Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Day 1: Magic Kingdom
Buie and Granny getting ready for take off on the Dumbo ride. First ride and not sure what he's getting into.
Mason and Hudson, flying high in the sky.
The castle was so pretty at night in all it's different colors.

The boys got captured by Zurg after one of our favorite rides, the Toy Story shooting ride. (There was one at Magic Kingdom and a better/newer one at Hollywood Studios)

Day 2: Hollywood Studios
Here they are getting ready to take on their second day. Hollywood studios by far had the best ride of all 4 parks, Toy Story interactive game where you ride through and get to shoot at things (like plates, balloons, rings all for points against your riding partner).
To infinity and beyond! One of our favorite activities was to see the characters and get their autograph. This was after my brother and 2 sister in laws took my sweet Mason on the Tower of Terror! Seriously, if you have been on this you know how scary this is for an adult much less a 5 year old. I think this ruined him for the rest of the trip. I can't believe he did not cry or soil himself. It's amazing what kids will do for other parents. He kept asking before we got on any more rides, "is it going to be dark, fast or am I going to get sprayed with water?"
Mason and Buie covered their ears almost the whole time we were down there. Mater was honking his horn here and Lightning was revving his engine. What babies I have!
Only Walker and Celie were missing from all of Granny's grandchildren. We were waiting in line to get on a ferry to take us from our hotel to Downtown Disney to go eat dinner with my cousin Abby and her family at Rainforest Cafe.
We even made time for some horseplay with Uncle Andrew. That's Buie in midair, oh.....at about 11p.m.! (I don't think my bays fell asleep before10:30p.m. one night)

Monday, March 7, 2011

Day 3: Magic Kingdom (again)
Magic Carpet ride of Aladdin (much like Dumbo, but watch out, the camel might spit water on you)
Mom, my cousin Abby, Jason, Rachelle, Hunter and Hudson on Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Abby and I an the Winnie the Pooh ride (very safe in the eyes of little kids)

Mason and I think Olivia taking off to shoot Zurg.

Day 3: second half at Hollywood Studios
Here's Chirs on the Rockin' Roller Coaster. He got to ride a lot of rides without me, because I can't ride them (I would be sick for the rest of the rip if I did).
Here's is a Jedi training show, which was one of the cutest (funniest for adults) shows we saw. 8 or so kids got to be trained to fight Darth Vader, which in the eye of a kid would be awesome.
Lotso Huggin Bear from Toy Story 3! One of Buie's favorites.
Mr & Mrs Incredible and the kids all showing their muscles.

After this we had dinner and Illuminations show. This was Mason's favorite thing about the whole trip. Second was the Toy Story ride. Very cute show, recommend it for sure.

Day 4: Animal Kingdom
Boing! Bright and early picture with Tigger.
Notice Chris in the top of this picture. Not sure why he looks like that in all his roller coaster pictures, but here they are riding Mt. Everest.
Soaking wet if you can't tell! This is the crew the rode the River Rapids twice. Crazy or stupid, I'm not sure, but I was going to ride it if Mason said he would do it. You have no idea, it was like pulling teeth to get our kids to ride any rides!

The Bald Eagle here, very cool. I did not know they were not extinct anymore. This was an awesome birds of prey live animal show. I mean flying right over you, it was neat.

Day 4: second half at Epcot
Watch out for our hiding animals!
We had a dinner and fireworks show at Epcot this night.
Goofy and Minnie came to dance with the kids for a little bit too.

This explains everything! Andrew carrying Olivia back to the room after a very long day.

Day 5: Epcot
Other than a couple of rides, we saw a lot of characters at Epcot. Mason and Chris playing a Kim Possible scavenger hunt game that was very cute, but Buie was too young for it.
Bolt! The boys loved seeing him.
This was my goal the entire trip.....for Buie to see the BEAST! He LOVES the Beast.

We got lucky to find Snow White and she even sounded just like her. She and Belle were the only "real" people characters we saw.

Day 5: second half at Animal Kingdom
Buie and Granny with Chip & Dale (with red nose). My mom really wanted a picture with Dale since her name is Dale.
Off on our special safari to see the animals...we got to go when everyone else had to leave the park and the animals were coming in to be fed.
Not sure what this one was called, but cool none the less.

ROAR! This lion was pacing back and forth and putting on a show.


Mom and her handsome boys

Timon and Rafiki from The Lion King, came to visit us at our dinner. Notice Frances, the elephant and Olivia, the lion had their faces painted, cute.
After our safari and dinner we went to Hollywood studios for one last hoorah, because we had extra magic hours since we were staying on the property. This is very nice as most everyone has to leave the park but those of you staying in their resorts(which is still a lot of people). Other than catching the Toy Story ride one last time and the big kids riding Rockin' roller coaster again, we lucked out and stumbled on maybe the biggest hit of the whole trip......Dance Party with the characters. Oh my gosh, it was so awesome. The kids were awe struck to be able to hang out with and dance with the characters. Usually you had to stand in a ridiculous line to get their autograph and quickly take a picture and run along. Not this, the kids (and adults) got to move and groove to Miley Cirus, do the macarena and even do the limbo with Goofy, Mickey, Handy Manny, Pluto, Minnie and more. We couldn't have asked for a better way to end the trip!

My mom's only request was to get a picture of her and her kids with Mickey. We tried all trip long and someone was always missing or the lines were way too long. Well, not at our dance party! Just in time......at the 25th hour of the day, we finally got the shot she wanted. Hopefully I will get the one of us when we were "young" kids that she was trying to recreate.

Sunday, March 6, 2011


Here's a glimpse of what we have been up to.......DISNEY!
We went there for 5 days with my 2 brothers, their families and my mom. (minus Miss Priss and Walker) So many pictures to pick from, but I promise they will come shortly, once my head settles. I am still a little dizzy from all the rides, people, commotion, etc.

 
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