Stalzer/Obele Family Blog

We just got up and are getting ready to drive the Kennedy. The boys are still asleep and we finished preparing our “Car Breakfast” (some bagels, orange juice, etc.) Helga and I got two of these gigantic coffee mugs (1/2 Liter) and made some Hazelnut coffee for the drive.

Space shuttle is still “go”. No technical issues, the tanks are getting filled with oxygen / hydrogen. However, there is only a 30 percent possibility for the launch at 2:45PM EST. The shuttle has a ten minute window for the launch. So, we’ll see, what’s going to happen.

Today was Maxis 5th birthday. We spend a wonderful time together. Pool, breakfast, Magic Kingdom, excellent dinner - surprise birthday cake (thanks to Susan and Alan), and, and, and…
Now we are all exhausted, Felix and the birthday boy actually fell into bed and were fast asleep when I came back up to their room to pick out some clothes for tomorrow.
We will report about everything we did today in detail tomorrow, hopefully after the Shuttle Launch. Tomorrow we need to get up really, really early as we have to be at Kennedy Space Center at 8 am (for a Launch scheduled at 2:45pm ?!?).

In the late afternoon we went to Disney Marketplace. The boys wanted to try out the back seats of the Jeep.

Behind the driver there are actually two rows of seats and, after having tried the real backseats the boys wanted to try out the very last row.

After we arrived at Disney Marketplace the first stop was at the Lego shop. Max was allowed to pick out something for his birthday and Felix also wanted something small.

After several rounds through the shop we decided to first look at some of the other shops.
On the way to Virgin Records is the Harley Store.

Aunt Gabi would be proud of her two nephews: Max climed - all be himself - on this beautiful Harley.

Then Felix tried it out and also Thomas could not resist.

Max was already trying to familiarize himself with the bike and asked Thomas all sort of questions - how do you go fast, what is that thing for, …

After that the guys found a race car and all three were excited.
We had a special order request from two dear friends in Swizerland (hi Peter and Mike) - we should try and find all dvds we could find from the "Odd Couple". At Virgin Records this is pretty easy. They actually had 5 DVDs - movie and series - Peter and Mike should be in heaven.
After that exhausting hunt, we had two pretty jetlagged guys and decided to stop for a coffee and some lemonade.

Back at the Logo shop, Max found a great Lego race car and Felix picked out a helicopter.

Then we finally went home for some real shopping (= get Sushi). On the way out Felix and Max had to try out a water game with Stich.

When we left the parking lot we actually saw a Segway - Thomas tried one of those last year in Epcot.
Some shopping and some cooking and we finally could sit down and have some excellent salat. Felix and Max ordered Dad’s famous "Chicken in Peanutbutter sauce with Pasta" and I j
ust wanted SUSHI. Ah, finally - it was delicious!!!

Felix and Max were very tired and wanted to go to bed. Thomas and I were also tired, but we wanted to prepare some deco for Maxis birthday tomorrow. Thanks to Susan and Allan, the owners of this wonderful villa, there was a machine for inflating water toys - which also worked well for balloons.

It was well past midnight when Thomas and I finally went to bed - happy, but quite tired after a wonderful first vacation day.