For Alex's 10th birthday we took him to Florida. It just worked out that we got great tickets and Carl had to be down there for the Army anyway so they paid for the hotel. He got a five day pass free for the military. He was able to buy up to 5 other 5 day passes for only $99 each. That is a great deal for Disney. We ended up paying a little bit more for the fun package which enabled us to go to the Disney Quest at Downtown Disney. It is a five story arcade. It was Alex's favorite place to go so I am glad we paid a little extra. While Carl was at meetings all day Alex and I explored all the parks. This was a great week because it was just time with Alex and we were able to work on some things he had been struggling with. One of his problems is a fear of new situations. He was really out of his comfort zone on this trip because everything was new. He did a great job and only had two really bad outbursts. One of the places I made him go (after three tries) was the T_Rex restaurant at Downtown Disney. Imagine the Rain forest Cafe only with dinosaurs and much louder. It was very loud with animatronic dinosaurs everywhere. We sat in the ice cave where it was not so loud and he fell in love with it. He even did okay when the meteor shower began and all the dinosaurs started being really loud and the ice cave went from blue to red with lots of thunder and lightening. We ended up going back again with Carl because he was unable to join us the first time. It was great. I will write about more of our adventures in Florida in another blog.
