Mike conference days

On the 11th, a Monday, Mike started his 3 day conference.  The first 2 days were long, morning until late evening, and the 3rd day was a shorter one ending at 2:30ish.  The weather ended up great even though there was rain in the forecast.  We were lucky as without a car in the rain we would have gotten a little stir crazy in the hotel room.

Of course we spent our days at the parks and the different pools.

Girls with their new wet pets to play with in the water

Paige was really excited to get a hair wrap thing in her hair.  It lasts up to 2 months.  It's actually a pre-done piece that ties onto a small braid in her hair.

Rose watching the hair braiding.  Good thing she didn't want it too, as it wasn't cheap!

Sooo excited about it!!

Sitting on the porch wishing for a tropical drink...

Better view of the hair

Sand park right outside our unit

Watching ducks on a cloudy morning. We left the room super early as I wanted to get out before the rain came...and it never did until the evening.  Only sunny and hot and fantastic in the day. 

I realized I have no pictures from the tiny dolphin pool and the pirate ship pool.  The dolphin pool is great if I don't feel like getting wet as it is only about 1 foot deep and i can just sit off to the side while the girls pretend to be dolphins and alligators.  The pirate ship is the exact opposite as it's very interactive for me.  I worry that Rose will fall down the steps leading up to the slide so I end up walking back and forth at the very least, or going down the slide again and again.  I like the main pool as it has the shallow area, as well as the deeper part for swimming.

Another activity we did one morning was the "Critter painting". They got to pick a wooden critter to paint...Paige chose a salamander and Rose chose a shark.  Paige took a very long time as she painted a pattern on hers, and Rose was slightly quicker but put the thickest paint possible on her shark.  We had to leave them at the activity centre to dry while we went swimming as there was no way we could even attempt to get them back to the room with all of our stuff without getting paint all over everything.

The day the conference finished early, we went to downtown Disney when Mike got home.  He was looking forward to picking up more Lego! We ate an early dinner there as we could see the storm clouds coming.  We got back to the car just in time before it started to pour.

Playing with the new Lego before bed: