Traveling Together - Last Day of the Tournament

Curly joined Baby Doll and me for the last day of the tournament. She played well and they won the first match.

Then they lost their second one and suddenly, the tournament was over. Tears and hugs and all after that.

We met up later with our team family for lunch at Ford's Garage. The food was yummy! The decor was fun and different. The bathroom was my favorite.

Ford's Garage was in the middle of the Facory Outlet stores. So after lunch, we decided to look around. I realized this could be a very good place for Curly to buy shoes for his mission. We looked in several stores and we finally found a pair of black ones at Cole Haan.

Can I just say the clouds are amazingly beautiful in Florida?

We made our way back to the condo, changed into our swimming suits and headed for the play area. Some of the kids headed for the water slides while Curly, Sport, and I stopped for a game of mini golf.

Then we all went to the pool.

Ok, not quite all, but most of us.

Then it was back to the room for a late supper of crockpot pork tacos that despite my limited spices were really yummy. Some of us stayed up late and watched Starsky & Hutch.

Tomorrow? Universal Epic!!

Traveling Together - Dezerland Park

So, normally for these huge volleyball tournaments, they assign teams to the am wave (8-2) or the pm wave (3-10). We were assigned to am a week or so before the tournament began.

Unfortunately, we were reassigned to pm wave for Tuesday. 

I had already bought tickets for the 6 of us to hang out at Dezerland Park, so the kids dropped us at the Convention Center and they continued to follow our original plan.

Baby Doll had a great tournament day! She always amazes me with how good she really is!

Before the games, we did a lot of this.

And this...

Don't even get me started talking about how many floods we've cleaned up!!!

The kids graciouly shared about a million pics showing how much fun they had at Dezerland Park...just sharing a few.

Yes! We are having fun without you, Mom...

Aren't we, Sport?

Traveling Together - Daytona Raceway

I love volleyball, but I do have a little fomo about all the fun things the kids are doing. So they all dropped us off at the Convention Center and they took off for a tour of the Daytona Speedway. I will let Dog Walker add some pics later.

This is my Baby Doll playing some awesome volleyball.

After the kids picked us up, Curly treated us to BJ's. The food was awesome, especially the pizookies.

Then we decided to give the airboat one more chance. This time, we got there with minutes to spare. They loaded us on the boat and we rode for about 9 minutes total. Lightening again.

We did see some wildlife, but no alligators.

I arranged for a refund.

We headed for the hotel. It was still early, so Baby Doll, Dog Walker, and I went swimming with Bossy's boys and Twizlet. Of course, they found a ball and played water volleyball!

We stayed in the pool until almost 11. Baby Doll's games had changed to the pm wave for tomorrow so we don't have to be there until 3:00.

Thank goodness! 

Except now we have to miss another fun outing...

Traveling Together - Winter Garden

It almost seemed like I didn't sleep...oh wait...I didn't!!

Sunday morning at 7:00am was our check-in time for the tournament. Scout and Curly came with Baby Doll and me and we left at 6 to get to the Convention Center.

Traffic was crazy!!

They have at least 150 courts set up in the Convention Center. People cheering and yelling; balls bouncing and leaving their own courts. Scout got hit in the face during warmups.

Baby Doll's team won one of the 3 matches they played.

After the games were over, we headed out to Boggy Creek to do an Airboat ride. It was the six of us and both of Baby Doll's coaches. We got there way early. So they let us wander around.

Lightening eventually canceled the airboat ride. So we went out to dinner with the coaches.

They wanted to go to a mini-golf place. The food was really good.

Sport bought us all ice cream. It was even better!