Our Trip to Disney World (Part 2)

How do you even begin to describe a week at Disney World?  Other than to say that it truly is one of the most magical, happiest places and was one of the best weeks ever for our family.

We left Nickelodeon Resorts early Monday morning, checked into Wilderness Lodge at Disney World, stowed our luggage and headed straight to Magic Kingdom to meet up with Matt and his family and Mom & Dad.

  The whole crew!  The sun was bright, y'all.  The photographer had a little trick to deal with sun in the eyes.  He had everyone close their eyes, and on the count of 3 we opened our eyes and he snapped the picture.  Some were a little slower at opening their eyes.  =)

Monday and Tuesday, we rode all of the rides at Magic Kingdom.  Some of our favorites were

  It's a Small World was one of Jack's favorite rides

Will and Granddaddy on Dumbo the Flying Elephant

I love the teacups at the Mad Tea Party...the faster the better for me!

 The Astro Orbiter at Tomorrow Land.

Will was a bit put out about the race cars, mainly because they wouldn't race.  He was expecting them to be like go-carts and have the ability to pass other drivers.  Oh well.

 Splash Mountain

Jack wasn't thrilled with Splash Mountain because he DIDN'T get wet.  I wouldn't ride Splash Mountain because I didn't want to GET wet.  Funny how your Splash Mountain goals change as you age!!

Will loved Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin and being captured by Zurg at the end of the ride was always fun.

The most surprising discovery is that we have a group of boys with a need for speed...they LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the roller coasters.  The faster the coaster, the higher the drops, the better the ride! 

Hands up every one!  Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was fun, but we all agreed that the best roller coaster in Magic Kingdom was Space Mountain.  Jack and Will loved it!  Will got off of Space Mountain jumping up & down screaming, "Oh yeah!  That was awesome!  I loved it!  Let's ride it again!"  One of my proudest parenting moments because I'm a roller coaster girl myself! 

Wednesday morning, we had a character breakfast at the Tusker House in Animal Kingdom.  It was fun to get to meet all of the characters and have them sign our autograph books.

 

 Pocahontas was BEA-U-TI-FUL...the boys may have been a little bit smitten!

A couple of my favorite pictures!  Chip was goosing Jack in the ribs causing him to laugh hysterically, and the look on Will's face just captures his personality.

Our original plan had been to spend the morning at Animal Kingdom and the afternoon at Epcot, but we found so much to do at Animal Kingdom that we ended up staying the whole day.

Digging up dinosaur bones

Expedition Everest was one of our favorite rides at Disney World.  We would get off Everest with the boys chanting "One More Time, One More Time!" and immediately get back in line to do it again.  I think we rode Everest four times in a row...with our hands up every time!

Thursday was spent at Hollywood Studios.  Jack and Will loved the Tower of Terror!  In fact, the Tower of Terror was one of Will's favorite rides.  Can you believe it?!?!  Jack and Cal rode the Rock and Roll Roller Coaster, but Will and Brady were just a tad too short.  Will was heartbroken that he couldn't ride it and was crying because he just knew the measurement was wrong.  But those tears quickly dried up when Gramma said that she and Granddaddy were taking the little boys souvenir shopping...roller coaster?  What roller coaster?  See ya later.

 Look at those sweet things holding hands!

The photographer asked Will and Brady to hug...

Well, maybe not so tightly...

Thursday night, we went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party at the Magic Kingdom.  This was the only time that we stopped to watch the parade.

It was alot of fun to get to ride our favorite rides again in the dark, and we closed down the park at midnight with one last ride on Space Mountain.


Friday morning, we slept in and then headed to Epcot.

Jack, our history buff, loved Spaceship Earth's depiction of the development of language and communication.  Will declared the ride BOR-ING because the ride moved too slow for his liking.

Will's favorite ride at Epcot was Mission: SPACE, a spaceship simulator ride.  He loved that we each had a special job to do on our mission to Mars.  Maybe we have a future astronaut?!?!  During our time at Disney, Epcot was hosting the International Food and Wine Festival.  Brent and I pooled all of our remaining Disney Dining snack credits and sampled all of the native cuisine as we went from country to country.  We felt like we had dined our way around the world in a single afternoon!

We had the best time at Disney World!  The week went by way too fast and we were all so sad to have to come home.  We are already talking about when we can go back again!  One of the most magical weeks of my life and one that we all will remember for a lifetime!