Disney 2014--Day 3

Tuesday, March 11...Hollywood Studios!

Ok, this was kind of a blah day. I want to like Hollywood Studios, I really do, but it's just not my favorite park. It's not a bad park, just not my favorite. Plus, it doesn't help that our tiredness from traveling and having a full day they day before were catching up with us.

Anyway. We got to Hollywood Studios, and we immediately went to get our fastpasses. We got a fastpass for the Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Toy Story  Mania, and The Great Movie Ride.

Our first fastpass was for the Little Mermaid, so we headed over that way. The girls were soooo excited because they LOVE Ariel. They enjoyed the show very much!

After the show, we just killed a little time. After a bit, it was time for our next fastpass, The Great Movie Ride. We got this fastpass because I knew they would love the scene with the Wizard of Oz. The did love that scene, but the rest of it scared them a bit.

After our ride, we let them play on the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids playground. They had a lot of fun playing on that.

After that, it was time for lunch. We ate lunch at Toy Story Planet. It was good, and the atmosphere was so cute!

We headed over to Toy Story Mania after lunch and rode that. The girls loved it! After the ride, we looked around in the gift shop next to the ride.

We decided we would go catch the Muppets next....the show was really cute.

We walked around Hollywood Studios that afternoon, but like I said, we just weren't feeling it. We decided to call it a day early and head on back to the room. OH MY GOODNESS....this is when we had COMPLETE meltdowns. We were waiting for the trams, and both girls melted down because they said they weren't ready to leave. I think they were really just overly tired. Ava got over it, but KR screamed the whole tram ride back to the car. I'm sure the people on our tram LOVED us. It's been a long time since one of our girls gets that upset and we can't get them to calm down. We got in the car, and she screamed halfway to the hotel before giving it up and going to sleep.

Once we got back to the hotel, we tried to transfer her while she was still asleep to the room, but that didn't work and she woke up. Of course, she wouldn't go back to sleep. We still had a little quiet time.

After we had rested a bit, we decided to go eat and then go to Downtown Disney. We ate at Chili's and there was a man there who made balloons for the girls. Ava got a flower, and KR got a dog! After dinner, we headed to Downtown Disney and walked around for a bit.

We got tired and headed back to the room. We went to bed not too long after getting back to the room. We were all tired, and we had a big day the next day!!!

Disney 2014--Day 2!

We woke up early to get ready for our dining reservation. We ate breakfast at Chef Mickey's at the Contemporary Resort. It's one of our favorites!

We were stuffed after breakfast and headed over to Magic Kingdom!!! 

We were sooooo excited to be at our favorite park!! Now's the time to let you know that pictures of Kate Rivers may be a little sparse....she was not in the mood to take pictures on this trip!!

As soon as we got to Magic Kingdom, we headed to get our fastpasses! We got fastpasses to meet Rapunzel, Peter Pan, and the cars! Other rides we rode while we were there during the day were the carousel, teacups, Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh, Small World, and Magic Carpets! We also ate lunch at Cosmic Ray's...I don't know why, but it's always been one of my favorite places to eat lunch at Magic Kingdom!

The park started getting crowded mid afternoon, and we were tired, so we decided to head back to the hotel to rest for a few hours before coming back! We went to the hotel, and we all took long naps. We slept until between 5:30 and 6. We got up, and went to pick up dinner. After eating dinner, it was time to head back to the park! 

We looked around Main Street and rode a few rides after getting back to the park. We caught the Electrical Parade at 9....we LOVED it!!! After the parade, we rode Pirates of the Caribbean. It scared Ava, but KR LOVED it! After riding that, we headed over to Tomorrowland and rode several rides there. After that we went to Fantasy Land and rode lots of stuff! 

The schedule we had that day worked out PERFECTLY!! The night was the best. The park pretty much cleared out, and we practically walked on any ride we wanted to ride. We had so much fun and stayed until 12:30....that's soooo late for our kids, but hey, we were on vacation! :) 

This day was truly magical and one that I will never forget!!!

We crashed once we got back to the room so we would be ready for our next day!

Disney 2014--Travel Day and Day 1

I know I never get on here anymore, but we just got back from Disney yesterday and had the BEST time! I want to document our trip on here so I don't forget!

Saturday (March 8):
This was our travel day. We had originally planned to leave about 6 that morning and drive the whole way to Disney. Well, we couldn't sleep Friday night, so we left at 3am! :) It actually worked out really well, because the kids slept the whole way to Mobile! We had a pretty uneventful trip down for the most part. The only stressful time was when we stopped in Lake City, Florida for lunch. The town was way busier than we thought it would be, and we got a little stressed out finding our restaurants where we were going to get food!! :) It all worked out, though, and we arrive in Orlando between 3 and 4. Oh...I did forget that our GPS took us to the wrong hotel to begin with! We ended up in Downtown Orlando (which was nowhere near where we were staying). We finally found our hotel and got checked in.

After getting checked in, we headed out for dinner. We found an IHOP and just ate there. After dinner, we went to Downtown Disney for a bit! We had a great time, and it really put us in the mood for Disney. The girls were really sad as we were leaving that night because they thought we were going home. We assured them that we were just getting started and had 5 days in the parks! That cheered them up!

After spending some time in Downtown Disney, we headed back towards the hotel so we could go to the grocery store to get snacks. The grocery stored was packed, but we got what we needed.

We then went to the hotel room and got ready for bed!

Sunday (March 9th):
We planned to go to church at the early service at 8. Keith made it, but the girls and I did not. We slept in a bit and took our time getting ready. Keith got back to the hotel about 9:30. We packed up to get ready to go (we were only staying in this hotel 1 night because our other hotel wasn't available that saturday night). After we got ready to go, we headed to our first park of the trip: Animal Kingdom!!!

We were so excited for our first day in the parks!!! The first thing we did after arriving at AK was to get our fastpasses. We got a fastpass to the safari, It's Tough Being a Bug, and the Nemo show. 

Our first stop was the safari! We did this last year, and we really enjoyed it again this year! 

After the safari we met Chip n Dale!

After meeting Chip n Dale, it was time to grab some lunch. We were in the mood for pizza, so we chose Pizzafari! it was really good for a quick service meal, and I would definitely eat it again.

After lunch, it was time to head to It's Tough to be a Bug. The show kind of scared the girls, but they made it through, and it obviously didn't bother them too much because they are still talking about it.

We had a lot of time to kill between this and our next fastpass, so we decided to just explore the park and take everything in. Here are some pictures of things we did around the park.

After some exploring, we were ready for a snack! I got a frozen lemonade, Ava got an ice cream Mickey, and Kate Rivers got a frozen banana...Keith didn't get anything. We enjoyed our snack. We were really tired though (since we lost 2 hours of sleep the night before due to the time change and changing time zones). We decided to skip our last fastpass and head back to the hotel and call it a night early.

After leaving the park, we stopped and picked up fast food. I got Panera Bread (my new fave). Keith and the girls got Burger King. They were soooo slow at Burger King, and had several people in front of us complaining, but we finally made it back to the room! We knew we needed to get some sleep because Monday was going to be a big day in the Magic Kingdom!!!