March 26

 OOOHHH………so painful when the alarm went off this morning!!!  Today is WATER PARK DAY!!  We promised the kids that we would take them to one water park…..so we still couldn’t decide which one to go to…Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach (both Disney) or Aquatica (Sea World)…..Aquatica won out…it is a little cheaper, closer and it has dolphins to see and slide through the tank….Gracie was so happy when she saw those dolphins!!!!  We all had a great time riding the slides and floating through the lazy river…the little kids really enjoyed soaking each other on the water playground….

......checking out the slides before we start some serious slipping.....



.....tired kids after sliding all day at Aqutica.....

Gracie watches the dolphins....soooo happy!!!

the Commerson Dolphins at Sea World Aquatica......

Bill and Vic caught back up with us and they came bearing gifts (again)…Out of Uncle Bill’s trunk came walking sticks and all kinds of musical instruments from Animal Kingdom, a hat for Pam, numerous personal hygiene items for Tim when he gets here, scrapbooks and cereal!!  You rock, Uncle Bill!! 

making music with the new instruments from Auntie Vic and Uncle Bill....

We went to dinner at an all you can eat” pizza buffet and it was fun for the kids to get to try all the types of pizza and as much as they wanted.  The chicken alfredo pizza was yummy!!  We did some shopping and enjoyed the outdoor entertainment at Downtown Disney for the rest of the evening and pretty much closed the place down….so surprising, isn’t it.  We had fun snapping up some cute Disney memorabilia…..

....making friends with POOH and Tigger...

......don't give me any lip.....

...checking out Downtown Disney.....

....cool t-shirts from the left hand store.....

...avoiding the spitting water from in front of the Disney Store...

Christian, of course, was soooo excited to shop, hahaha...NOT!! He is being stretched beyond the normal capacity of shopping patience during this trip.......Uncle Bill had his back and took all of the little kids over to the LEGO store and he had a blast checking out all of the cool LEGOS and the things made out of LEGOS......he made me take pictures of every single statue....

bye Mickey......

as we loaded into the cars, Pam realized that the keys to the RV were in it back at the KOA……uuuhhhoooohhh….no problem, we placed a call to AAA again and when we got through the guy informed me that I might not have the right coverage (in Florida you have to have an RV plan to get help with an RV)…WHAT??  Ok a few tense moments later he assured me that even though we are from California that they will help us…..we would, however, have to wait at least an hour so we all loaded back into the cars to avoid the night chill…..my little kids were so tired by this time that even though the car full of teenagers were laughing so hard and ridiculously, they slept right through it….Jenna joked that Christian had fallen asleep at the wheel since he was sitting in the driver’s seat in Bill’s car…..we waited and waited, almost falling asleep ourselves as we sat in the cars…...out of nowhere a small white car sped up and slammed on the brakes and jolted us all alive!!  Yeah, our help had arrived, finally at 1:30ish....unfortunately, it wasn’t to be....The man jumped out of his car and asked where the vehicle was, we gestured to the RV and he became quite worked up, claiming he could not work on RVs and that they aren’t covered by AAA and he would not be able to help us......trying to remain calm, I answered the phone that happened to be ringing at that moment....guess what, it was AAA just checking in to see how we were doing.....so again the AAA rep assured me that it was no problem and asked to speak to the locksmith.....He tried to calm him down and ok for him to help us....No matter what he tried (slim jim, air pump, etc...) nothing  worked and at one point he walked over to his car, climbed in and just sped away without saying anything.....we all just stood there watching him leave and looked at each other with bewilderment....NOW WHAT???  My resourceful bro had already been  trying to get in with a makeshift tool that he had jimmy rigged out of Vic’s really cute Mickey Mouse umbrella (now ruined) but it wasn’t working so again we surveyed the RV and Brittany (after some hard pushing and pulling) was able to get the back window open....Bill could not get the screen out without cutting it so we did that and picked the smallest of the crew, Gracie, to put through the small space.....she was so proud to be the savior of the day and joyfully opened the front door to let us in......

Gracie going through the window to unlock the RV..

....happy to have the keys...

You can be assured that we immediately went to the front seat and got out the “extra” keys (that Dave had made for us and told us about....we forgot about them until now) and put them in our respective camera bags so that this situation will not happen again....you learn something new every day....... Poor Bill, Vic and Jen

na...they had an hour ish drive to get home and didn’t get there until after 4:00 am.....again the internet was working weird and I fell asleep again trying to communicate with y’all......