Monday morning started out with Shane's sister making breakfast sandwiches for the whole family. Oh my. They were sooooooo delicious! We ate at about 10. Then Shane and I went for a walk with the kiddos on the nature trails around the time shares. The kids loved it! Oliver even got to see some turtles in the water. At 1230 we went out to eat at a place called Columbia, which ironically is a Cuban restaurant. None of us were hungry, but it was a free meal! All we had to do was listen to a spiel about upgrading the timeshares. The lunch was mediocre, although it was in the town of Celebration, which is a surreal town. It looks plucked straight out of the 1940's. If you ever go to the Orlando area, I highly recommend taking an afternoon to walk around. Beautiful houses, beautiful pond, beautiful atmosphere. Oliver was getting antsy while we were waiting for the food, so I took him out to look at a fountain and he loved it. He was dying to run through it. He also made a little friend, a little 1 year old girl that walked right over to him and started holding his hand. Presh! So the food was only allright, probably because none of us had an appetite yet! The sales guy had mercy on us and said that the mommies and babies could go back to our units, and the husbands would just have to do the tour and sales pitch, etc. Lily spent the afternoon practicing her crawling. She'd been doing one or two crwls for a couple of weeks, but she got really good this week! Crawling at 7.5 months! Not too shabby! TWO hours later, Shane came back triumphant, having blocked every sales tactic they threw at him!
When they got back we all went in the pool. That day Irene had bought Oliver some water wings. He tried them out and immediately wanted to swim by himself! And he did! He can only swim for a few seconds, but he gets such a kick out of it! Of course, we had to deal with Mr. Big-In-His-Britches the rest of the trip thinking he could jump in the pool byhimself!
That night we went to see a dinner show called Arabian Nights. If you've ever heard of/been to the Mideval Times, its like that, but the focus is on the horses. The ticket price is $60, but we got tickets for $10 for going to the sales pitch...not too shabby! We were a little worried about Oliver keeping still for an hour and a half. Well, we had NOTHING to worry about. We had to remind him he had food in front of him, he was so fixated on the show. It was so awesome to see how into the show he was! We had been to this show 3 years previous, and it was okay, but seeing it with a child makes the show so much more fun! We didn't take a camera with us because we thought photography wouldn't be allowed, but it was actually encouraged! Boo! We got a picture of Oliver petting a horse at the end of the show on Mark's camera phone, but haven't gotten it from him yet. I'll post it when we do. Oliver still talks about petting the horse. He loved it so much! Another great day in Florida!
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