Young Party of Four

We skipped this post last week because we (amazingly) didn't do anything on our bucket list for a full week. So, even though this post says Week 2... nothing was actually done that week. That doesn't mean we weren't really busy. We just didn't mark anything off the bucket list. In the week since then (Friday of last week until Thursday of this week), we did mark off a few things. Warning: Long post ahead! We started on Friday of last week when we decided to take a last minute trip to Disney. We had on our bucket list to go have dole whip at the Polynesian but we didn't plan to go to Disney at that point too because our passes were supposed to be in blackout. Lo and behold, Disney decided to extend our time to visit the parks until the end of June (when they open Toy Story land at Hollywood Studios), so we were able to make one last trip before we blacked out. We decided to do Magic Kingdom. That was a twofold thing. One, because it is the kids' favorite park o...

We did it again! For my third time and Mom and Danielle's second, we tackled the Clearwater Memorial Causeway. And it was no less foreboding this time staring up to it's peak as you round the corner at about .5 miles into the Iron Girl 5k. Saturday we were supposed to go to a friend's kiddo's bday party, but unfortunately there was a time change and we were unable to make it as the time the party was changed to was the same time we had to meet Mom and Danielle in Clearwater for packet pick-up. So, since we had to go to Clearwater anyway, we figured we would go ahead and go to Honeymoon Island State Park. HI is one of our favorite beaches in all of Florida. It is gorgeous and being a state park, is not as crowded as some public beaches. We knew the weather may not cooperate with us and as we got near Tampa, we saw some serious rain clouds. Luckily, the skies cleared as we went closer to the water and when we got to the beach, it was a gorgeous day... with a crazy st...