This Weekend: All Good Things....

SO, in honor of this, our final week (at least in my neck of the woods) before school starts, we took off to Orlando, stayed over one night, then hit Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. It was...fun...but not as much fun as it has been in the past. Sounds crazy I know, but there it is. The night in the hotel meant my husband and I each slept with one child. There was a lot of this:

What is it about hotel beds that makes you want to bounce?

And even more of this:

Only these people look infinitely better than we did that morning.

Which we expect and have no problem with usually (and thought for that matter, that we wouldn't now). BUT we were just away and spent about a week in hotel rooms and another week rotating between family members' houses less than a month ago, so this ended up being one night too many. It sounded a lot better in theory than in practice.

The girls were moody and emotional AND at each other's throats. They aren't even at THAT time of life yet if you know what I mean, but there are moments when I start to wonder anyway. There was a lot of this:

Which meant I did a lot of this:

Then when we ran out of the hotel early the next morning to be at the amusement park right when it opened to hopefully beat the crowds into the Harry Potter part of the park and ran into this:

Add to that the fact that August is probably the worst month in Florida heat-wise than any other month, bar none and you'll understand why it didn't take long for all of us to look like this:



Okay, I'm exaggerrating a wee bit. There was fun this weekend: laughing and great memory/bonding type moments, but the high excitement that usually accompanies this type of escape was definitely missing and I'm pretty sure I know why. I think maybe this family is ready for school and the end of summer. The kids are ready to get back to their friends and my hubby and I are ready to get back to our regular schedules...to schedules in general. I guess all good things really must come to an end, otherwise we won't actually be able to appreciate them.