Bye-bye Key West and Kids

Vacation can be exhausting! Made our way back from Key West after four nights.  Sent dogs to doggie day camp for three of those nights.  It was just too much.  The kids were great, but didn't really have time for the dogs and kids.  Key West is definitely geared towards adults (think Bourbon St.).  It was beautiful and we had a great time at the Butterfly Conservatory and the Key West Aquarium, but if we make another trip to the keys I will be researching more "family friendly" locales.  On the way back we stayed a night in Florida City, which is right on the tip after you leave the keys.  We took the tollway the next day to head back towards Orlando to drop off Kara and Matthew.  The tollway cost about $30. We went ahead and got the EZ pass (they call it a SunPass and it's $5) at CVS so we wouldn't have to stop and pay tolls.  This was waaaaayyy better than driving through Miami.  It took us over 9 hours to get from Miami to Key West.  We did stop to eat, and get a much needed adult beverage, but jeez you just wouldn't think it was that far.  We checked in to Wekiva River RV resort, set up RV and brought Kara and Matthew home.  We met up with them for dinner along with Shane and Braedon at Joe's Crab Shack in Orlando.  The area we were in was actually Sanford but the shirts at Joe's said Orlando.  It's about 15 min away for Disney. It was great seeing Clay with all of his kids and we had a really good time, but I was glad it was only going to be Clay, Zeb, and I in the camper that night.  Now if we would have known what we knew before our trip we would have just stayed a week at the Wekiva River RV resort.  This place was perfect for families.  It had an inlet of the river that was done kind of like city park in Austin.  The sides were concrete with ladder access except for a large beach access part.  They had a three story water slide and a huge waterfall in the middle which Zeb was fascinated by.  This place had a heated pool, game room with pool tables, huge playground.  It was perfect.  We could have saved a ton of money. We went to Key West because I was born there and Clay always wanted to go. So now we've can say we did it, but next time we visit Kara we will stay right down the road.  We actually stayed at WRRVP for two nights.  I was exhausted and could not hardly bear the thought of loading up the next morning and heading out.  Zeb was getting a bit fussy himself (he was probably just imitating his mama).  So after two nights we got a fairly early start and headed towards Pensacola and Aunt Ginger and Larry.