Orlando/Cocoa Beach Day 5, 6 and Home

The last few days in Orlando were so much fun.

Friday morning we woke up.  Siena and I headed over to The Waffle House for breakfast (Aria doesn't like waffles very much so the rest stayed and ate at the hotel.)  It was yummy as always.  As a side note we ate at our favorite Steak 'n Shake twice while we were there and I love that place.  The kids gobbled up all their food as well both times.

After lunch we packed up and headed out to Cocoa beach on the coast.  It's only a 45 minutes drive.  We ate lunch at a park and seeing as we still had an hour before check in we headed to the beach in our clothes.  I thought we would hang out and then go get changed once we could get into our hotel room.  Well by the time that happened we were already totally wet and sandy so we spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach in our clothes until a storm came rolling in and it was raining.

The next morning after a little more rain, we headed right back out to the beach.  Lucky for us we got a late check out so right before check out we ran back to the hotel and showered and changed.  I'm pretty sure we could've stayed at the beach all week without getting bored. Aria especially loved going out in the water, which was so warm, and jumping waves with Dad. Jaron loved it too.  Siena was a little more cautious and chose to build sandcastles.  (This was kind of strange to me because Siena is more confident in pools and swimming than Aria is...)

That afternoon we headed back to Orlando and stayed at a hotel right by the airport.  We got all our stuff organized, dried out (still with lots of sand) and swam for quite a while before heading to dinner and watching a final movie in bed at the hotel. 

We woke up super early (4:45am eastern time) to drop off our car and get to our flight on time.  Luckily it all worked out and once again the kids were super good during the flight and we had no issues. 

We were all happy to be back in Utah and home and in our own beds that night.

We sure had a fun trip and one we'll never forget.  Lots of fun times, lots of firsts for the kids.  We made a video of our pictures and compiled all the videos and they've already watched them over and over again.  I'd say it was a success.