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Jun. 20th, 2010 09:16 amBack home after spending the week down in Orlando with my brother & his family, and my sister and her daughter. The ratio of four adults to three children under the age of ten worked out well, ensuring that there was always at least one adult who could be persuaded to go to the pool, catch the girls as they came off the water slide, or stand in line in the hot sun for the Dumbo ride.
This was the first time all of us had gotten together, and my niece Mary's first trip to the east coast. Being a mountain girl, it was her first time at sea level, so naturally on one of the days we headed to Cocoa Beach so she could play in the ocean.
Orlando was brutally hot and humid. It's also the rainy season, which we hadn't figured into our plans-- each day featured at least one thunderstorm, including one vicious storm that trapped us for an hour and a half in a small portico next to the Pirates ride.
We'd rented a condo near Disneyworld which had plenty of space but the internet access was less than stellar. Their ads promised wi-fi, but the only wi-fi was in the bar or across the street in the lobby, and the wired internet in the condo was down more than it was up. At peak demand times it was slower than carving messages via stone tablet.
The condo did have a great pool, including a bar, but both times I sat down and ordered a Land Shark beer, a crisis interrupted me before I could drink more than half of it.
Other trip highlights included getting back to the condo in time for Nat to catch Uruguay's victory over South Africa in the World Cup. Showing my team spirit, I wore the t-shirt I'd bought on my trip to Uruguay while Nat cast envious glances and bemoaned her own lack of logo gear.
Everyone had a great time. The kids got along, and the three Bray siblings scandalized them and Nat with tales of our misdeeds as children. Including at least one story that I'm sure will come back to haunt my brother. I'm not an amusement park person-- I dislike crowds and rides make me motion sick, but I had fun because the girls were having fun.
Now I'm back home, cleaning up email, and getting ready to get together with fellow ur-editor Joshua to go over the final manuscript. Then, of course, there's laundry, grocery shopping, and a busy workweek to get ready for.
If anything happened on LJ last week, assume that I've missed it, since there's no way I'm going to catch up.
This was the first time all of us had gotten together, and my niece Mary's first trip to the east coast. Being a mountain girl, it was her first time at sea level, so naturally on one of the days we headed to Cocoa Beach so she could play in the ocean.
Orlando was brutally hot and humid. It's also the rainy season, which we hadn't figured into our plans-- each day featured at least one thunderstorm, including one vicious storm that trapped us for an hour and a half in a small portico next to the Pirates ride.
We'd rented a condo near Disneyworld which had plenty of space but the internet access was less than stellar. Their ads promised wi-fi, but the only wi-fi was in the bar or across the street in the lobby, and the wired internet in the condo was down more than it was up. At peak demand times it was slower than carving messages via stone tablet.
The condo did have a great pool, including a bar, but both times I sat down and ordered a Land Shark beer, a crisis interrupted me before I could drink more than half of it.
Other trip highlights included getting back to the condo in time for Nat to catch Uruguay's victory over South Africa in the World Cup. Showing my team spirit, I wore the t-shirt I'd bought on my trip to Uruguay while Nat cast envious glances and bemoaned her own lack of logo gear.
Everyone had a great time. The kids got along, and the three Bray siblings scandalized them and Nat with tales of our misdeeds as children. Including at least one story that I'm sure will come back to haunt my brother. I'm not an amusement park person-- I dislike crowds and rides make me motion sick, but I had fun because the girls were having fun.
Now I'm back home, cleaning up email, and getting ready to get together with fellow ur-editor Joshua to go over the final manuscript. Then, of course, there's laundry, grocery shopping, and a busy workweek to get ready for.
If anything happened on LJ last week, assume that I've missed it, since there's no way I'm going to catch up.