Animal Kingdom

Our last day!  We saved Animal Kingdom for Thanksgiving Day because we knew the Magic Kingdom would be crazy busy due to the Thanksgiving Day Parade.  We made the right decision because the lines weren't bad at all in Animal Kingdom.  David and I even rode Everest twice which is my fave ride!  We talked Reese into going on this scary dinosaur ride (not the one below) and I honestly don't know what we were thinking.  I was traumatized by this ride when I went with my good friend Christine about 10 years ago.  We all climbed in our car and proceeded to close our eyes the entire ride (David too)!  The picture that they take during the ride show us all looking calm with our eyes closed and the people around us have looks of terror, HA!

 When we first decided to go to Disney for T-Day I knew I wanted to have our T-Day dinner in Cinderella's castle.  You can make reservations for dinner 6 months in advance so that is what I did first thing 6 months prior to our trip.  We got in!!!  I think this was probably the highlight of our trip.  Reese and Rowan loved all of the princesses.  Ro was scared of all of the characters but she was OK with the princesses.  So, we headed back to the Magic Kingdom that night for our last few hours at Disney.




 David was feeling pretty hot after his picture with Cinderella.  Our dinner included 2 prints of a picture with Cinderella.  I need to scan it and share at some point.  Oh, and each child got a princess wand or a pirate's sword.  Guess who insisted on the pirate's sword?  Reese you think???  Think again....DAVID!


















 For some reason Ro really took to our waitress.  She went right to her and gave her a big hug.
 Ro ripped this doll off a peg as I walked by.  She completely ripped the plastic ties...so I bought it for her.  She loved it!
 We went on Buzz Lightyear's ride one last time and David got a crazy score!  He was so proud of himself!
 As we were leaving the next day I took a couple of shots of our hotel with my phone.  I wish I would have done more!

Epcot

We had a leisure day in Epcot and decided not to push the girls since yesterday was so awful.  We didn't do any of the adult rides and just let the girls see what they wanted.  That worked out much, much better.  Epcot has so many amazing restaurants and the night life was pretty cool.  Maybe one day with out the kids :-).

Mary and Rowan were always chasing after the squirrels that would dart in and out of the brush.
 Reese wanted these pictures taken.  She would place herself and then tell me when to take the picture.  :-)




 Ro wanted to be held a lot today so this is what David would do and she thought it was a blast!




 Reese wanted to call my mom so bad while in this telephone booth in the UK section.  We scrambled up some coins but mom didn't answer.  She was visiting Ryan in NYC.
 We had a short wait before we were seated for dinner.  Reese took my phone and took pictures of random things.  The dinner was at a Greek place and it was just so-so.  The problem was they were so packed and they put us at this AWFUL table.  They crammed us where we were blocking people coming in and out.  They kept hitting Rowie in the back of the head and high chair when they would pass by.  David finally sat where she did and then no one could get through.  :-)  Reese loved the belly dancers and went down to dance with them.






 It was a great day and I can't believe our last day in the parks is tomorrow!

Disney Studios

We spent day #3 at Disney Studios and I learned a VERY valuable lesson this day.  The next time we go to Disney World we have to take a break on day 3.  Honestly this was a nervewracking and stressful day.  We had bouts of fun but overall we just wanted the day to end.  The girls were extremely tired and just didn't have the patience for the long lines.  There isn't a whole lot for them to do at Disney Studios except watch shows and they did enjoy that but I have learned my lesson!  David and I would have liked to ride the adult rides but with the girls it just wasn't possible.




 We started the day off with a character breakfast of some of the Disney Clubhouse shows.  I didn't know who some of these characters were but David cleared it up for me.  :-)


 Reese was doing her best to dance with them, but my skinny girl's pants kept sliding down.  I promise that I have the cinched as much as I could!




 This picture was actually from the next day.  David really wanted to ride the Star Wars ride so we went back first thing that morning and while David and Mary went to the ride I stood in the LONG line for the Toy Story ride.  Reese really wanted to ride it.  We tried to get a Fast Pass but this ride runs out of them before lunch time every day.  So, I stayed in line with both girls *by myself* for about an hour.  David and Mary join me in line with like 5 mins to go...you know everyone in line loved that.  :-).  Anyway there was this moving Mr Potato Head that would dance, sing, and tell jokes.  I took this picture and Reese turned around and was just staring at him.  The next thing we hear is "Hey you, little girl."  Reese gets this shocked look on her face and turns around and looks behind her.  He then says "Yes you.  I'm talking to you.  The little girl in the blue shirt."  Reese is super excited now, LOL.  He says "So....what's your favorite toy?"  I lean in and whisper to her "Say Mr. Potato Head" so she does and he says back to her "Awwwww, I like you too."  That totally made her day!

Universal Studios

Our second day we spent at Universal Studios because I wanted to go to Harry Potter world and it was amazing!  The attention to detail was crazy.  The ride was super fun and Butterbeer is yummy!


 The crowds were RIDICULOUS!  I think everyone was in that part of the park.






 We spent the majority of our time in the Dr Seuss land.  Reese had a great time!  I think that her favorite thing was riding on the train that went all through the Seuss area.
















 This is before we went on the Spider-Man ride.  We kind of talked Reese into going on it because it was just a simulator.  Um yeah....that was a big mistake.  I do believe we traumatized her!