FUN in Florida

FUN was:
all six grandchildren together (Mary too!) for a week in Orlando in late June.

Grandpa brought us all new Australia shirts

the blue tongue gang or did we just have blue slurpees? 

above: left to right: Ellie (4), Gracie (6), Issak (7), Scout (10) and Zach (4)

FUN was:
at day at Sea World's waterpark: Aquatica

Scout, Gracie, Ellie and Isaak watching the dolphins

FUN was:
a drive to St. Augustine to see Castillo de San Marcos National Monument - a big old Spanish fort in America's oldest city.

No, Grandpa did not insist we wear his shirts all week, but sure made it easy to find everyone 'out and about today".

FUN was:
cheering for Gracie and Zach at indoor soccer practice and enjoying a great playground after

Gracie and Zach

Ellie and Zach

Isaak

Katy - 21 months

FUN was:
at day at.....

Gracie and Ellie

Zach and Grandpa

It was a hot day and a break in the splash pad was most welcome! 

Ellie

Scout

Gracie

Scout enjoyed feeding the budgies (or parakeets)

for some bizarre reason, they loved her sandals

Isaak, Gracie, Ellie, Scout

It was great to have Stuart join us for the day

FUN was:

a day of bass fishing for Roy and Stuart

Stuart

Roy

Roy and Stuart

They had a lousy time. Hated every minute.    LOL!  

FUN was:
activities at our favorite Marriott resort

miniature golf

Grandpa and Katy

water balloon toss - Gracie and Ellie

Mary and Katy

Gracie, Scout, Ellie

Isaak

Scout

FUN was:
a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle Gracie picked out for us

 and having Becky join us for the last 2 days.
Thank you Gracie!   A long time Woodward tradition happily reinstated; and believe it or not we did not lose one piece!  Isaak saved the day though by finding several pieces on the floor.
Scout, Isaak and Gracie were a big help turning over the pieces and sorting as we started.  Understandably they would lose interest, (the pieces were small and 500 of them all looked a like!) and would wander off,  then return and surprisingly quickly find a piece, pop it into the puzzle, and wander away again. Time after time. Amazing!  How do they do that?

We also enjoyed seeing "Monsters University" together.
 " I've been waiting for this my whole life! I'm gonna be a scarer!"

 Remember the Woodward travel curse?  HA!! We beat it except for one day of intermittent thunderstorms. Not too bad.