Florida day 7: We started packing up and hit the pool one last time. Then we went to MomMom’s 88th birthday dinner at Benihana. The kids LOVED watching the cooking. Blade must have said 4 times “This is AWESOME!”, Skye wanted to take the cook home with her and Alex and Chloe were mesmerized. All the kids loved the onion volcano and Alex ate his ice cream with chop sticks. Best of all, they actually ate the food and I got to eat mine in relative peace.

Florida day 8: Uneventful trip home. The kids were torn about whether they missed home or whether they wanted to stay in Florida forever. Mostly they wanted to stay. Alex asked if we could buy the “rentable house” (as he called it) and live there.