Florida Vacation - Day 5

Gatorland - Orlando, FL

March 4

This was the entrance to Gatorland! We had a great time there! There are around 1700 alligators at Gatorland! Below are just a few!

These birds are everywhere! They try to steal the food that people are feeding the alligators...hot dogs! They are rather mean! LOL

The pictures below show the kids feeding birds...this was a fun room! You walk in, buy a food stick for a buck and suddenly have 5-7 new best friends!

Alligator "wrastlin'"!

Train ride right before we left!

We also found an orange grove...and picked a few over-ripe oranges and grapefruits!

This was a GIGANTIC (obviously) vehicle! We chose not to take the ride, but grabbed a pic!

Florida Vacation Day 6

Disney's Animal Kingdom - Monday, March 5

I finally remembered to take a picture of the sign going into the parks!

These two pics were taken right before we rode our first ride in Animal Kingdom. This on was called Primeval Whirl and was located in DinoLand. It looked a lot worse than it was! We rode again later in the day before we left!

Cute hat we found....$50.00. No thanks!

See the mountain in the background. That is "Mount Everest". The ride is called Expedition Everest....we fondly refer to it as the Yeti ride. We had to talk Tanner into going...and I was terrified...but it turned out to be our favorite ride...maybe of all the parks!

Here it is zoomed in!

Florida Vacation Day 7 and 8

Day Seven - forgot camera! UGH! We spent a second day at Magic Kingdom!

Day Eight - Flew back to KC!

To Scout!

We are all signed up!! Tuesdays will be very busy this year!

Lizzie will be a Brownie at the Middle School on Tuesday afternoons! I think she will have lots of fun! Her leader seems very nice! I'm excited for her!

The boys will also have meetings on Tuesdays! Thankfully, it's the evening and our times don't criss-cross! Tanner will be a Tiger and Hunter a Webelos! Should be interesting - I have to be at Tanner's meetings....not sure what to do with Lizzie yet. She may have to just go with us...we shall see!

I really think that we're going to have a great year!!!

To Scout or not to Scout...

That is the question.

I had hoped to get the kids in scouting groups with other homeschoolers, but unfortunately that is not going to work out. The meetings are either too far away - or are on the wrong night. So, we'll be looking at local groups through the school district.

Tonight we check out the Cub/Boy Scouts. Found out by accident that there is a meeting at Stony Point (kids' old school) tonight! Looking forward to seeing if we can get the boys involved. Tomorrow night is the Girl Scouts meeting!!

We shall see!!

Figured it Out!!

Ok, I have been trying to update this blog all summer long and have had some trouble. A couple of months ago, I got a nasty virus on my computer and nearly lost it! Jeremy managed to save it for me, but not without a few weird quirks. One: I can create a post, edit a post, add pics to a post, but can't publish a post from the main screen. I just now figured out how to get a post published, so hopefully I'll be more regular with updates!!!

And that's my update for today - as I'm dealing with an allergy/sinus issue - coupled with quitting pop and it's not going well!!

Happy Stinkin' Tuesday.

Testing...

Not even sure this will post....