The Sunshine State

Last Friday Chris and I ventured out on our first vacation away from our kids! My brother and his wife Amanda planned it about 2 weeks ago, so I didn't have much time to worry about it which was a good thing:) We went to Orlando, but didn't take in one tourist sight the entire time! The vacation consisted of the following: laying out by the pool, cribbage, shuffle board, laying out by the pool, getting $100 for listening to a time share presentation, free throw shooting contests, water volleyball, applying sunscreen, laying out by the pool, laughing, tennis on hard courts and clay courts, checkers, reading, eating sushi and laying out by the pool some more! (Oh....there were a few adult beverages in there too:)

We had a rough time getting there on Friday. There were severe storms in Orlando when we were going to land, so we circled for awhile and then decided we didn't have enough fuel to keep circling, so we flew into Jacksonville and sat on the plane for awhile until the weather cleared and we fueled up. When we finally arrived in Orlando, we had been on the plane for 6 hours! We got one drink and one bag of pretzels the entire time, so you can imagine the mood of the passengers at the end of that flight. The flight home went much smoother. We arrived back in Minneapolis 30 minutes ahead of schedule so that sort of made up for it!

Our kids did fine without us. They were happy to see us, but within 15 minutes of leaving to go back to Dubuque, Max said he wanted to go back....ouch:) It's back to normal already this morning! Here are a few pictures from the trip.




This is what your back looks like when you get pegged with an overhead:)