April Florida Trip

This past April, we traveled to FL so Josh and me could attend a conference in Orlando. I never thought we'd be going to the same conference since I specialize in older adults and Josh went into peds ophthalmology, but with my current position I get to be concerned about all vision related conditions. Since the conference was so close to home and I knew Josh wanted to attend we made plans to go together. This meant Luke got to spend some quality time with Nana and Papa while mommy and daddy enjoyed a couple of days together in Orlando. The first day of the conference was over for us before noon so we headed out to the boardwalk by the Swan and Dolphin resorts (where the conference was, but not where we stayed!). You could see Epcot from there and we ate lunch the next day at the ESPN zone restaurant (which I've read recently that they are closing this chain).



Since we couldn't check into our hotel yet, we went to Downtown Disney and walked around. Josh had never eaten at a Rain Forest Cafe, and even though we didn't have our kid with us, we had lunch there. It ended up being good that Luke wasn't with us. Look how close we sat to this mechanical elephant, I think Luke would have freaked.


Our trip to Orlando included a visit to my good friend Vim so we could see her adorable daughters! Here is Josh with Violet (she's about 5 months younger than Luke so we were sad to not have Luke with us) and one of me with Violet and Vim holding a newborn Natalie. So glad we got to visit with you guys while we were in Orlando!!



We finished off our evening with a trip to Universal Studios City Walk. We intended to eat at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, but decided to walk around a bit first. We found our way to NBA City and of course had to look around. By this point I was starving, and still in my first trimester which meant "I NEED TO EAT NOW!" so we dined at NBA City. The food was ok, but both of us wished we had eaten at Bubba Gump.

More about our trip to FL next!