Spring Break 2010

We had no plans when spring break started. Our start to spring break was watching conference and Easter. After 2 days of basically being stuck in the house, I knew this would be the longest spring break ever since I didn't have any plans except for going to the Tennessee aquarium one of the days. Well, Sunday night after a long weekend of being at home. I started searching the web for deals in the Great Smokey Mountain area. I thought it would be fun to rent a cabin and just hang out and explore. I guess so did everyone else because all the good priced cabins were taken and there are a lot of cabins for good prices. I just couldn't make myself pay that much money for a cabin knowing they had much cheaper ones. Maybe one day when I am more on the ball I will book early to get a better price. So we checked out our stand by Orlando. Orlando has never let us down. We know there are always good prices to be found at a moments notice. I went to one of our favorite Orlando vacation villa sights and typed in our days we wanted to be there and just a few people responded back and we picked one and next thing you know we were driving to Orlando. We left on a Wed morning and arrived there just in time for dinner. The only sad thing is we knew we wouldn't be going to Disney on this trip. But, we did know that in a little over 2 months we would be at Disney for 2 weeks. Sea World had a special for Florida and Georgia residence. Buy a one day pass to Sea World and get a second pass free to either Aquatica (Sea World's new water park) or Busch Gardens. So that is what we did. On Thursday we went to Sea World. I like Sea World mainly because it is the next theme park second to Disney as far as family oriented. It was a fun day filled with sea show and rides.

Kennedy, Hayden, and Payton




Shamu show

Dolphin show

Shamu show

Shamu show

Payton, Hayden, and Talmage

Kennedy and Brenton

Talmage playing the drums

Kennedy and Payton

Payton and Kennedy

Hayden, Brenton, and Talmage

The next day, we went to Downtown Disney. The highlights there were the Lego store, the huge Disney store, the toy store, Mc D's, boat ride, and of course my favorite Ghirredelli sundaes.

Hayden with Indiana Jones made of Leggos

Hayden and Talmage

Hayden hiding behind a Bionicle made of Leggos

Hayden, I took many pictures trying to get him to look at the camera and smile but he was way to interested in Buzz's buttons

Brenton, Talmage, Connor, and Hayden on the boat we rented

Talmage and Jon

Kennedy and Payton

On Friday, we went to Busch Gardens. It is in Tampa which was a little less than an hour from Orlando. I have only been there one other time before with my parents Morgan and Taylor and Brenton was just barely one years old. The whole feel of this place was no Disney. The crowd was different. A lot more teenagers and couples without kids. And people just walking around in their bathing suits. A lot of the rides were either roller coaster thrill rides (which we went on a couple of the smaller ones) or either little kids rides that the parents couldn't go. There weren't very many rides that the whole family could go on at any age. That is why we like Disney so much. We still had fun and hey it was free.

Rhinos on the train ride around the wild animals

Giraffes

Hayden and Payton

Talmage and Kennedy

Connor

Talmage and Kennedy

I am glad they had the sky buckets that go way up in the air. I miss those at Magic Kingdom.

Payton and Kennedy

Hayden

It was a fun trip and a well deserved trip since we hadn't gone on a trip in over a year. Not counting the overnighter at Birmingham, Alabama to go to the temple. We also spent lots of time in the pool and enjoyed it very much since we hadn't been swimming in 7 months.

I can't wait till next time we come to Orlando and spend 2 weeks at Disney.