Tuesday
Jul082008
FIVE-DAY FAMILY ROAD TRIP!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 11:23AM
See Also: Road Trip Re-Cap - Five After-Thoughts.
It is so good to be home, although it will take a full week to recover from our FIVE-DAY FAMILY ROAD TRIP! We had a fantastic time, one of our best family vacations ever, from Atlanta to Cocoa Beach, Florida for now-8yo ADHD Phenom's birthday and fireworks on the beach on the 4th of July; three of us stayed and played all day at the Pirate Ship kid's pool at the Holiday Inn/Cocoa Beach -- it was awesome! -- while hubby and 13yo Puberty Angst Boy 'snuck off' to Daytona International Speedway (about an hour away) for pre-race activities and all-day NASCAR fun on the 4th. Everybody was perfectly happy with the arrangement, and our NASCAR boys ended up on TV, behind the media stages during Trading Paint and Trackside at...Daytona -- while Jimmie Johnson and Elliott Sadler were on-stage (two top NASCAR drivers)--ohmigod!!
After two nights at the beach, we drove to Orlando and spent two days at SeaWorld and Aquatica, SeaWorld's fabulous -- and, as it turns out, very, very popular -- new water park. After thoroughly exhausting and "crisping" (sunburn) ourselves at the theme parks, we got up Monday morning to make the long drive home to Atlanta, but ended up calling Mocha-the-dog's dog-holiday resort in Atlanta and ditching her for one more night, so we could 'stop by' Daytona (yes, the racetrack -- an hour outside of Orlando) 'on the way' home. We ended up staying and playing at Daytona International Speedway and the Daytona 500 Experience -- OFFICIAL ATTRACTION OF NASCAR -- (track tour, IMAX, racing simulators, museum, NASCAR gift shop, etc.) until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which got us home at midnight...just twelve short hours ago.
I picked up a happy dog up this morning, after taking hubby to work -- we are now all laying around, not moving for the rest of the day...let the catching-up/vacation recovery -- LAUNDRY -- begin...
It is so good to be home, although it will take a full week to recover from our FIVE-DAY FAMILY ROAD TRIP! We had a fantastic time, one of our best family vacations ever, from Atlanta to Cocoa Beach, Florida for now-8yo ADHD Phenom's birthday and fireworks on the beach on the 4th of July; three of us stayed and played all day at the Pirate Ship kid's pool at the Holiday Inn/Cocoa Beach -- it was awesome! -- while hubby and 13yo Puberty Angst Boy 'snuck off' to Daytona International Speedway (about an hour away) for pre-race activities and all-day NASCAR fun on the 4th. Everybody was perfectly happy with the arrangement, and our NASCAR boys ended up on TV, behind the media stages during Trading Paint and Trackside at...Daytona -- while Jimmie Johnson and Elliott Sadler were on-stage (two top NASCAR drivers)--ohmigod!!
After two nights at the beach, we drove to Orlando and spent two days at SeaWorld and Aquatica, SeaWorld's fabulous -- and, as it turns out, very, very popular -- new water park. After thoroughly exhausting and "crisping" (sunburn) ourselves at the theme parks, we got up Monday morning to make the long drive home to Atlanta, but ended up calling Mocha-the-dog's dog-holiday resort in Atlanta and ditching her for one more night, so we could 'stop by' Daytona (yes, the racetrack -- an hour outside of Orlando) 'on the way' home. We ended up staying and playing at Daytona International Speedway and the Daytona 500 Experience -- OFFICIAL ATTRACTION OF NASCAR -- (track tour, IMAX, racing simulators, museum, NASCAR gift shop, etc.) until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which got us home at midnight...just twelve short hours ago.
I picked up a happy dog up this morning, after taking hubby to work -- we are now all laying around, not moving for the rest of the day...let the catching-up/vacation recovery -- LAUNDRY -- begin...
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