Edens Broken Femur Update, Vacation Redo to Vero Beach (Long with Pics)

[Geyser Gazer]

First of all, I want to thank all of you who's thoughts and prayers comforted us last Fall. As you may remember, my 9 year old daughter fell out of a tree and broke her femur the day before we were to fly out to:

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Enroute to our true home away from home:

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Instead, we spent 32 days in the pediatric ward in traction:
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Followed by 6 weeks in a body cast:
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Needless to say, we had plenty of time to plan our next trip to another one of our favorite places:
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We arrived late Sunday morning before Memorial Day and our 2 bedroom lockoff was initially not ready. We we opted for lunch overlooking the Atlantic from the Green Cabin Room deck. ( I highly recommend the 4 cheese flatbread with garlic, tomatoes, and spinach.) With our room still not ready, we opt to for swimsuits and end up rummaging through our luggage in the parking garage.

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Enter Georgette, cast member extra ordinaire. Though hundreds of feet away, Georgette is concerned about this family seemingly making their home in the parking garage. “I think I can help you” she exclaims. After a few walkie talkie moments she shares with us that our room is almost done but the previous guests were kind enough to leave it need of some serious carpet steam cleaning. She then made way for us to unload and change in our room as long as we were ok with the fans blowing the floors dry. OK?.. we were ecstatic that she was allowing us to get in our room early despite feeling some shame regarding the previous DVC occupants. Georgette continued to look after us throughout our stay including teaching the girls to make towel animals.

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We headed straight for the beach armed with our cooler, sunshade, inflatable boogie boards and chairs.
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Our typical day revolved around early morning walks on the beach

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or just sleeping in,
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early afternoons at the pool,
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late afternoons on the beach,
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and evenings back at the villa.
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We had one morning that resembled a lush tropical rain forest

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but by afternoon the sun was shining and the waves were awesome.
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I was the chef for the week so we enjoyed chicken salad, shrimp cocktail, seafood quesadilas, guacamole, seafood linguine, crab leg dinners and key lime pie.. Mom and Dad treated us to a nice evening of yet more seafood at Captian Hirams one evening .

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(Now that were back in Indiana, I’m think I’m about ready for a thick steak).

The girls had fun at the campfire one night
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and still sing out “ I cant... my back aches, the sun’s to bright, my bootie shakes from left to right”...Guess you had to be there.

They also they had a blast making friends with Hanna from Kansas.
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The trio boogie boarded, swam, and built sand castles together before having to share goodbye hugs.

We had a great boogie boarding, shell finding, water sliding, sun rising, over eating, over sleeping time hanging out with each other.



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We are grateful to God in who’s creation we reveled and in whose Grace we healed .

[WebmasterDoc]

Thanks for the wonderful photos!


... from another Hoosier! :)

[floridafam]

Wow. I hope she is feeling better after everything you have been through.

Your pictures are beautiful.

We were there Jun 1-Jun 4 and my son met a boy from Kansas.

I'm glad you were able to have a relaxing trip. :thumbsup2

[Granny]

GG...I think I missed that sad story about your daughter while I was on "hiatus". Thanks for a wonderful, and inspiring, trip report. You are definitely the type of person who knows how to "smell the roses". :thumbsup2

[lisareniff]

Lovely trip report! Thanks for sharing

[Muushka]

I only have 1 comment about your trip report:

AWESOME !!!


Thank you for sharing with all of us, I enjoyed reading it and I really enjoyed looking at the pictures!! :thumbsup2

PS I am glad that your daughter is healed!

[bobbiwoz]

Beautiful pictues and a great narrative! Thanks!!

Bobbi :goodvibes

[MonkeyPants]

place looks awesome, thanks for the report

[Lenc324]

That was a great report :thumbsup2 Leaving Sunday for 4 days at VB first trip home. :yay:

[CRSNDSNY]

Great pics, BEAUTIFUL family!

[Divamomto3]

Absolutely awesome trip report and pictures. I can't believe what your daughter had to go through. VERY scary. Glad you had a great time in Vero Beach!

[jakenjess]

I'm so sorry for what happened to your DD! Your pictures are beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing them. They make me want to go back to Vero!!

[byoung]

Thanks for the great photos.

[calypso*a*go-go]

All's well that ends well!!! Thanks for a great trip report...sounds like you all deserved the best vacation ever. :thumbsup2

[Disney1fan2002]

Your daughters are GORGEOUS!

I am sorry that last year was so rough, but your DD look like she made the best of it. :sunny:

Thank you so much for the pics. We will be there 2 weeks from TODAY! Our 1st trip to Vero. My DS10 will love the pic of one of the girls coming off a wave on the boogie board. My DS gets so frustrated, because we don't get big waves around here. He will LOVE that pic!

You make me want to go start packing NOW! LOL :cheer2: :cool1:

[Disney1fan2002]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i141/ronbrack/ShoolsoutVeroBeachResort2006052.jpg

Am I seeing things, or is that a Mickey shaped sun?

[greenban]

Thank you!

I'm so glad your DD is doing better!

Wonderful photos and inspirational story, reminding us of what really is important!

-Tony

[Geyser Gazer]

Disney1fan2002,

I too see what you see,
and there does appear to be,
a rather large, and early rising,
shining solar Mickey.