Travels to Florida

Back in April, I went down to Florida for part of the postflight disassembly of the last shuttle flight's boosters. Since it was only for a little longer than a week, I took Zenna and Brandon with me. Right before the trip, Zenna got him atravel bag, since every time we've traveled, he's wanted to pull one of our bags around. It worked and he was so happy to pull his own little "Cars" luggage around!

This was the second time they came out, and this time it seemed Brandon enjoyed it better than the time he was there last year. Of course the beach is where we went first and Brandon had fun running back and forth among the waves.
The Easter bunny was here in Florida as well and we happened to catch him in one of the local parks.

A few days after arriving, we went to Walt Disney World in Orlando, and saw the Magic Kingdom. The park is huge and we weren't able to see everything. We think Brandon may have been overstimulated as well. But we still had fun. We stayed until late night to see the fireworks shows. We didn't get back to Port Canaveral until about 1 am. Here are some pictures from our visit:


We took a ride on a river paddle-boat about noon and Brandon thought it was fascinating with the big paddle wheel pushing the boat along. Along the way, he made a new friend:


Then the daily celebration parade came by with all kinds of floats. Brandon wanted to go with the Disney animals on the floats, but sadly he had to stay with us.


And of course we had to get a picture in front of the castle.

The next few days we spent going to the beach and having fun. I even borrowed a boogie board from the postflight office and let Brandon have fun with it.