a change of plans

so i spent last week in florida, visiting my great friend tina and her family. i've had this trip planned for at least 3 months. i'm a huge planner that way, and tina herself is a big planner. then on friday afternoon i get a text from tina asking which airport i was flying into. tina lives in central florida and lives about 45 minutes from both tampa and orlando. the tampa airport is easier for tina to get to, so i always fly into tampa. so i replied to her text saying i was flying into tampa. well we ended up having a short conversation about the fact that they (tina and her family) wanted to have a little labor day getaway to orlando, and if i could change my flight from sunday into tampa, to saturday into orlando. my first thought was that it wouldn't work out, because i figured their would be a lot of money involved with changing my flight with only a 24hour notice. well let me just say that southwest airlines rocks! the flight saturday night into orlando was cheaper than my flight sunday morning into tampa. so i actually got a $20 credit! how awesome is that!?
while flying to the east coast i got to see the sunset from the plane. check out the awesome pic from the air!
seeing tina and her boys was great. we stayed in a beautiful hotel right near disney. the first night we just had a casual dinner while watching some college football. max follows his dad's lead, and loves football. it is such an awesome relationship to see grow.
my first full day in orlando tina and i went and got pedicure's at the hotel's spa, then we spent sometime at the pool as a family.

tina, me, max, and jake

tina and jason

tina and i

that's the epcot ball in the backdrop.

that evening we made reservations to go to a character dinner. everyone was really looking forward to this. now usually at these dinners the restaurant usually has at least a handful of characters making the rounds and mingling with the diner's. well this dinner only had 2 characters: pluto and goofy. right off the bat we were disappointed. then we found out that the restaurant was a buffet. i really don't like buffet's. then we got the bill. this not good buffet was $45. so all in all very disappointing. i like good food, and spending $45 of bad food is not quality time for me.
but. i did get to dance with goofy, which was so much fun!

smiling with goofy

max and jake, with goofy

after the huge disappointment of dinner, we found a bar, and i had a very pretty drink.
after the pretty drink, tina and i shared some champagne out on the balcony of our hotel room. we had a great time.
hanging out with such an awesome family in orlando was great fun! i truly feel so blessed to know them!

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