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Thrilling

October 25, 2024

Nothing better than the photos from the rides! You can see how much fun we were having!!

harry potter

potter

potter

Well, maybe not so much fun for Samantha here on Hulk! ha!

hulk

hulk

My face shows how much I did not like this Harry Potter ride – it was cool but just too much VR for my stomach to take!

harry potter

Of course we were all happy on VelociCoaster! The BEST!

Thankfully we didn’t get too wet on the river…

and we were very focused on shooting those aliens!

I love spending the day with my favorite thrill seekers!

The most fun day!

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More Universal

October 24, 2024

Day 2 at Universal we picked up another passenger!

universal

Robert flew in Friday night and joined us for the very best day at Universal. We had a VIP guide and got to literally walk onto all of the rides as many times as we wanted! So, so fun! We rode them all and rode them again. We had lunch in Simpson’s land and went to gate 9 3/4 to ride the train to Hogwarts and got more butter beer. Can’t beat it!

universal

universal

beer

See that giant coaster in the back? We rode that! Plus Hagrid’s and Velcicoaster and Hulk! Yes, I got Samantha on Hulk. She might have had some tins of mints in her shoes and she might have set off the metal detector you have to go through to make sure you aren’t taking your phone on the ride, but we didn’t get caught and she made it on!

A fantastic, full day!

universal

 

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Fall break

October 23, 2024

We ended up having the very best Fall break but we weren’t sure if it was going to happen at all the week before! GJ and I had been planning a surprise trip to Universal and Disney for the kids in honor of Spencer’s birthday! He’s always wanted to go to Universal and we thought this was the perfect time. Well, it was the perfect time…but Hurricane Milton had some other ideas! It was a stressful week watching Milton’s expected path wobble all over the coast – we didn’t want it to hit Naples or Orlando! Thankfully it all worked out. Milton moved on through by Thursday and we were able to make our flight to Orlando Friday morning! On the plane by 7:30am…

plane

In GJ’s car by 10:30am…

orlando

and at Universal by 11:30am!

ronaldo

universal

Can’t beat that! We had the best time using the fast passes we got because we stayed at a Universal hotel. We really never waited in lines and got to do many of the rides over and over. Our favorite was definitely the Jurassic Park VelociCoaster! The most fun roller coaster I’ve ever ridden! Samantha made it on all the rides the first day except for Hulk – she wasn’t quite tall enough. We loved walking through Simpsons land…

simsons

universal

and Harry Potter world!

fall break

Butter beer got a thumbs up!

universal

All the Despicable Me stuff was fun too!

universal

universal

After a full day we had dinner at Margaritaville at City Walk and walked away with some good headpieces!!

orlando

orlando

The most fun day with lots more fun to come!

fall break

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More birthday

October 22, 2024

Spencer had a little more birthday celebrating to do on Saturday! He had some buddies come over around halftime of the AL v. TN game (we will not speak of the outcome of that). Roll Tide anyway!

football

Samantha also got to have a friend tag along.

jump

We then we headed to the jump park during the 4th quarter of the game.

jump park

birthday

After the jump park we went to eat at – where else? – Tecate!

tecate

And if that wasn’t enough, we finished off the night with ice cream.

ice cream

A perfect celebration for my favorite 12 year old!!

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Celebrating

October 21, 2024

We had a fun weekend celebrating our favorite 12 year old!

12

I took donuts for the whole grade up to lunch. Spencer very nicely told me I didn’t have to actually eat lunch with him. πŸ™‚ I’m glad he has good buddies he likes to each lunch with at school. He did let me take a picture of a bunch of them! Plus, Samantha’s lunch is at the same time so I just had lunch with her. Win win!

lunch

lunch

That night Spencer had football practice and then we had dinner at Waldo’s (birthday boy’s choice!) and brownies at home. No surprise there!

bday

bday

bday

bday

bday

bday

A great day for a great kid! Happy birthday Spence!

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