The return....from vacation....

HOWDY all!
Miss me? I missed you! Well, actually I had a wonderful vacation full of laughs and booze and warm night swimming! BUT I have been thinking about you.....mostly about how terrible it was for you last week....NOT vacationing! So that is something...right?
I wanted to share some highlights from my little trip away!
I was with my family, and as I mentioned in my post - last week, this was my first visit to Florida without my parents.
​This was my first....

I think if we amortized our trips to Florida over 40 years- it works out to one visit every 2 years (ish). It was wonderful!!!
I am GRATEFUL for the remarkable memories that will stay with me forever! So I guess it isn't a surprise that there were some really bitter-sweet moments of missing my folks this past week...but we sure talked a LOT about them!
Thankfully, I think we made some NEW memories we can now look back on with nostalgia!! Mostly it was a lot of fun! SO.....let's get to it.....some of the stuff I saw and did....
I WILL NOT tell you how much I hate PEARSON AIRPORT....
Nope.....I will not mention how we got to the airport THREE FREAKING HOURS EARLY....and only made it to onto our plane with 5 minutes before lift off!!!!! I will not mention the SIX CUE LINES we had to endure....at 4am in the morning.......
TERRIBLE AIRPORT ORGANIZATION - they should be ASHAMED!!!!!!
Okay - rant over.....in FLA we rented a house in Kissimmee.
Here are some pics...

I would stay in a house again....for sure.....but next time I would CHOOSE the house myself online - so I KNEW exactly what the house looked like, and what the amenities were! 
In FLA we did all the touristy things!
​Starting with Disney.......

...we went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure too.....

YES. I do enjoy a theme park!!
I get a little defensive here....as I find myself trying to explain why I enjoy the obviously corporate-money-grabbing commercialism of the theme park.
1. I have been going since I was 1 years old, so I have a tonne of wonderful memories from Disney.
2. I love the artifice of it - in the same way I enjoy Vegas! It is weird and wonderful and I can enjoy that about it!
3. Design...it is all about immersive details...I LOVE THAT! I am often thinking - OOH...that would be fun to design/paint. 
4. It's the theatre of it....and I love theatre too!
So there you go....stop yer judging already!
​;-)