Cypress Gardens

We went to Cypress Gardens one day while we were in Tampa. Jeff's sister, Heather came with us. We had so much fun. It was a little warm, but not too bad. We had seen on a previous trip there that they had something called the Belle for a Day program where little girls could dress up like a Southern Belle (complete with a hoop skirt!) and walk around the park for a couple hours getting pictures and having fun. It sounded like something Kaylin and Annlee would love, so we let them do that. I have SO many pictures of them - it was really hard to pick out just a few to post here. (Did you know you can click on the pictures and see them really big? I only recently figures that out and it makes these look so beautiful!) Anyway, these are my favorites of the bunch. There are also some pictures of us riding the rides after they took the dresses off. Maryella even rode her first roller coaster and LOVED it! She kept saying, "I want more" when it was done. We rode it 3 times in a row. She would have gone all day, but we wanted to get in a few more rides before leaving.