Tropical Paradise

I am the newest fan of Florida vacations. I realize how much I love tropical places and even though it's can't do a thing with your hair humid it's perfect for the lay under an umbrella by the pool and drink strawberry daiquiris vacation. Perfect!

We loved every second!

Here are pictures...with commentary of course.

Hardest part was leaving this cute face behind.



Airplane rides...I love 'em...and I'm loving the new movies while you fly idea...I feel like a kid in a minivan on a trip to SLC.


I feel totally spoiled with the hotels they put us in. The Waldorf was absolutely no exception. It was breathtaking.


Even cupcakes to welcome us....score!


First day we went touring. We went to the Tiffany stained glass museum. Sounds lame but oh no folks it was in.credible. Found a picture online for you. Imagine every penny sized piece of glass perfectly placed. People just don't do things like this anymore.



Outside the Morse Museum.


Next was a boat tour on three separate lakes connected by small canals where HUGE homes have the most incredible backyard views. They all have small boat houses that are mini versions of their homes. Totally cool. We saw a home Tom Hanks lived in and even the home THE Mr. Rogers lived in. I totally get...it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood because it is.

Biggest home was 23,000 square feet. Lots alone are $2 Million. I know. Seriously.

Can you imagine waking up to this everyday?





I totally have a thing for dessert and my favorite being anything raspberry and chocolate and at our yummy French restaurant there was this delectable yummy-ness!


Hi Vickie! One of my best childhood friends lived 30 minutes from our hotel and when she heard I was coming she wanted to meet up. So she brought her adorable family and we visited by the pool while the little kiddos swam.
Loved seeing her!


A full day of...


Being total dorks in our 3D glasses before Spiderman.


My favorite ride...Rip saw falls






And we did...like 'ring out your socks' wet. Total blast!


Of course the much anticipated Harry Potter that is every bit as awesome as we heard.


...and the butter beer...oh the butter beer. Wow. Never heard of it? It's like a rootbeer slush with butterscotch cream on top...brilliant people...brilliant.


I even braved The Hulk. It was um...intense is a good word.

It took me a good half hour to find my stomach afterwards.

I'm convinced that the people we were with are some of the coolest people on planet earth.

We kept each other out until wee hours of the morning taking full advantage of every hour we had away.

It was just purely perfect.

My blog idols!

You know from previous posts (which I deleted after the contest was over...why in the heck did I do that?) about my favorite blogs and well let's just say it....my decorating addiction. Well after the contest winner was chosen (obviously I didn't win) and I decided to breathe again I asked Mandi what it would take to get her to come to Santa Clara and help me with my house anyway and she actually wrote me back and said they would put together a Girl's Night Out with Brooke too!

Well that night just happened! And it was so much fun!!!!! I seriously didn't get any good pictures and I was lucky enough to have people with awesome cameras taking some.
So you get to go HERE & HERE to see all the fun.

A day I will not be forgetting any time soon!!! If you don't know my girls you MUST meet them.They were absolutely as darling in person as I imagined them to be. We will be seeing much more of each other very soon :) Yay! for me.

Brooke from All Things Thrifty
Mandi from Vintage Revivals.

Despite other terribly emotional things going on in my life right now I SO needed some time to focus on something I love so much and to meet girls that I adore!

They totally made the sunshine again and I feel so renewed.