Some happiness in November

Even though this November brought with it horrible sadness, it also had some happy times. Getting a chance for the kids to see their cousins was a much needed treat. My sister Robin had the idea, that once we started to head back to Pensacola, they would drive along with us and maybe we could take a detour through Savannah and Orlando. These pictures are totally out of sequence, but here are some of the highlights of the trip south. At a Mexican Restaurant a balloon man made Adeline a princess crown. Here we are starting the 7 hour trip back home from Disney.

While Robin was able to get free media tickets for her and Mark to Disney for one day, we used our military ID's to get 4 tickets to SeaWorld instead. So, we split off for the day and had fun as a family seeing Shamu, letting him soak us at the 12:00 show with icy cold water and then sitting in wet jeans for the car ride home to Pensacola. No one wanted to sit in the "Soak Zone" since why would they?, it's November and it's cold. But, they were awesome seats and we lived a little.

The man controlling the carousel was an old crotchety man who yelled at me for taking pictures and then forced me to wear MY seatbelt on the ride so I wouldn't fall off and break my head open. Then the woman behind me got up while the ride was slowing down, so he came over the loud speaker yelling at her to SIT DOWN or he'd kick her off.

In Savannah at one of the many city squares. The 2 cousins crammed together for a ride since their little legs were so tired. Marjorie was almost bit by a homeless man's dog and I saw a Kevin Spacey lookalike from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

The Polar Express Arctic Experience. It smelled like pine trees in this room, the next room smelled like sugar cookies.

We stopped at Lady and Sons in Savannah, that is Paula Deen's signature restaurant. We needed 10 people in our party to make a reservation, so we lied and said we had 10. Then just as we checked in at 2pm, we snagged a mother and son from Indiana that were looking for a seat, to sit at the end of our table and join us. Here is Marjorie and Mark

We got her buffet and boy was the fried chicken and squash casserole good. Then we all got the gooey butter cakes for dessert.

Our newst niece little Vivian

Robin's last day in Pensacola, I bought Marjorie and Adeline( 1 year apart) matching dresses and fixed their hair the same. We went to the beach, since the nieces have never been to the ocean yet and made sandcastles.