Loving Apple

For our 10 year wedding anniversary, Tony got me an iPod Touch. I absolutely LOVE it! It has a bigger screen than my 3g Nano. It can hold DOUBLE the amount of items that my 3G Nano can. The applications and games (free) are awesome! AND I can listen to it without using headphones. I encompassed Tony's birthday gift, anniversary gift, and Father's Day gift into one...he received a Sony Playstation 3 and video games.

What is the 10 year symbol supposed to be? According to Wedding Tips Online the traditional wedding gift should be tin/aluminum and the modern wedding gift should be leather. I have NO clue what object would be within these categories other than a belt or watch for the modern wedding gift.

So needless to say we are good with purchasing the electronics but not necessarily jewelry or items that are representative of traditional wedding gifts. :-) I just have to give kudos to the Apple corporation. They have all these great gadgets and some really good software and hardware that hardly ever crashes or gives the dreaded PC "Blue Screen of Death". Granted if their products were more readily affordable, more people would purchase them and that would be nice but I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have to save and wait for the things you really desire. It does make you a smarter and more savvy consumer.

Bye Bye Orlando!

Friday, May 15
Friday...our travel day home. It was pretty uneventful. We had to wake up SUPER early and return the rental car and fly back home. Fortunately all of us had to be at the airport around the same time. Aunt Dinah rode on Southwest with us through Denver. We deplaned and she continued on to Phoenix. I think the most excitement occured when it was time to board the plane. I had taken Taylor to the restroom and they started our boarding. Well I had put the boarding passes into one of our carry on bags. Wouldn't you know, Aunt Dinah happened to pick up that bag and take it on the plane with her. Of course Tony and the kids and my mom stayed behind to wait for me because they didn't have their boarding passes and we had a slight moment of panic that we couldn't get on the plane. Fortunately, it all worked and we were able to board the plane BUT we had to sit in separate rows from each other.

When we got back to Tucson, Papa left my car at the airport and we went back to the store to say hello and bring him lunch. Then we went on our way home to try and unpack and do laundry. Back to the real world and our busy lives.

Orlando Fun...Day 9

Thursday, May 14
Kennedy Space Center
In all of our travels to Orlando, we had never driven down to Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center. Being that my mom and aunts were with us on this trip, we made sure that we drove down to visit. We could have used 2 days at Kennedy because there was still another leg of the tour and more IMAX movies to see and we just didn't have enough time to do it.

At Kennedy Space Center there are model shuttles that are on the grounds that people can look at. There is a restaurant, souvenier shop, iMax theater and the bus loading station for the rest of the tours.

Waiting to load the bus for the tours. The boys love to play around but this family shot is so typical us!

On stage 1 of the tour, this stuck racoon was the highlight of the viewing.

This is one of the 2 launch pads available for shuttle launches. A few days prior Atlantis was launched into orbit. This was the backup shuttle.

The above shuttle model is an actual replica showing the size and stature of the an actual Space Shuttle. Jackson and Anthony LOVE running underneath it.

We had dinner reservations at Cinderella's Royal Table at the Grand Floridian. So we had to leave before we could see the last part of the tour. We will probably be going back again the next time we are in Florida.

Cinderella's Royal Table
This is a buffet dinner with all of the characters from Cinderella. We saw Cinderella and Prince Charming. We saw Lady Trumane (Stepmother) and the wicked stepsisters (Anastasia and Drusella). The best part of this buffet were the desserts! YUMMY!!!!

A family picture before we entered the ballroom for our meal.

Taylor was so excited to see Cinderella. I think that Cinderella is her favorite princess. I know she is mine!

Prince Charming...swoon!

Drusilla and the kids. The characters REALLY played up their roles.

Anastasia was AWESOME. She was loud and rude and so proud to be evil!

Lady Trumane and the kids. She is so evil! However, during the dance portion of the meal, Anthony did dance with her and she was tolerant of it. :-)

Time to leave on our horse drawn carriage.

Bye bye everyone, our carriage awaits to take us back to the timeshare.