Orlando Vacation 2010

For the boys's Christmas presents, Kristen and I booked a trip to Orlando. We brought Mom and Dad along to enjoy a nice family vacation (and to have free babysitting :-)

Darren and Bryan played golf two days while the rest of us enjoyed the fabulous house we rented, equipped with heated pool!
Here's a link to the house. It was really great!
http://www.orlandovillahols.com/


We went to Animal Kingdom and really enjoyed it. We saw a lot of animals close up and the park wasn't horrifically crowded. The live Lion King show was really entertaining.




We also went went to the Magic Kingdom. That was really crowded. Anna and Maggie liked the little water parks the best and everyone really enjoyed the parade, but it was a LONG day. Luckily, the weather couldn't have been better that day, sunny and 75.




We had a great time hanging out with everyone and Maggie and Anna were so happy to have their grandparents there to play with (Grams and Grampa didn't mind either ;-)


The only disappointment was Anna's reaction to T-rex cafe. Anna is VERY in to dinosaurs, so we went to this great restaurant in Downtown Disney that has life size dinosaurs that come to life in a "meteor shower show" every 20 minutes. Anna was scared senseless. She cried the whole time. She's never had this sort of reaction before. The meal was fabulous, we just had to take turns playing with her in the "excavation site" ( a big sandbox full of fake dino bones to uncover) while everyone else ate.

Here's a picture of us going in, before the drama began...



Kristen has a lot more photos so if she updates her blog this year (seriously, it's been since December!) you can have a look there for more photos of this great family vacation.
http://lifewiththeburrells.blogspot.com/