Shopping and Packing

Wednesday 25 April

After breakfast and a swim we prepared for a day of shopping today. Everyone has a list so it’s off to Florida mall. We split up so that we could each shop for different things. The time flew and soon it was lunch time and our first meet up. The kids were excited about things they had seen and purchased, particularly Claire whose first stop was the Disney Shop where she purchased Pua the pig from the movie Moana. We had tried to purchase this at Magic Kingdom but all were sold out, so there was much excitement when we found one today. Lilly found the Cheshire Cat, from Alice In Wonderland and Hugh got Wizard Mickey from Fantasia. After lunch it was more shopping, Ma and Lilly, Claire and Mum, Dad and Hugh and pa with all of us at some stage. The bags piled up as the purchases grew and finally we were all ready to go. Some great purchases were made and the American economy survives again.

We made it home all ready for a swim and some dinner before Joanne and Tristram finished their packing ready for an early flight tomorrow morning through to Los Angeles.

April 26

4 am we were all up and on the road to the airport. Joanne and family and numerous bags flying to LA. We headed back to our Accommodation for a couple of hours sleep before packing some of our bags and working out what we still needed to purchase before we head back to LA tomorrow and then on to Melbourne.

We have had a fantastic holiday with some memorable times, some wonderful sayings from all the children and some great experiences and many, many “firsts” had by all! The last five weeks will be talked about for many years to come.