Over the coming weeks I'll be sure and post additional pictures I've taken in order to keep everything documented, including Gunnar's first birthday. However, I'm starting this post with the pictures from our trip that were taken with our cell phones. My next post will be the good camera pictures!
We spent May 8-16th in Florida and accomplished a few different goals. Tara and I visited the Magic Kingdom. Chris, Tara, Ramin, Gunnar and I visited Epcot on Mother's Day. We spent a few days with Grandma Ceil in the Tampa Bay area and then I attended a professional training seminar in Orlando for the last few days of the trip while everyone else visited various places like Daytona Beach, Downtown Disney and other things.
The airplane ride to Florida DID NOT go as we had hoped. We took the red-eye direct flight from SLC to ORL in hopes that baby would sleep. Well, because of all the fun new things to see, sleep was the LAST thing on his mind. He was quite entertained and we were lucky to have an entire row to ourselves. The return trip we weren't so lucky but thankfully baby did sleep for half of the 4-hour flight.
Once we arrived in Orlando and got our rental van situation figured out, we had to drive around a lot that day to burn time before we could check in to our condo - I captured Gunnar finally catching up on the sleep he missed the night before.
Around noon that first day we headed over to Downtown Disney for a stroll. We stopped by the Lego store and boy was it a hit with Gunnar :)
We finally checked into the condo and Gunnar passed out BIG TIME!
The next morning Tara and I took off for Disney's Hollywood Studios and the Magic Kingdom. We literally stayed at Hollywood Studios for maybe an hour while we rode the Tower of Terror TWICE! I confirmed to myself that it was indeed my favorite ride ever (I'd never been on it before but I knew it was my favorite all this time).
I loved that first ride so much that I bought the picture Disney took of us on the ride. Tara and I are in the middle row
We then headed over to the Magic Kingdom. It was quite crowded but we were able to ride all of the rides we wanted to.
Sunday was Mother's Day and all of us visited Epcot. Baby did surprisingly well and it was nice because they had a Baby Center where we could relax inside and there were great changing tables and an area for babies to play.
We rented a stroller from Disney and the last half of the day we didn't even buckle Gunnar in because he was so fidgety - but he still did great.
On the drive down to Grandma's house Gunnar played with his toy I got for him at the Magic Kingdom - a little drum.
While having dinner with Grandma, we learned that Gunnar likes pickles! Who would have guessed?!?
Grandma played bubbles with him outside and he just loved it!
Grandma says she has breakfast every morning with Gunnar's picture - during our stay she got to actually eat with him in person!
She also played with him and read books
We also took a few walks around the neighborhood
Patty came to visit us too!
On the final day with Grandma, Ramin drove up as well to have dinner with all of us.
Back in Orlando we took an evening and went to the Pirate's Cove min-golf course. Gunnar had fun walking around making mischief
On our final night in Florida we took one last trip to Downtown Disney
I still have lots more pictures of the trip on our bigger camera. It has pictures of Gunnar's first time at the beach as well as some good shots of us with Grandma.
