Wet and Wild Weekend

Wednesday night we left for the Haven and Orlando to visit family.  Craig also had a business meeting in Orlando, so I stayed with Craig's aunt and uncle and the kids on Thursday.  The visit was great, but the weather was not.  We think we had a tornado come through.  We were fine, but there was definite damage around the neighborhood, hail and serious rain.  We were also without power for about 15 hours, so we played in the dark and ate out that night with Craig's aunt, uncle and cousins.  We LOVE spending time with them and they are such a blessing to us as Christian family!

We had our short visit with them and headed to Orlando on Friday to visit Craig's dad and family.  We did the usual - hung out, played, ate, relaxed.  It was a nice trip.  We went to a local park and Jack got in a little golf practice in Craig's dad's backyard.





We also got a room at the Gaylord Palms - wow!  The hotel is HUGE!  It is Florida themed, so they had a Key West area with a huge boat in the atrium in water, a replica of the fort in St. Augustine and an Everglades section that had alligators.



They also had a kids pool and toddler area.  The pool had a water slide in the shape of an octopus that went into the big pool.  Kate and Jack both went with me on my lap.  Kate loved it and Jack liked it.  Kate did it about 3 times.  The toddler area's water was freezing, but it was fun to run around and watch the kids go under the waterfall.  Check out Jack and Kate's faces in some of these.





Even Craig got in on the action, fully clothed!  Dedication.


We drove back Sunday and headed straight to the church.  We capped off the weekend catching the last performance of "Captive" at our church.  The drama is set in a Vietnam-type era in which a "rebel" leads many against another (the world).  The rebel is represented as Jesus Christ who saves us from the captivity of this world and can free us from our sin.  It was wonderful.  And one guard in particular, my dad, had an Oscar-worthy performance!