Though Sean never really got back to 100% during the remainder of the trip, he did manage to run at about 98% Wednesday through Friday, so that was good enough for us. Evan seems to have managed to dodge whatever it was we were dealing with, and that was good enough for us too.
Thursday morning, Dan & I decided to take the boys to the Florida Mall to check out the M&M World store. It was really quite spectacular -- definitely more so than I imagined. Every color of M&M you can think of, plus some you probably wouldn't think of. Plus M&M shirts, pants, underwear, socks, kitchen accessories, picture frames, candy dispensers, office supplies, tote bags, magnets, jewelry.... am I forgetting anything? We were in that store alone probably a good 45 minutes.
We also poked into a few other stores at the mall, but really, a mall is a mall is a mall. Gap, JC Penney, Gamestop, perhaps a Spencers and/or Hot Topic.... it's all the same.
I also received a text Thursday from my friend Jason who -- as luck would have it -- happened to be vacationing in Florida with his wife & daughter, and they were spending the day in Orlando. So we made plans to hook up with them at the Disney Boardwalk for ice cream and a stroll.
I live in Michigan. He lives in Maryland. So it only makes sense that we would travel 1000 miles away from either of our houses to meet for ice cream, right?
Thursday night we were on a leftover-eating mission so we could throw out as little as possible before leaving the house on Friday morning. We did pretty good, but I think most of us are now popcorned out. And I'm still mourning the loss of the four cans of Dew we had to leave behind.
*sniff, sniff*
Once at the airport on Friday morning, we decided it'd be a great idea to rent one of those luggage carts so we could put all our carry-ons on it rather than all 7 of us trying to pull/push one and push my grandparents in their wheelchairs. So I paid the $4.00 to get a cart.
Dan loaded all our carry-ons onto it -- we had six of them! -- and conveniently pushed it the 100 feet to the security line....
.... where we were told the cart can't go through security.
It was one of those "W-T-F?" moments.
So we unload the cart and proceed to pull/push our bags through security and all the way to the end of the terminal where, when I'm traveling, my gate always seems to be located.
Evan actually snoozed for a little bit on the flight home before he woke up and decided he was bored. But the home-flight was still definitely easier than the going-flight.
No snow when we got home, but by the time we went to bed last night, there was plenty of it. I'm ready to go back to Florida now (minus the sick).
Posted all the pics to Shutterfly tonight. (I took an almost-three hour nap this afternoon so here it is, after 11pm and I'm still going strong. I'm gonna be sorry about that nap come 7am tomorrow morning).
