We drove home on Saturday (Feb 27th). Carter was up at 5:45 am which helped us get out early. We were on the road at 7:45 am. Overall we only paid for 2 nights of our 7 nights in Florida. Even though Brian sometimes traveled a lot at his last job, it was nice that he was able to collect so many hotel points.
Carter did okay on the drive back. The highlight was the 2 hour nap he took in the afternoon! We brought along an old portable DVD player that we got for free a long time ago when we had bought a new TV. We were all so tired and Brian and I were having trouble coming up with new ways to entertain Carter that we let him watch 2 movies (Finding Nemo and Shrek) on the way home. He paid attention through most of the movies though I don't think he really understood what was going on. He's so funny because anything that you'd think might scare him just made him laugh.
We got home around 6 pm - the drive was just over 10 hours again. Sarah and her family were nice enough to pick up Charlotte for us from the kennel and drop her off at our house before we got there. Our kennel is only open until lunch on Saturday and is closed on Sunday.
The drive home didn't seem quite as short on the way back as it did on the way down, but it also wasn't too bad. We were flying out for San Francisco on Monday so I spent the evening getting caught up on bills and unpacking some. No time to relax!
There are a few things I forgot to talk about in my previous Florida trip posts that I wanted to catch up on here.
One thing that was a little weird the first day but that we got used to quickly was that you can't take your stroller with you into anything at Sea World and Disney. There is stroller parking outside of all the rides, shows, and animal exhibits. We brought our Maclaren stroller with us and luckily never saw one with the same colors that we could have grabbed by mistake. The first day we were a little hesitant about leaving our stroller (we took everything out of it every time), but by the time we went to Magic Kingdom, we left the diaper bag and jackets (if we had them) with the stroller and just took my small bag I was using as a purse with us. The only "damage" we had to our stroller was birds pooping on the sunshade a couple of times (luckily it wiped off easily with a wipe and didn't stain).
Carter had his cold the entire trip and finally started getting better the day after we got home. Luckily it was only his nose running and no coughing or fever, so it wasn't too annoying. We had to wipe his nose a lot every day (which Carter hates), but he wasn't too bothered by the cold otherwise. I still felt bad that he had it the entire vacation.
Several people seemed surprised that we were taking a 15 month old to Disney World - they thought he was too young to get anything out of it. However, I thought this was a great age. Carter may not specifically remember a lot of it, but he had so much fun each day and learned so much. I honestly can't say I remember a lot from the couple of times I went to Disney growing up and I was a lot older than Carter.
I was thinking the other day about the last big trip that Brian and I took before we got pregnant with Carter - we went to Peru and hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. This was probably the coolest trip we'd ever taken (sailing around Belize for a week is a close second). However, I really, really loved this trip to Florida. I had so much fun with Carter and Brian. We laughed so much and enjoyed seeing Carter have so much fun. I think this trip may now be my favorite of all time. I really wouldn't of thought that before the trip because I knew it was going to be a lot of work with taking care of Carter instead of just relaxing. I'm so glad we went!
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