Day 5 Tuesday – Clearwater Beach

Highway to Clearwater, FL

Feels like you’re ascending the heavens

Clearwater Beach

Clearwater Beach

Our little area

Making sand castles

Notice the Olaf shirt

The lifeguard is so chill

Beach background

Restaurant where we ate

I needed a drink or two after the heat

Appetizers

View from the table

View

Fresh mahi mahi

Grouper sandwich

Crab and grouper salad

Clearwater sidewalk, where they are super nice to pedestrians

It stormed like crazy on our way back to the hotel

Thunderstorms on the water

Day 6 Wednesday – Tampa/New Port Richey

If you’re ever in Tampa, try Hawkeye’s Pizza. Zabiha. New York style meat lovers 28 inch pizza. Best thing I ate on the trip.

At my cousin’s house in New Port Richey.

Everyone was so nice at my cousin’s place. And they let my kids do whatever they wanted.

Clowning around on the bunk beds.

Celebrating my cousin’s birthday

Waiting for cake

Day 7 Thursday – Orlando

Rental town home

Back view

Living room

Kitchen

Stairs

3rd bedroom

View from entry

Disney

Welcome to Disney

Now pay for parking

On the tram to the monorail

On the monorail to the entrance

Waiting for Mickey

Best part of the trip

The giant rodent that started it all

Starting our day

Cinderella’s castle

Tiana and Prince Naveen

Disney movies/characters parade

Little mermaid

Brave

Dragon from Sleeping Beauty

These two again

Mickey up close

Anna from Frozen

Elsa from Frozen

He was the only boy in line. I waited 70 mins in the heat for him to meet this girl. If that’s not good parenting, I don’t know what is.

Minnie Elsa

Disney Ferry to the parking lot

Waiting on the ferry

Disney Ferry

Day 8 Friday – Orlando/Clermont

Picking oranges in Clermont

Downtown Orlando

Best Cuban food in Orlando

Downtown Orlando

Day 9 Saturday – Drive home

Cizar’s, restaurant near Nashville

On the road back to Chicago

Tennessee

Last Stop – in laws place

Made it home, souveniers intact