Wednesday, February 28, 2024

February 18th (Ella's Birthday Presents)

After dinner we finally got to open Ella's presents.
Ella, Adelyn and I just chilled out all day. Still super tired from everything we did plus getting home late!

Excited to open her presents from us.


The new trolls, Branches brothers.
Mum and Dad from Bluey.

Squishmallow purse.

More cd's, she loves to listen to music. Also a Mixie I got super cheap, magical wand thing she does to get toy!
Happy to be home! One more day off school.

 

February 17th (Last Day in Florida-Rainy/Food Court Lunch/Gator/Shipley"s/Swan Lake/Going Home)

Unfortunately it was a rainy day here in Orlando.
And we had to be out of the townhouse at 10 am on the dot!
We would have gone to Universal but it was packed on a Saturday plus drizzling all day with no sunshine!
So we drove around trying to find something to do.
Then ate lunch again at the mall but it was SUPER crowded compared to Tuesday!
After lunch I wanted to see some Alligators but since it was raining we couldn't go on a swamp boat or an outdoor place with lots of gators.
So I found this Gator Golf place that we could at least see some Alligators without paying a crap ton of money!

We didn't play golf since it was mostly outside and raining and we could see most of the Alligators without paying any money so we just did that.
Baby Gators.

They were so cute. Lol. 

Then we drove around trying to find something else to do that was cheap, but everything in Orlando is like $35 per person. And after spending all that money at Universal we didn't want to spend more. We did see that they have a Shipley's donuts here, so we had to go get some! One of our favorites from Arkansas.



Look at this yummy donut! 
We ate at the shop which was nice to be out of the car.
Then I found a park not too far that you can go on Swan boats in a lake in the downtown area.
We got there and with the rain they don't have them open but they still had a bunch of real swans.
We parked and walked to the lake to see some wild life

Fun trees. Beautiful down here at the park.



They even have birds here I have never seen before.
There is a swan.


And a Palm Tree.

These Swan's are not scared of people, they come up really close.
Ahhh here they come to get the bread and crackers other people were throwing out.
Other white birds too.

Selfie with a Swan!
How many people can say they did that?? LOL.




Pretty Swan.

Black Swans.
Another type of bird.




Walking around the lake.
Another bird.

So we left from here and went to get gas. We got some drinks then headed to the airport. We should have ate before we got there because then we got to terminal and there wasn't much there to eat. We all got pizza, ate chips we brought along with some strawberries I had left from the trip. Ella had to take her meds as well, which sucks doing in an airport. Our plane got delayed because they waited for a plane of 10-15 people coming from Puerto Rico. Ugh ! They nice thing was the plane wasn't full, bad part was the delay and all the turbulence the whole trip!! I was a little nervous. We got to the airport around 10:30 KC time, but really 11:30 FL time. So we got our bags and made it to our car. Luckily we chose to pay extra for the parking garage. Then we got home around midnight KC time! Ugh we were all exhausted and needed sleep! Luckily it is Saturday so we can sleep in!