Florida

 

 

The Saturday of Fall Break found the DeGraffenried's on an airplane early that morning, bound for FLORIDA!!!  We took the opportunity to go and visit Jake's parents that are assisting in the building of the Fort Lauderdale temple.  So, of course we had to go and visit!  We decided while we were there, we needed to go and visit Disneyworld, and were thrilled that Jake's parents were game in coming with us!  We had a blast!  It was crazy to see the different things Disneyland/Disneyworld.  The boys loved, loved, loved everything except getting up to goto Disneyworld (think 3 hours earlier than home!)  But, we enjoyed the trip.  It was fun to have kids old enough to go on all of the rides and the boys enjoying the adventurous, hang on by the skin of your teeth rides (mom's favorites).  They even liked some rowdier ones.  There were even a few -- probably one that I wouldn't go on again -- it was a rollercoaster -- Rockin Rollercoaster, but otherwise the entire family mostly enjoyed it all. 
I think the boys favorite was Splash Mountain and Thundermountain at the Magic Kingdom, at Hollywood Studios they loved like rode it 100 times, Star Tours, and they liked Rockin Rollercoaster.  The Wild Kingdom they liked Journey to Mt. Killamajaro -- funny about this one, Ryan was super nervous about this one, because they went backwards, but ended up loving it!  They also loved the Wild Rapid Ride and the Safari.  We also went to Epcot and did the Soarin ride after waiting 45 minutes to find that it was Soarin over California -- Jake loved this ride and his parents were impressed.  It was fun to have Jake's parents as they really showed us a different side of them on that trip!  
After spending several days at Disneyworld, we went back to Ft Lauderdale, and saw the beautiful, magnificent temple -- too bad it rained and poured while we were there -- we only have a picture of the boys in front of the picture of the temple in the trailer, but the temple had the Angel Moroni placed the following week.  As soon as we left the temple, it quit raining and we went on a boat tour of the Everglades and got to see some Alligators.  Crazy!  We also took the opportunity to soak our feet in the Atlantic Ocean.  We got there right at dusk, and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!  We left the following Saturday and wished that Florida wasn't so far away!