4th of July Getaway

We decided to skip town for the 4th, and headed up to Orlando. We went to this really cool park called Gatorland. There were a ton of Alligators and Crocodiles there. More then we have ever seen at one park.

Just one of the huge alligators we saw.

Always on the go

Trying to feed the birds. They were not hungry at all! The all just hung out at the top of the cage, but every once in a while they would dive bomb right in front of you.

Lily watching the birds

I really like the smaller parks. We were able to see everything at the park in a few hours. We would have been there longer if it didn't start pouring rain! There was a water park for kids to play with and right as we headed over there it started raining and they shut it down. Eric was very upset until we told him we were going to go to a safari hotel.


The great things about hotels...you get to jump on the bed without getting into trouble and there are some cool hiding places. The hotel also had this really big water slide. I wish we had our camera when Eric came off that slide. We heard him yelling for us long before we saw him. The look on his face was pure terror until he saw us at the bottom then he smiled. He went on it 2 more times no problem and then he went down with Skip and he screamed the whole way. (Kinda like the kid on the Christmas story at the mall with Santa..) We had a lot of fun hanging out at the pool together.

And of course luck would have it...we were at the wrong place at the wrong time and missed the fireworks. Yeah lame...

Yesterday morning we went over to Downtown Disney to get some breakfast and hang out.

The kids road the Merry-Go-Round. Eric loves it! But Lily not-so-much.

Kids both loved the train ride




We went up in a hot air balloon too! It was really awesome. First time for all of us. It was amazing how much you can see at 400 feet up.

Next time we want to go up at night.

It was a really fun little trip. Hopefully we will get to head back up to Orlando for another fun day soon!