Rupprecht Blog: May 2008

We spent May 5-12 in Orlando for our family vacation. We had a GREAT time! We stayed at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club and spent several days at the various Disney parks. We even took a day and drove to Daytona Beach for a day at the ocean.

A typical day consisted of going to a park, coming home, 2-hour nap, and then a few hours at the pool. Repeat. 6 times. We couldn't have picked a better week to go; we walked up to literally every ride. The first 2 weeks in May falls between Spring Breaks and the end of school. 90 degrees and sunny every day. We had to split up the family on the flights as we had frequent flier miles on Delta and Southwest had the best fares, so mom and Emilie took Delta and the rest of us flew Southwest. Fortunately I was able to book the flights so we arrived close together time-wise.

Enjoy the pictures! Click on picture for larger size photo...

Eating breakfast on the hotel balcony; 75 degrees and beautiful!

Family @ Magic Kingdom...did I mention there were NO lines?

Emilie @ airport...she is excited!

Emilie in hotel pool...she would live in the pool if she could!

Did I mention that they love water? This is 5 minutes after check-in.

Maddie jumping to Dad.

Maddie in pool.

More pool.

Not sure when this was...the pool must have been closed.

Day 1...boat ride to Magic Kingdom!

Splash Mountain 2008. Dad gets really excited on this ride.

Splash Mountain 2004. Excited again!

Splash Mountain 2001. Our friend Steph Bullock asked who the special needs
guy was in the back...

Dino Ride. I didn't want to buy the photo, so I took this picture as our
photo came up on the monitor. Poor Em was scared on this one!

Mom and Emilie

This is us waiting for the tram at like 11:30PM.
Emilie is baked and not happy!

Family

Girls

Horse show

Justine jumping rope on Main Street

Justine

Emilie & Madelyn

Maddie driving the car. This is the ride that has the rail that you drive
down. She banged the car back & forth all the way around. My
head was pounding after this ride!