Disney...at last!

Well, after saving for almost a year, we finally had our week at Disney! It was AWESOME! My sister's family and my parents went with us and we has a blast! We had a 6 day pass to the parks and 6 days worth of meals and we used every minute of our time there to do all that we could. Although we bought Dave a Grumpy shirt and he did get a little tired at times, he has yet to wear it! I think he is turning into a Disney fanatic!?! In fact, on the day we left, he mentioned "the next time we come..."

Dave about to kiss the hand of the Queen!

What is neat about Disney is that they make everything so special. It is truly magical! But having said that, Dave and Rob (my brother-in-law) thought it would be great to video all the "happy" people talking. Although they didn't do this, we did get some examples. I guess if you keep your children up until 11 or 12 for 3 nights straight, you might say things like this too. One mom was caught telling her child that they couldn't cry because this was the happiest place on earth. We heard lots of children crying at random times during meals, waiting in lines, etc. The funniest thing we heard, however, was one dad telling his child "do not touch her; do not get near her; do you hear me!" We just had to laugh and hope that noone heard us saying similiar things to our well-behaved children!!
3-D movies were lots of fun! At least the glasses were fun to wear; Camden was hesitant about objects flying at him and took off his glasses during the movie!




All that aside, our children did great! Yes, we kept them up to insane hours for 5 days straight, but there were smiles when we finished and tears when we had to leave.

Since we did the dining plan, our week revolved around meals. They were good meals, but I am really tired of salmon! We went to Downtown Disney the first night for dinner and ate at Wolfgang Puck's Express. It was delicious. The salmon was cooked to perfection. Then for the next 5 meals, we had some type of salmon in all but one meal! There was even salmon at the breakfast buffet! At least we got our omega-3's that week!


After going to Hollywood Studios the first night and riding the Tower of Terror and trying to see Fantasmic (our first mistake of the week was waiting until the last minute to go to this and being told it was full!), our first full day began at Chef Mickey's for a 9:50 breakfast. We celebrated my Dad's birthday that day and the kids danced with Goofy to do so. After breakfast, off to the Magic Kingdom.




We took Camden on his first water/log ride, Splash Mountain. He loved it!


Nathan is more into roller coasters now and enjoyed Thunder Mountain the best that day. He didn't care for the Country Bear Jamboree and I have to agree with him on that! We saw the day time parade, the night time parade, and the fireworks. Camden learned that he really likes parades! He and Josiah had to both be carried back to the hotel because they were asleep. It was a great beginning to a great week!