Preparing for Winter

Well, we had our first snow fall this week in Utah so the girls are itching for their winter activities. They dug around the garage for Kam's harness to pull them in the snow but it melted before they got the chance. That still didn't stop them.

Last Disney World Post I Promise

Our last two days of the trip were a repeat visit to EPCOT (we had a vote and that's where the girls wanted to go again), and Sea World. We had great weather during the five days at Disney World. Our last day, at Sea World, it was cloudy and rained a bit. I asked Tara if the park is open when it rains and she said, "Why wouldn't it be? All of the animals live in the water." Very true! We did buy some ponchos those in case it rained hard. We went to a few shows, fed the dolphins and we also fed the sting rays which was kind of weird. Megan was really brave feeding the animals. Ashley was nervous and Kaitlyn wanted to feed them, she just didn't want to touch he dead fish. For dinner one night, we went to Camp Wilderness, the part of Disney World where you can camp, and we ate at the Hoop De Doo Revue. That was funny and only cost us an arm and a leg (luckily we paid in advance).

Feeding the sting rays.

Feeding the dolphins.

Hoop De Doo Revue

Magic Kingdom (Disneyland's Equivalent)

Our fourth day of Disney adventure consisted of the Magic Kingdom which is essentially a copy of of Disneyland, although not exactly. It was a day filled with meeting all of the princesses. Britney wasn't sure about meeting the princesses even though most of them were very attractive for cartoon characters. We rode most of the rides and Britney made it on all of them as well. No Space Mountain this time because they freaked out when they rode it in Disneyland last year.

A highlight of the day was eating at Cinderella's castle. In the Magic Kingdom, the castle is bigger than the one in Disneyland and there is a restaurant inside (which you must make a reservation exactly six months in advance if you would like to eat there). A handful of princesses are there and they treat the kids like royalty (which they should because you need to pay royalty prices).

It took a while to get out of the park because the monorail was down and we had to take the ferry (mono meaning one, rail meaning rail). It was toasty, mid 80's at Magic Kingdom that day.

The girls coloring while waiting for Rapunzel, even though they call her Tangled.

Kaitlyn with Tangled, and that's actually her real hair.

Disney Hollywood Studios (Formerly MGM)

The third Disney park that we visited was Disney Hollywood Studios. I remember it as MGM Studios, but there must have been a falling away with MGM. Lots of fun things to do at this park. We took a 30 minute class with one of the Disney cartoonists and she showed us how to draw Tigger. That was fun for the kids. There is a backlot tour where they show how they do special effects and we looked at a lot of movie props. We also went to a stunt show that did chase scenes with cars, motorcycles, and a jet ski.

There were a few rides that were fun too. This park is where Tower of Terror is located. Ashley and Megan would even consider going on that ride, even when we called it the Tower of Fun. Kaitlyn went on it twice, and Britney somehow snuck onto the ride once, and she did it without crying. Ashley and Megan did go on the Rock n Roller coaster which is fast with loops, but the little girls were too short. Britney still wanted to go on it though and said, "I will be tall Dad." We thought that was pretty funny. There was also a ride we had never been on before. It was the Midway games with all of the Toy Story characters. You were 3D glasses on the ride and shoot cans and target in a video game style play. It was fun and is actually the most popular ride in all of Disney World.

We saw a few characters in the park including Mike Wyzowski of Monsters Inc. We left the park before dinner because we had reservations at Medieval Times. The girls enjoyed that and Britney and Ashley caught roses from our knight.

Grandma and Megan on the backlot tour.

I still can't believe Kaitlyn and Britney went on the Tower of Terror, shown in the background.

Waiting in line at the Midway games ride.

Waiting for everyone else to ride the Rock n Roller Coaster, some of us are too short.

This is the girls Medieval knight pose.

Kaitlyn's Disney World Birthday

Kaitlyn had her birthday party the night after we went to the Animal Kingdom. At the park they gave her a button that said, "It's My Birthday!" All of the park employees and a few guests said happy birthday to her whenever they passed by. Kaitlyn took it off after a couple of hours because she got tired of everyone saying happy birthday. After we got home from the park, we had birthday cake with Kaitlyn and opened her presents. She said that it was her favorite day. Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!!!