Florida Vacation 2011 Part 1

Florida in February...Heaven!! We left the cold,dreary weather of Spokane to head to Florida with the family. This is the first vacation where all of us flew on an airplane together. Actually this was all of the kids second time ever on an airplane. We left Spokane around 7:30am on Feb.18th and flew into Minneapolis. We had a 3 hour layover there and then flew into Orlando. We landed around 8:00 p.m. It was a long day but we were all excited so it didn't seem so bad. The first thing my kids talked about were how big the Orlando airport was and they saw palm trees for the first time (in the middle of the airport). We got our rental and headed to the house that would be our home for the week.

This house was great!! 5 minutes from all the parks. 4 bedrooms 3 baths and a heated pool!

Saturday, Feb. 19th Animal Kingdom
This was a great park to start our adventure. It was a lot of fun. Highlights from this park were the Mt. Everest ride and the Kilimanjaro safari.(pictures to come later)
Sunday, Feb.20th Church, Swamp boats and Coco Beach
We found a meeting to go to here and I can't even imagine how many visitors this ward gets each week but it is so nice that we can find the church on vacation. This building was so much bigger than ours. I still can't get over the stadium seating in the chapel!!
After church we wanted to have a low key day so we headed over to Coco beach. We stopped for an airboat ride and we actually saw a crocodile! We also saw a turtle which our guide told us "was good eatin'" Yuck!!!

The beach was so crowded and it seemed like it was spring break for all the college kids!! The groups were awful and the girls barely covered so we tried to make our way through (with the boys eyes covered) and found a quieter spot to enjoy the sand,sun and waves. The water was so much warmer than the west coast! We found a blue jellyfish and had fun taking beach pics.