The leaves were changing and the weather was great! I should have known it was going to be busy when we had trouble finding a hotel room that it would be busy, but since this was one of our only chances to go, we went for it. We ended up waiting an hour to park. Then rode a ride and decided to get in line for food. We were all "hangry" and had to wait in line for an hour for food also. It was touch and go for a little bit, but thankfully we all felt better after we ate. We were only able to ride 4 rides in the 4 hours we were there. We just decided to get a cinnamon roll and head to the hotel to relax a little.
Our hotel was pretty nice! It was in a gated area and had 24/7 security with a guard shack checking vehicles entering or exiting. This made me feel better about traveling alone with the kids. After we enjoyed our cinnamon roll and watched some Sprout we headed to check out the new Ci Ci's Pizza and Family Fun Center. The kids love arcades and had such a good time. Then we all ate some pizza and headed back to play in our hotel room - which is one of the kids most favorite things to do.
Saturday we got up and went to the Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure. We have drove past this place several times and finally decided to stop and check it out. It was really a cool place. We started by looking at all the Rainforest animals - mainly just frogs and lizards. Then we did the coolest mirror maze I have ever been in - we had to do it twice it was so much fun. Then we went to the aviary to feed the butterflies. We did a bungee course and watched a 3D movie about the life cycle of butterflies.
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| Mirror Maze |
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| Bungee Course |
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| Feeding butterflies nectar |
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| 3D movie |
Next we decided to take old time pictures! I love taking old time pictures and Nathan is not a fan so I decided this would be a good time to do them since he wasn't with us. Like I said, Branson was busy, so it took us 3 stops before we found a place with no wait, but this place was perfect. They were great with the kids and got some great pictures. The kids had so much fun and are already asking to do it again :)
We then did a little shopping - GAP for Momma and Disney Store for the kids before we ended our trip with a round of golf. We ended up golfing at a course that Nathan and I golfed on when we went up one weekend during the time we were struggling with infertility. It was such a good, weird, full-circle feeling to be there golfing with my TWO kids 8 years later. It was a great ending to our trip for sure!
We even made it home in time to have movie night with Daddy! Sunday we got up and all got ready for church. I had been having a headache off and on that morning - only lasting a few seconds each time. Then when it was time to go, the vision in my left eye was blurry and streaky. My head felt fine, but my vision worried me. We actually made it all the way to church and decided the lights and music may make it worse so we went back home so I could rest and see if that helped. Thankfully after about a 30 minute nap my sight was back to normal and I felt fine the rest of the day. Ryan had her first soccer game back after having to sit out for her tonsillectomy so I was glad I didn't have to miss it! She hustled the whole game and looked really cute and even managed to kick the ball a few times. Noah had a pretty good soccer day too. He was playing Avengers the entire time, but did manage to kick it a few times and even scored a goal!
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| This was Noah about 75% of the game :) |
The rest of the day was spent doing laundry and cleaning and Nathan even reinstalled my dishwasher that I have been asking him to do for 3 months now. We ended the weekend with the kids asleep early while we enjoyed dinner and 48 Hours - just like old married couples do :)
Next up on our agenda is pumpkin carving, a birthday party, Halloween parties and Trick-or-Treating!
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