Spring Break ~ March 208

John, Mashall & Mallory meet up with "Chip"!

A trip to WDW isn't complete in our family without a visit to "Chef Mickey's"!

Here is an updated photo of the new construction at The Contemporary"that is replacing the east garden wing. There is still no confirmation of its true plan. We rode in the front of the monrail at one point on the trip and the pilot told us that she tells everyone it's gong to be a Super Wal-Mart!

While visiting "Storytime with Belle", Mallory couldn't resist getting her picture with Belle. We had to practically drag Marshall into storytime because he was once selected to be Gaston and was mortified by the whole experience! We told him he'd be fine and wouldn't you know, they tried to drag him on stage AGAIN!! He was not happy, but we "got him out of it"!!

Our trip started our rough, waking up to 17" of snow in Dayton, OH. We checked into the airport at 10 a.m. with our flight still "on time" for 12:00 p.m.. Yeah, right! Fifteen minutes before the flight we get the word that we are CANCELLED!! I RAN down to the desk to start the rebooking process. We were in a pickle because the hotel was already booked solid, so it was get out of the airport that day or sleep there that night. Because we were starting out in Orlando, but had booked round trip into Tampa, that broadened our options. We finally got a flight booked out at around 7 p.m. to Atlanta to connect to Orlando.

Long day in the airport, but we finally got out at about 8 p.m. Our connection in Atlanta was delayed (heck yeah, the storm was heading east and our plane was out east!). However at 2:45 a.m. we left Atlanta and touched down in Orlando at 4:30 a.m. We skipped the grocery run and went straight to the BWV, checked in and went to bed at 6 a.m.

Mallory's "sweet voice" woke me up at noon saying "Mommy, the pool is open!" So, we got up and did some pool time. We took a little spin to the MK before taking M&M to the Sandcastle Club while Mark, John and I had dinner at LeCellier...my favorite! Not to be disappointed! I took M&M back to Epcot after dinner for Illuminations. Mallory didn't want to stay and even announced to us that "surely this is on You Tube!!"

On Monday we spent time at MGM, on Tuesday we went to Animal Kingdom and back to MK.

On Wed. we checked out and headed down to Sarasota. John, Marshall and Mallory went to the beach while Mark and I met some of our "Reds Friends" at the Daquari Deck on Siesta Key.

Thursday we went to the beach in the morning. Mark got us a couple of lounge chairs and we had such a nice time napping on the beach while the kids played. That night we went to see the Reds and Phillies. On Friday we saw the Reds and Yankees in the afternoon, then hung out at the pool in the evening.

Sat. we flew back home to discover every bit of the snow was gone! Unbelievable!