Saturday, June 07, 2008

Safe travels

It's been a busy couple of days! We flew into Orlando (with no adverse effects-thanks for praying!) at about 1:30 on Thursday and have been going and visiting non-stop ever since. It's been great to see family and cuddle new babies and laugh with everybody again. Yesterday my sister and I took the kids (all seven) to Cocoa Beach and last night went to the Silver Spurs Rodeo in Kissimmee, FL. Yep, the rodeo. It was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. There are some crazy people who like to do weird stuff- hence, ride bucking bulls and try to stay afloat on them for eight seconds. I say afloat because they really seem to be in the air above the bulls. And then the crazy guy gets bucked off the bull and scrambles up to avoid being kicked in the head by the angry bull. Reiterate: kicked in the HEAD by the ANGRY bull. GET UP, absurd, crazy man.

I slept until 8:00 this morning- which is entirely against my nature and will get ready in just a minute to hopefully find a red light saber in the city of Orlando somewhere. I promised my nephew, Cole, that he could have the said item for his birthday and now I cannot find it. Red is the key here. I did see a purple one (the only one I saw) at the local Walmart, but he wants red. MUST FIND RED (monotone-robotic voice).

Anyway, just wanted to give a quick update. More to come later.

5 comments:

Paige M said...

There HAS to be some interesting plane ride stories!

There is a rodeo here in Odenville. We've been wanting to take the kids to see the crazy people too.

Good luck with the light saber.

Missy said...

fun times...rodeos, light sabers, airplanes...Such an interseting life you lead. :)

piklpaper said...

hooray for no airplane pukiness! glad you guys are having a good time :)
-wp

Abbey said...

I heart rodeos!

Kimmipeach@gmail.com said...

try target for the RED light saber. let me know if you need on emaled to you.