Yesterday the group split up - 7 of us went off to experience Wet & Wild - a non-Disney water park that was, in a word, excellent! Sarah, Vanessa & I took Abigail and Colin on water slide after water slide, enjoying no line ups and fast water. After a long float in the lazy river, Abigail and Colin tested their strength on an inflated rubber balloon (picture a gigantic beach ball cut in half) where they had to climb up the slippery wet side using only a rope and their will to reach the top, only to the slide down the side and be dumped into a pool of water at the base. Ralph, Sarah and I went on the Brain Drain (enough said) and ice cream was a must by the end of our little adventure. Erin, Brooke, Ayla and Angie went off to ride the Everest coaster at Animal Kingdom so many times they are convinced that they have become one with Yeti. And still after that exhausting half-day (a full day by normal people's standards!) we whisked the girls off to the Bippity Boppity Boutique, where they had hair, nails and make-up done to complete the transformation into complete Princess-dom! Then off we went to Bergamo's, an Italian restaurant where the food was terrible, the service not-so-hot, but all the waiters sang. Yup. Opera and Broadway! Of course, dinner conversation was made up of which songs we could request that they might know! By the time we rolled the bus back home again, it was near 11 p.m., the kids were completely exhausted, Colin asleep in the car, and the adults were so tired we didn't even say goodnight to each other. All this to say - I'm not sure what makes a good vacation for others, but for me it's seeing the girls feel like real princesses, hearing my friends laugh, seeing my husband get in touch with his inner child and, of course, having ice cream every day.
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