Well, Tadd and I are posting a blog about all the crazy things that have happened to us this trip. And since Tadd's blog is not supposed to be written in for another month...we are using mine.
We will start with Wednesday. We woke up at 6:30 and Aunt Kathie took us to the airport and as usual, mom found some mormon family to talk to during the layover in New Mexico. Dad found some connections because the lady was from Mexico City...so they spent a while talking about the beauties of Mexico. Then we got on the plane and went to Florida. When we got to Tampa, we ran into some guy Tadd knows from working at the MTC...He said he was going to his friend's wedding in Orlando. Then we parted ways and went to find the rental car. When we first got outside the humidity hit us like a thick blanket of water. It was crazy. Then, once we found the car, we spent 30 to 45 minutes looking for our hotel...which turned out to be about 15 minutes from the airport. We got up early the next morning and traveled to Orlando where we spent MY BIRTHDAY at Epcot (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow). We went on Soarin' over California again there, and we talked Dad into going on it. He was the live entertainment. The whole time he was sitting there with his eyes closed and the funniest look on his face. We went on other rides and then we watched the fireworks which were pretty cool. We were watching them right at the moment I turned 13. It was a cool birthday for me.
Friday we spent at Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom. We went on a lot of cool rides, and then we went swimming at the hotel. Again, fun day.
Saturday we went to the Temple. Tadd and I ended up in the baptistry with a deaf lady (who was being interpreted to by a 13 or so year old girl who was getting sealed that day to her family), and an obviously Utah-mormon family from Vernal. Tadd ran into his old bishop there. We got out about an hour before mom and dad and sat in the waiting room for a while. Then we went outside and ran into the guy we had seen at the airport. He was there for his friend's wedding. Tadd was walking around outside when he saw something that looked like a stick that was sticking up out of the ground. He looked closer and it moved. It was a snake! It almost gave him a heart attack. Then he showed me and it disappeared so I was freaking out cause I couldn't see it. Then when mom and dad came out Tadd called his good friend Sister Bailey and we visited with her (of course we'll add pictures as soon as we get back). After that we went and visited with the Schmidts for about two hours. We talked a lot about thing happening in Centerville. Once we had left Mom confided in us that she was worried we didn't tell them enough things that were happening in the 9th ward. Tadd told her that, "If we told them anymore, we'd have to start making things up."
On the way back to the hotel, we passed a lagoon type carnival. There was a bungee thing where people would be slung up into the air and bounced around in the air (you've all seen it at lagoon probably). While we were passing Mom spotted a smaller one. She described it as "Oh, they have a smaller one for kids. They bounce them on the ground instead."
Last night when we were about to go to bed, Tadd turned around and saw a cockroach the size of a silver dollar! It was way cool.
Today has been a quiet day. We went to church and talked to some of the people Tadd knew from his mission. We are looking forward to our last few days in Florida, and the chance to come back to good ol' Utah!
