Kyle had work on Monday so I took the kids to WF for our last brekkie in West Palm. Well actually I got breakfast for me. The kids had odds and ends to finish off. I planned their food out pretty perfectly. I’m VERY anti food waste and don’t throw nary a scrap out. It’s an obsession slash illness, but sometimes it works out for the best when you have no meal planned (and are cheap!) but you do have a dozen little containers with 3 bites of pancakes, or french toast, or yogurt left in each. I brought my eats back to the hotel because I had made coffee back in the room.
I was really missing nut butters so I got some from the fresh grinder, which I added to a vegan scone.
Right after, we went to a park because I was trying to tire them out excessively so they would nap earlier than usual because we had to check out of the hotel by 1 pm (and obviously I wanted them to nap!).
While they “slept” I packed up everything and loaded up the luggage cart so I would be able to wait until the very last second to wake them up. At 12:50 V woke up and then I kinda made a bunch of noise with her so P could “wake” up on his own. He is like his mama in that he is a sleep diva and DOES NOT like to be woken up.
Since I was kinda running around packing the whole time I hadn’t eaten yet, so after checking out I drove to WF for hummus and then ate that with Kyle’s veggie burger leftovers. WHAT A STELLAR SANDO! I am way into hummus at the moment, so I basically ate the whole tub of it with the sandwich.
Kyle still wasn’t done with his work call, so I decided to go back to the Turtle Rescue from the day before. P had been talking about it nonstop and how he wanted to come back to Florida so we could go there so I decided why not!?
Plus V had hardly gotten any time there the day before!
We were only there about 10 minutes when Kyle texted and said he was done with work and could I come pick him up (his work colleagues had left the day before and I had the car so he was dependent on me for a ride) so they each got to do “one more thing” and then we headed off to grab Kyle.
Then it was time to ROAD TRIP!
Due to the aforementioned drama, we were no longer flying out of Fort Lauderdale…instead we were going to Orlando! The kids weren’t thrilled about the long car ride, but V fell asleep for most of it. And P was finally starting to get a big healthier, so the promise of a Mickey Mouse hotel was the perfect light at the end of the tunnel. The toll road situation on that stretch of Florida’s coast is super annoying. A little warning would have been nice! What a miracle that I had so much change in my wallet.
We picked up some sushi to go just before entering Disneymania. I think Disney must own half of Orlando! Wow.
The hotel was amazing. I was sad that we were only going to be there 10 hours because it was SUPER family friendly and obviously very kid focused. What a treat! For such an unexpected hiccup in our adventure, it certainly worked out well.
We had a suite so there was one room with another TV area, two full (large) bathrooms, and a kitchen with a fridge and microwave. And this was the “budget” hotel! Disney knows what they are doing. Because there were two bathrooms, we put V in one so as to separate the two coughing people.
I fed the kids, while Kyle unpacked and set up the pack n play (the hotel provided). Then Kyle showered with them (to help with congestion) and we read some books (they were still way into the same 5!). And they were off to bed! We enjoyed our sushi with the college football game until the fireworks went off and freaked P out. I snuggled with him for a bit until he was good to go and warned him that they may go off again and promised I’d come back if/when they did. They did go off one more time and we laid in bed together, but after that he was fine. Here I was thinking we would come to Disney for every vacation from now on….hmmmm…
