RoadTrip!

So this past weekend we took a road trip with Amanda and Carrigan, to Orlando! We had such a good time! We got to stay in a SA-WEET hotel, where we took the girls swimming that night and of course they loved it! Carrigan and Jolee are both 3 years old, and they play and get along so good. It is hysterical to listen to and watch them.

playing in the water

All bundled up together, heading back to our room!

The next morning, we went to the "Uniquest" McDonald's in the world. I'm serious.... we had Belgium waffles for breakfast, and on the menu for dinner was stuff like Shrimp Alfredo, Shrimp Scampi, Pizza, Pasta, at MCDONALD'S people. It was a 3 story building with 1 whole floor, nothing but a huge play area. It had chandeliers in the bathroom with granite counter tops. Dude, we were amazed!

Jolee and Carrigan playing at the indoor playground in McDonald's

(Jolee, Amanda, and Carrigan)

From their, we headed to Downtown Disney and enjoyed the rest of the day, looking at shops, eating, and traumatizing our girls. The first thing was the water taxi, we took from one side to the other of the park. Carrigan was not so sure of it, at all! Jolee was hesitant at first, but after she found out that the boat was going to go slow, she was fine. She kept saying, Carrigan its ok, we are big girls and this is slow.

So after the boat ride, we decided to take the girls to The Rainforest Cafe for lunch.....BIG MISTAKE!!! Of course, they sat us by this huge moving Gorilla and Jolee lost it, so we asked if we could move away from the BIG moving animals. All was a little better, until the lights went out and it started thundering and lightening and all the animals were making their animal sounds ( it does this every 30 mins). It was all over, bless her heart. Jolee was shaking, with her head buried and crying saying...I want to leave, I want to leave. There was nothing at this point anyone could do for her. I assumed once she got used to it, it would all be ok. But um NO, it wasn't ok. I finally had to leave the restaurant with Jolee, while Amanda got our food boxed up, so we could eat it outside. So after moving to 2 tables, we ended up eating our lunch outside and watching for "Ariel" in the water! Score for us Mom's, right?

I asked Carrigan, how she liked Rain Forest Cafe? And this was her face as she was saying it was "scaries" in there! The other pitiful thing was, while I was taking Jolee out of the restaurant, she kept saying....Thank you Mommy, for leaving with me. She was really terrified of the place, and then I felt really bad.

(Jolee, Pongo, and Mommy)

After those traumatizing experiences were over, we enjoyed the rest of our day at Downtown Disney!

Carrigan, Daffy, Donald, and Amanda!

The girls had such a good time! We all did, it was great to get away for a couple of days and have some girl time. The whole time we where packing, Jolee kept saying..... Daddy you can't go, this is a girls trip!
Thanks for the trip McCook girls, we had a blast!