Happy 1st Birthday Alexis Grace!
cupcakes made by Mommy
time for presents!
cupcake time!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Disney World Day 3, 4 & 5
Our week at Disney World flew by! We had SO much fun that we are already discussing going back in a few years when Hunter turns 5. We enjoyed the hotel pool on Wednesday and relaxed. The kids took a much needed nap and we had a nice relaxing dinner at Downtown Disney.
We also had dessert at the Ghiradheli ice cream shop. Allie had strawberry ice cream with sprinkles and I had a Ghiradheli chocolate milkshake. Yum! Downtown Disney has a lot of neat shops including the largest Disney Store in the USA. We spent almost 45 minutes in there! There is also a Lego store with a lifesize Buzz Lightyear made completely out of Lego's.
Thursday we headed back to Magic Kingdom for an 'agenda free' day. Meaning we had absolutely no reservations at any restaurants, no set plans, etc. We were able to ride a lot of rides including "Astro Orbiter", "Winnie the Pooh", "Buzz Lightyear Space Spin", "It's A Small World", "Peter Pan's Flight", "Regal Carousel", "Magic Carpet's of Aladdin", "Swiss Family Robinson Tree House", "Jungle Cruise", "People Mover" and the kids really enjoyed exploring "Tom Sawyer's Island". Alexis took a nice 2 hour nap in the stroller and while she napped the kids rode "Pirate's of the Caribbean" with Clint. We also did the "Carousel of Progress" which was one of my favorite's when I was a kid. Allie enjoyed it and it was also nice to cool off inside. The kids met Mickey & Minnie Mouse at the Town Square theatre. They were so excited and because we went around dinner time the lines were not bad at all. Hunter gave Mickey a big hug and that was the highlight of my day!
Day 5 at Disney World was fun but super hot! We arrived at the park by 9 am and stayed until almost 9 pm! The day flew by and because we knew it was our last day of vacation we tried to squeeze in all of the kids favorite rides one last time. Allie loved the Magic Carpets of Aladdin so we made sure to ride that again (3rd time). Clint loved Pirates of the Caribbean so we rode that again, this Alexis & I went too. After waiting 20 minutes we were finally able to ride Dumbo! After purchasing some 'must have' souvenier's such as a coffee mug, tee shirt for Clint, 2 Minnie Mouse's for Allie, Buzz Lightyear for Hunter, Christmas ornaments, and onesie for Alexis we headed to the Polynesian Resort via the monorail for the Spirit of Aloha dinner show.
The Spirit of Aloha dinner show was by far the best money we spent all week. The food was amazing, authentic and the entertainment was a lot of fun. The kids loved watching the hula dancers and the fire dancers were great. Allie went up on stage to do the hula which was really cute. The food consisted of an authentic Hawaiian dinner, salad, fresh pineapple, sweet bread and marinated ribs, chicken and rice. Dessert consisted of chocolate mousse' volcano's with raspberry syrup. Yum!
We also had dessert at the Ghiradheli ice cream shop. Allie had strawberry ice cream with sprinkles and I had a Ghiradheli chocolate milkshake. Yum! Downtown Disney has a lot of neat shops including the largest Disney Store in the USA. We spent almost 45 minutes in there! There is also a Lego store with a lifesize Buzz Lightyear made completely out of Lego's.
Thursday we headed back to Magic Kingdom for an 'agenda free' day. Meaning we had absolutely no reservations at any restaurants, no set plans, etc. We were able to ride a lot of rides including "Astro Orbiter", "Winnie the Pooh", "Buzz Lightyear Space Spin", "It's A Small World", "Peter Pan's Flight", "Regal Carousel", "Magic Carpet's of Aladdin", "Swiss Family Robinson Tree House", "Jungle Cruise", "People Mover" and the kids really enjoyed exploring "Tom Sawyer's Island". Alexis took a nice 2 hour nap in the stroller and while she napped the kids rode "Pirate's of the Caribbean" with Clint. We also did the "Carousel of Progress" which was one of my favorite's when I was a kid. Allie enjoyed it and it was also nice to cool off inside. The kids met Mickey & Minnie Mouse at the Town Square theatre. They were so excited and because we went around dinner time the lines were not bad at all. Hunter gave Mickey a big hug and that was the highlight of my day!
Day 5 at Disney World was fun but super hot! We arrived at the park by 9 am and stayed until almost 9 pm! The day flew by and because we knew it was our last day of vacation we tried to squeeze in all of the kids favorite rides one last time. Allie loved the Magic Carpets of Aladdin so we made sure to ride that again (3rd time). Clint loved Pirates of the Caribbean so we rode that again, this Alexis & I went too. After waiting 20 minutes we were finally able to ride Dumbo! After purchasing some 'must have' souvenier's such as a coffee mug, tee shirt for Clint, 2 Minnie Mouse's for Allie, Buzz Lightyear for Hunter, Christmas ornaments, and onesie for Alexis we headed to the Polynesian Resort via the monorail for the Spirit of Aloha dinner show.
The Spirit of Aloha dinner show was by far the best money we spent all week. The food was amazing, authentic and the entertainment was a lot of fun. The kids loved watching the hula dancers and the fire dancers were great. Allie went up on stage to do the hula which was really cute. The food consisted of an authentic Hawaiian dinner, salad, fresh pineapple, sweet bread and marinated ribs, chicken and rice. Dessert consisted of chocolate mousse' volcano's with raspberry syrup. Yum!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Disney World Day 2-Magic Kingdom
Breakfast at 8 am at Chef Mickeys
Most expensive breakfast we've ever had!
but the experience was priceless :-)
Alexis meeting Goofy!
birthday cupcake for the birthday girl
Allie meeting Belle
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
princess makeover at the Bibbity Bobbity Botique
of course we had to meet Tinkerbell-Allie's favorite!
birthday dinner at 1900 Park Fare-at the Grand Floridian
Prince Charming
Cinderella's evil stepmother
evil step sister
birthday cupcake for the birthday princess!
Disney World Day 1-Hollywood Studios
Alexis meeting Piglet-her favorite disney character :-)
Honey I Shrunk The Kids playground
giant ant!
Lightening McQueen
Hollywood Tower of Terror in the background (we did not ride it)
Hunter meeting Jake the pirate
We had a great 1st day at Hollywood Studios. We wished that we could have gone back for a 2nd day. There was a lot of shows for the kids such as the Disney Jr Live, Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast show (we did not have time to see this), the Backlot Tour and the super popular Toy Story Mania (we used fast passes for this one). The kids loved the Disney Pixar parade at 3 o'clock. We ate lunch at the Toy Story Pizza Planet and packed the kids lunch in a cooler. There were several rides that were not kid friendly such as the Tower of Terror, the Indiana Jones Stunt show and the new rockin roller coaster featuring Aerosmith.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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