Gobles Visit - Amanda, Ryan and Graydon

December 10th, late Friday evening, the Gobles arrived for a brief weekend visit. Their main goal was to check on their new house's construction and to make sure everything looked good and was progressing as planned. It was also a beautiful weekend for their visit so we made sure to plan some outside fun while they were in town. 

The kids played outside quite a bit with Graydon. Paige got some of her younger neighborhood friends together and they all ran around on the golf course and up and down the street together. Connor played football with Paige, Graydon, and Millie. 

We went out to Rivertown to check on the Goble's home and it looked pretty good, although it sounds like the builder hasn't made a ton of progress lately.

Paige and I have found a nearby Ramen restaurant and went with Ryan on Saturday evening. We enjoyed some ramen, dumplings, and an Asian pancake dessert.

Sunday evening we went to Old St. Augustine for dinner at A1A Ale Works Restaurant & Taproom and then we took a short golf cart ride around downtown to see all the Christmas lights. 

Magic Kingdom - Christmas Visit 2021

 

This past weekend we decided to take a quick trip to Orlando on Saturday and went to the Magic Kingdom. We went to Disney World earlier in the year but went to all the parks except for Magic Kingdom. We like to go to the park when it's decorated for Halloween and Christmas and we were excited to go on a weekend that was supposed to be nice and cool. We drove in on Saturday morning and stopped at Uno's for lunch before heading to the park. We had to go to a different one that normal since the one closest to Disney is permanently closed as there's a new road going right through where it used to be. 

At the park, we tried to make sense of the new phone app and the Genie system. It was confusing and buggy, also cost $15 extra per person for the Genie plus option. After our first ride, somehow Connor's account didn't get checked in right and we had to wait in a line with a customer service person to figure it out. On our next ride they wouldn't let us through and contradicted what the customer service person told us. We stood our ground and eventually it worked out, but super painful process especially after paying extra for it.

Overall it was a great day at the park. We got a little hot and it was most crowded in the early afternoon hours but it eventually cooled off and was pleasant. We pretty much rode everything we'd hoped to, except for Space Mountain which appeared to be closed for maintenance. We stayed pretty late, almost to closing time, before heading to the hotel. Sunday morning we slept in and drove home, nice short visit!

On the way home I had everyone list off three of their favorite parts from our visit, in no particular order. Connor wrote them down so I could put them on the blog.

Shawn

1. Cinnamon roll
2. Splash Mountain with Paige
3. Family time

Andrea

1. Snow White 
2. Uno’s
3. Thunder mountain

Paige

1. Food
2. Splash mountain with dad
3. Family time

Connor

1. Turkey leg
2. Cinnamon roll
3. Pretzel

Merry Christmas!

Millie Mae's First Birthday

 

Today is Millie Mae's birthday! She got her haircut last week and posed so nicely for a pic by the pool. She's been a very good dog lately and we all love her so much, hard to believe she's already one!