new member

While I was out this morning my parents bought a new member to the family. We are deciding on a name to give her right now.

A rare act

Here is a picture of my six month old niece actually smiling. Anytime that I held her she would fall asleep in my arms and then I became very hot from holding her but she looked so cute and so precious.

Splash Mountain

Before I tell you about this ride I want to first say that I am TERRIFIED of heights. Yesterday at Magic Kingdom it was very hot and very crowded and everyone including the kids except, mom and my 6 month old niece, wanted to go on Splash Mountain so I decided to go along with them knowing about the 50 foot drop right there at the end. I had the best time on the ride and got completely soaked and was laughing and screaming all the way down the 50 foot drop. I came off still laughing about it and found out later from my sister-in-law that as we were going up the hill she was praying for me that I wouldn't get scared. She bought the picture that was taken and I am going to send it to her and she is going to make a shirt that says "I SURVIVED SPLASH MOUNTAIN" and live to tell about it. :) Of course this is a once in a life time thing I just wanted to prove to myself and anyone else that I am not chicken and that can do what everyone else does. I will probably from now on keep my feet on the ground. I did scream very loud and was afraid that I may have deafen my sister-in-law's mother since she was sitting right in front of me.

All God's Creatures

This week I have had the privilege of joining my parents in Florida, and I have seen a lot of different creatures around the condo. I unfortunately forgot my camera so I could not capture the critters, but here are some that I have seen; frogs, gecko, grasshoppers, and many others that I don't know names to. Today we went to Animal Kingdom and it was fun plus it rained on us so we were able to cool off for a while. Probably my favorites from today would have to be the Lion King Musical; the dinosaur ride (with dinosaurs that came right up to the car that we were riding in); and my very least favorite was the African safari trip because it was so bumpy up and downs and pretty fast. We then had our family tradition of cooking pasta at the condo for all the family members who made their way here from the north (IL); South (TX) the far east and north (NY). Oh well another trip to Magic Kingdom tomorrow which will be the second day for most of the crew but will only be my first day at Magic Kingdom; but I went to it when my mom, dad, sister, and brother came back in 1985 or somewhere around there.