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I don’t know about you all, but we are ready for summer to arrive at our house. This is probably the first year in a while that I’m actually looking forward to school getting out, but we are looking forward to sleeping in, not having a set schedule, and checking things off our bucket list. I put together a list of some of the things that we definitely want to do during summer break. What’s on your list?
So, I realize that Spring Break was just last month for most of us, but I am so far behind on my blog posts that I am just now getting around to posting pics from last year’s Spring Break trip! Maybe I’ll have photos from this year’s trip ready for you all to see before Christmas. 🙂
We spent Spring Break at a beach house in Florida and my parents were able to fly down from CA to hang out with us. The weather was all over the place. We were there for a full week and half of the time was hot and sunny and the other half was cloudy and too cold for me to venture into the water. My kids never think it’s too cold to go swimming though!
My boy is the king of the sand hill!
My kids had the best time with my parents. I definitely think that it’s time to plan another beach vacation with the grandparents!
Time to build a sand castle. Just look at their concentration. 🙂
This day, we decided to go in reverse and instead of building up the sand, we dug a trench and the kids pretended to be waiters. It’s hard to tell from this angle, but the trench was deep enough that my son could just peek his eyes over the wall.
We rented a house right on the beach between Destin and Seaside, along Hwy 30-A. It was so nice being able to walk right out and set up “camp” for the day. Then we could easily head back inside for lunch and restroom breaks, which is HUGE when you’re vacationing with kiddos. I would definitely go back to this location again!
In keeping with my theme of blogging about super old vacations, today I’m sharing our trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. My husband had a conference in Orlando last February, so we decided to pull my oldest out of school for a couple of days and tag along with him and make some memories.
This was my son’s first time to a theme park and he absolutely loved it! He was tall enough to ride a lot of the rides, although he did miss out on our favorites that were at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I guess that means we’ll just have to go back again. 🙂
While my son, who was 3 at the time, loved meeting all of the characters, my daughter’s favorite part was the rides. Especially those in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter because she loves all things HP! Unfortunately I didn’t get a lot of pictures of this part of the park because we were too busy riding all of the rides.
Both kids enjoyed picking out their wizard wands from Olivander’s and walking around, casting spells. Since our son wasn’t tall enough to ride some of the rides, my husband and I took turns taking our daughter on them. Which means she got to ride everything twice!
