April 25th Adventures

We slept in a bit today-me until 730am and the gang until 8.

We got ready and went across the road to McDonalds for breakkie. I had the pancakes kids' meal. Keturah had the fruit, nut and yogurt, while Brooke and Kevin had egg mcmuffins...their coffee was pretty disgusting.

We the hit the highway to go to Cocoa Beach, which is about 45 mins from Kissimmee.

We stopped for gas and it cost only 40 dollars to fill up--about 1/2 what our van at home costs---but then it's US dollars too!

We had to go on this toll highway which cost us 75 cents and then a little while later down the road it was another 75 cents and a little farther down it was 1.25---crazy! The roads were in pretty crappy shape for being toll roads!

We got to Cocoa Beach around 11am and found a parking area, which cost 5.00 to park. Later we found out we could have parked for free down the road a bit!

We walked down the beach and collected some seashells and the girls played in the sand. We saw a jellyfish (we think it was) dead on the beach. We didn't touch it though, just in case!

We stayed only about 2hours due to the sun and the fact that Kevin and I were getting headaches from the sun...of course, we don't have hats to wear! We didn't come prepared at all, as we were also getting thirsty and hungry and didn't bring anything to eat or drink.

The beach was really nice and sunny and breezy too. Kevin, Brooke and Keturah got sunburned pretty bad because they were wearing their bathing suits and didn't put sunscreen on their backs.

We drove over to Merritt Island, where the Kennedy Space Center is, but the girls didn't want to go at all. WE couldn't even bribe them into going :-)

So, we finally found a Burger King to eat lunch and had burgers and chicken fries and even pie for dessert because we were fairly hungry at this point (2pm).

We then drove back to the hotel and headed down to the pool. I didn't want to swim because of my heat rash on my neck and the whole pool is in the sun. So I sat in the shade while they swam I read a book and listened to my iPod, mostly in the shade. My feet were in the sun and they even got burned!

We stayed at the pool for about 1.5 hrs and got ready and went to Walmart. Brooke wanted to return a CD she had bought.

We then went out for supper. We couldn't decide on where to eat...We all wanted different food, so Keturah and Kevin ate at a Chinese Buffet and Brooke and I ate at an Italian Buffet. We had pizza, pasta, salads and dessert. It was pretty good for 4.79/person! Kevin said there's wasn't that great, but Keturah liked it. OH yeah, the buffets were in the same plaza, so we were just 2 stores away from each other!

We came back to the hotel and packed up our bags--making sure everything fit!

Kevin and and the girls are gone for a quick swim, so I stayed here to write this up so I won't forget!

We hope to go to MGM Studios tomorrow so we can use up our Disney pass.