilty for wasting so much of the day away!!  We woke up slowly drinking coffee, watching cartoons, and inventorying our growing pressed penny collection.  We finally got moving forward around 11 and headed to Clearwater beach.  It was about a 2 hour drive from our hotel, but we ...