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Sadly all vacations must end. Our return home was …better than the trip out… but still not fun in any way.

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After leaving Treasure Island/Clearwater we headed back to home base — Orlando!  Home of Mickey Mouse as well as Donna.  Some of you may not have heard of Mickey Mouse but I’m sure you’ve heard of Donna.

Enough time has passed since we were there and the time that I’m writing this that I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot.  I certainly don’t remember the chronological order of events anymore.

I’m pretty sure this happened the second night of the vacation  and not towards the end but I’m going to post about it now.  It was our first night in a hotel; the Port Orleans Riversie Resort.  Cassie went down with very little fuss (as is typical with her).  In the wee hours of the morning she woke up screaming.  We looked over and she was vomiting over the side of the portable crib. Read the rest of this entry »

On our way back to Orlando from Treasure Island we decided to take a slight detour to see Clearwater Beach.  Donna has been there many times but we hadn’t so we wanted to see what it was all about.  We had considered staying in Clearwater instead of Treasure Island.  You could say we were researching future vacationing possibilities. Read the rest of this entry »

After spending a couple of days in Miami we packed up and headed North to Treasure Island.  Treasure Island is the actual name of a town.  It’s not a theme park or resort.  It’s weird, I know.  It’s just a few miles South of Clearwater Beach.

On the recommendation of a friend we stayed at the Bilmar resort.  Read the rest of this entry »

The second part of our vacation was to spend a couple nights in Miami with Donna.  Read the rest of this entry »

For one of our nights in Miami Donna watched Cassie while Mary and I walked around town. When we got back Cassie was asleep (Donna is an excellent babysitter!) and had left us a note:

Dear Ma Ma and Pa Pa,
While you were out Aunt Donna taught me excellent penmenship.  I wanted to thank you for my excellent day.  You let me go topless in Miami in the best sand box ever.  I really loved scrubbing off Mommy’s skin.  My nap under the palm tree with Da Da was a gift.  Oh yeah, I also really loved my nite with Aunt D.  I clapped all nite and only farted once.  For this great day you gave me I will reward you by saying “raar” on command.

Sincerely,
Cassie Bear

I had expected flying with Cassie to be difficult but it turns out that she did a lot better than I did.  When the plane took off she went to sleep!  It was a long, tiring, and irritating day of travel for me that had nothing to do with Cassie.

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I don’t want to waste our vacation complaining but I must share the bad luck we had while traveling yesterday.

1. Our first flight from ROC to JFK was delayed by about 2 hours.  Read the rest of this entry »