Another Disney Trip! We can't help ourselves. We love Disney!!!! Our kids love Disney!!!!
We left Saturday morning bright and early. This was going to be a very different trip to Disney. We were taking the motorhome. 9 of us. In one motorhome! (scared)! We loaded up the camper and were out of the driveway by 9am. Moma, daddy, me, Krissy, and all of the kids. We were meeting Aunt Cathy, Uncle EJ & Trey at Disney's Fort Wilderness Campground. This drive was taking a lot longer than our normal trips. We travelled all day stopping only a couple of times for daddy to get out and smoke and take a break driving. Let me just say that our kids travelled great! Landon stayed in his carseat the entire ride and didn't complain about it one bit. The other kids watched movies and colored for the majority of the ride. We met up with Aunt Cathy a little early. It was just at nightfall and we met with them at a rest area where we stopped for the night. We just pulled in and slept for the night. When we awoke in the morning, the kids had breakfast and we took off.
We were only about 1 hour away from Disney so they were starting to get excited.
When we got to the campground, our campsite was ready so we pulled the camper in and while moma and daddy set up, me Krissy and the kids headed to our favorite place, Magic Kingdom!! It was very crowded at Magic Kingdom because of President's Day, Valentine's Day (which we forgot, sorry kids), Cheer competitions, and fall breaks for some states. We didn't care. We were at Disney.
First order of business was riding some much needed rides. We cut across to Tomorrowland to ride some of their favorite rides (Buzz Lightyear, Space Mountain for Hailey, and Goofy's Roller Coaster. We even got to see a few fairies.
Next up was Fantasyland. We got to ride all of these rides and then went into Liberty Square and Frontierland. Once in Frontierland, we stopped for the kids to have a hoedown with the Country Bears.
We rode only a few more rides and then decided to head back to the camper for dinner. Aunt Cathy made most of our meals on this trip for us. :) That was great to know that we always had a meal waiting. Once we got finished eating dinner, we headed out again. Back to Magic Kingdom. We left Landon and Ashleigh at the camper with Grandma and Grandpa and we headed out with the big kids. Once we got to the park, it was cold and late, so we all picked one favorite ride and rode that. Krissy picked Buzz Lightyear. She got the highest score on this one. Hailey picked Space Mountain. So she and I got to ride that one while Krissy had a turkey leg with the little ones. Elena picked Goofy's Roller Coaster of course. I picked teacups, and Anthony picked Pirates of the Carribean. It had been closed earlier in the day so we missed it. We were all tired by this time and Pirates is on the complete opposite side of the park. We were already ready to go to sleep. While we were waiting in line for this one, I told Hailey a ghost story about how someone died while building this ride and if you say his name 3 times while on the boat, the ride will stop moving. She was freaked out. So of course, Krissy and I both said his name 3 times while on the ride and we got stuck for probably at least 10 minutes! Hailey was freaked. She said she will never say his name again on that ride. By this time, sitting on a barely rocking boat for 10 minutes, we were glad this was our last ride. We were ready to fall asleep right then and there. We did make it back to the camper with all children awake and proceeded to fall soundly asleep until the next morning.
Monday was our first official day in the park. This was the day that everyone was coming with us. Aunt Cathy, Uncle EJ, Trey, and moma and daddy were joining us. We woke up bright and early and headed to Animal Kingdom. This was going to be Trey's first real Disney experience. Animal Kingdom is not always our favorite park, but the kids do really love it. One of the first things we did was go into "It's Tough to be a Bug".
Our little kids don't usually want to sit through this show, but even Landon and Ashleigh were game so we figured why not. The kids liked it but I think the best part was when Aunt Cathy cleared her seat a good 4 feet when the bugs "bite" you on the back. She screamed so loud and jumped right out of her chair. We were all laughing at her. After this show, we went on the safari ride and saw a few shows. Then we let the kids stretch their legs in the playground.
We stayed in this park until about 3 then we headed back for dinner at the campground. After dinner me, Krissy, Aunt Cathy, Trey, Hailey, Elena, and Anthony went to Hollywood Studios for some night action. We danced at the after hours party, and rode a couple rides then headed back to the room. We had a big day the next day.
Magic Kingdom is where we headed when we woke up.
To us, this is Disney World. We could go for a week and probably never leave this park. This is the first thing we saw upon entering the park. What a way to start the day!
Then we stopped for a few pictures along Main Street just to record Trey's first visit!
Of course we started riding rides and having a good time until it was time for the parade that goes on daily. This is a picture of the kids waiting for the parade to come.
And this is Landon when it came. He kept trying to get under the rope in front of him. He was lvoing it. He kept waiving to all of the characters trying to get their attention.
We spent the rest of the day in this park riding and watching shows.
We went back to the camper as usual for dinner and then it was back to the park for us with the kids.
The next day was Epcot. Our first stop in Epcot was the Character Spot. We had not seen the Fab Five up close on this trip yet, so this was a good first stop. This is Trey with his favorite Character Goofy.
This is Ashleigh, Hailey, and Anthony with Minnie. (can you see Krissy hiding behind Minnie keeping Ashleigh in the picture) Little missie didn't want anything to do with the characters on this trip.
This is Elena and Landon with Donald. Donald is Landon's favorite.
After the character greeting we headed for Soarin and Nemo. These are great rides and the drop area after Nemo is a huge aquarium. The kids could spend all day in there. After a few more rides, Elena and I had a surprise for everyone. On one of our last visits we stopped at Club Cool which is a place to try coke's from all over the world. There is one that is so special, you have to record it for the books. This is Trey giving it a try.
This is Anthony having a taste.
It is called the Beverly. If you are ever there, try it. Unfortunately, these are the only pics I have because after these two, noone else was brave enough to try it. We rode a few more rides and then headed back for dinner. After dinner tonight though, we took a different approach. Ashleigh and Landon stayed at the camper with my mom and dad. Krissy to Anthony to Magic Kingdom to ride rides. I took Trey, Hailey, and Elena and we went back to Epcot to do a Kimpossible Mission.
This is a mission where you receive a special kimmunicator and it sends your around the Showcase for a mission to save Epcot. It was a lot of fun and we wish we would have had more time to do more missions.
The next day was our last day. It was off to Hollywood Studios. I will tell you this was a good and bad day. The crowds were AWFUL. I have never seen anything like this before at this park. According to guest relations, they hit park capacity early that morning. First on our list was Rockin Roller Coaster. This was a coaster that Hailey had never tried before. We did it, and she loved it!! She can't wait to go back and try more. Next we did the Toy Story Midway Mania ride. This is always a hit. I am ALWAYS the winner on this one which is why I think I like it so much.
Next is where things got crazy. We went to watch the stunt show and LOST Uncle EJ. We went in and he didn't and when we came out, we couldn't find him. Now he didn't have his cell so that made things a little messy. We had lunch and then left the park in hopes of him returning to the camper. We did not head to the camper though. We had a whole day. We all went to Magic Kingdom again.
About an hour after we were in Magic Kingdom Uncle EJ called and said he decided to head back to the camper after all (whew). We stayed at Magic Kingdom until it closed. We rode rides and did everything we could. It was our last night and we were not going to waste it. The perfect ending to our night was watching Spectromagic while eating funnel cakes. This is the finishing of the plate.
Overall, this was a great trip. It was a lot of fun to do Disney World this way. We had a lot more down time that we usually get when going. Sometimes the kids need those breaks.
