Orlando

In June Cody and I went on another little trip with his company. This one was to Orlando, FL...Cody had been working for two years to qualify for this trip and it was well worth it. We drove up to Utah and left our kids with my parents-and maybe I am a bad mom but I knew they were in good hands and I didn't worry about my kids at all-I had to remind myself I was a mom and had to check up on them once in a while! We stayed at the Waldorf Astoria, which was beautiful, and we just enjoyed 4 days of playing, relaxing, dinners, and insurance meetings. By the end of the trip I was tired but also I was very grateful for my husband who makes it all possible with his hard work-plus he my best friend-he makes life more entertaining and fun! I forgot my camera so these are mostly pictures the photographer who comes on these trips took-and a few from my cell phone...you can definitely tell a difference between the two!

The view of the pool-I would have been happy just to hang out here everyday, but being so close to so many theme parks and things to do made me a little antsy and stressed about missing out on things!

The table we sat at for one of the dinners. Each table was decorated differently  to go with one of the Disney Movies. Ours was Cinderella. The more I sat at this table and noticed all the details, I seriously was getting giddy-it was soooo pretty and made me feel like Cinderella herself could come sit by me. I felt like a little girl all over again!

One of my friends was telling me that I have model hands while we were driving on a bus. I could disagree with her completely, but the photographer heard her say this to me and so he made me show my model hands. I'm afraid it isn't the most hand flattering pose in the world.

One of the days we went on a tour of a little town called Winter Park. We ate lunch at a little French Restaurant that was delicious, we then went of a tour of a museum I can't remember the name of, but it has the biggest collection of Tiffany's stained glass windows, lampshades and just other artwork that he did. From was I understood it is the same Tiffany as the jeweler...it was amazing stuff!

This man loves his soda....seriously I married a goof ball.

After the museum at Winter Park we went of a boat ride on some Lakes, I can't remember the name of either. It was hot and humid (which almost killed me) but the houses along the banks of this lake were beautiful. There are a couple of lakes out there and they have connected them all with skinny canals for boats to pass through. I am ready to buy a kayak and move down there....if only somehow they could get rid of the humidity issue.

On the boat with some of our friends from the company.

The last night they had a dinner at the Museum of Flight museum...it was neat, it reminded me a lot of Hill  Air Force Base-but airplanes are always cool. Plus my hair was really enjoying itself that night...ahhhh.

The man that Cody is standing next to is pretty much who Cody aspires to be. He works Old American but he also has about 20 other businesses on the side. We will see if we ever make it, it sounds stressful to me!

This is at the Hollywood Studios park at Disney World. We decided to spend a half day there instead of Magic Kingdom just because the the magic kingdom is pretty much just like Disneyland. It was fun-I LOVE the Rocking Roller Coaster. However I honestly almost like Disneyland better. This park only had about six rides total in it. I feel like Disney World has more space so it just spreads out pretty much the same amount of rides into different parks so they can charge more money! It definitely has tons of other stuff to do that Disneyland doesn't but ride wise is is about the same just more compact which means less walking and waiting for shuttles! (Just my opinion)

The last full day we were there we went to Universal Studios. The big draw for me was definitely the part of the park that is for Harry Potter. It was awesome. I couldn't stop taking pictures of Hogwarts-it is just like in the movie-down to the forest that they planted around it. The ride inside the castle was fun-my stomach was a little upset with me afterwards-but it was definitely worth it.

They have created the town of Hogsmead, so fun, but it was very crowded so we didn't really explore much. I have heard the wand shop was pretty cool, but we didn't think it was worth the hour wait to get in!

The Hogwarts Express....so fun. Being here made me want to read the books again, and it even made my stubborn husband want to maybe read them also! Universal Studios was smart to put in the Harry Potter world because without it it is just another theme park!