Christmas in Florida!!

We had a blast in Florida! And it was heartbreaking to leave the beautiful weather, especially since it was snowing when we got home.

Lame.

We arrived on Christmas Eve around 4 p.m., as did Katherine, Bruce, and Finn. The 'rents had arrived the day before to get some groceries and all that for the week since we were staying in a condo with a kitchen.

For Christmas Eve we just hung out and had sloppy joes for dinner. Scarlet, Jeremy and I got Christmas Eve pajamas and Scarlet had a blast opening hers! She loves wrapping paper and bows.

We had a great Christmas morning. I got some silver pendants stamped with "scarlet," "j & s," and "6.1.06" (our wedding date) that I'm going to put on a silver chain. And while we were in Epcot I harvested a pearl from an oyster in "Japan" and had it turned into a pendant, so I'm going to put that pearl on that necklace, too. Jeremy got a bluetooth headset for his phone, but it was DOA (dead on arrival) so we need to exchange it. And Scarlet got lots of books and toys. Her favorite part was the paper and bows, though!

Scarlet and Finn playing on Christmas morning; Scarlet looking at a book she got for Christmas

We visited both Magic Kingdom and Epcot. We all went to Magic Kingdom, and then just Jeremy, Scarlet, my mom, and I went to Epcot. It was really fun, but we've all decided that we prefer Disneyland to the Magic Kingdom. It's bigger, they do more for the holidays (no Haunted Mansion Holiday or Small World Holiday at Disney World), and we like the design of the park more. We celebrated Finn's birthday while we were at Magic Kingdom. We had lunch at the Crystal Palace, and it was amazing! Plus, it's character dining, so Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger were all there going around to each table! Scarlet was tired when Tigger came around, but woke right up for the other characters!

Katherine, Bruce, and Finn left the park early to go home and put Finn to bed, but we all stayed until later in the evening. Scarlet is not a very good sleeper when it comes to early bed times, so she was pretty much raring to go after her afternoon nap. It was fun to stay after dark and we got on Splash Mountain a couple of times with a 5 minute wait!

In Epcot we didn't really get on any of the rides (besides two really lame ones) because the lines were soooo long (4 hours for Soarin' over California), but we had a great time exploring the different "countries" in the World Showcase.

We had breakfast in France. It was to die for!

I got a pretty Venetian glass necklace in Italy.

My mom and I harvested pearls in Japan.

We had lunch in China.

And we explored the other "countries," too!

One of the best parts of the day at Epcot was seeing Scarlet meet the main Disney characters! She loved it!

We stayed in Cocoa Beach, right on the Atlantic Ocean and had a private beach for our condo. It was so nice and so pretty. And the ocean was surprisingly warm! We got some cool shells that we're going to do something with, I just have to figure out what I want to do. The drive to and from Florida wasn't too bad, either. Scarlet barely cried at all! One of us sat in back with her so she wouldn't think she was alone and she did really well!

And now we're back in Wisconsin and it's cold and we're all sick and we want to be back on the beach! Here are some more pictures from our trip:

At Epcot

Tons of Pikachus in the store in "Japan" = Awesome!; the view from our balcony

Picture of Jeremy and Scarlet through an aquarium at Epcot; breakfast in the Magic Kingdom

Shopping at Sir Mickey's in Fantasyland

To see the rest of the pictures of our vacation, click here