Two Roller Coasters in One Day!

Last Disney post!  The final morning, this is how Aden woke up!  He said Mickey was the bad guy, that's we he's at the other end of the bed.

Aden is lucky his friends gave him a sliver of the bed!

Our view from the room.  Felt like we were in Hawaii!  It was a bit overcast but still very warm.  We packed and checked out.  Southwest took our bags from the room and took them right to the airport.  That was awesome.  We didn't have to worry about them till we got home.

Never did get a chance to try the pool.  

Ariel was ready to go!

Pretty lobby.

Back to the Magic Kingdom.  We were flying out that night and wanted to stay close.

It was crowded again.  

Aden was excited for the Buzz Lightyear ride.

It was hard to get a picture.  Ariel got 100 points!

Uh oh, Evil Emperor Zurg has my kids!

Born and raised in Philly and have never heard of this awful sounding concoction!  

This time Aden was not scared of the Haunted Mansion.  I did have to cover Ariel's eyes a few times though.

We had a very nice lunch at the Liberty Tavern.  I ate this whole crazy dessert myself!  No one wanted a bite, not even the kids!

We walked out of lunch and it was pouring!  Luckily it only lasted a few minutes.

It's letting up so let's go to our next ride!

Aden was so excited that Splash Mountain was closed for renovations.  He hated it last time!

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.  It's a fairly decent roller coaster that Aden wanted to try.  

All during the ride he kept saying "this is the greatest ever, I don't want it to end!"

Ariel and grandmom went on Aladdin's Magic Carpet ride while they waited for us.

We found more crazy sweets.  We bought a couple of Minnie apples to bring home.

The splash zone wasn't on.  Maybe because of the rain?

One more quick coaster ride.  Goofy's Barnstormer Roller Coaster.

The Magic Bands ended up working really well.

Another fun ride!

I know someone who stayed in Cinderella's castle!

This is the new area.  

Ariel's castle!

Yes, Aden made me buy him the hat.  I'm the only one that's worn it.

It was time to finally leave.

Bye Disney.

One last Mickey bar.

We took a boat back to the Polynesian.  Aden was sad.

It was a nice way to travel.

Their own little beach.

We skipped the bus.  Too annoying.  We took a car to the airport.  Turns out it was our turn to be those people.  Ariel, for some unknown reason, screamed the entire flight home.  There was nothing we could do.  Thankfully, it's only a two hour flight.  So remember how I told you how great it was that Southwest took our bags from the hotel room?  Well something went wrong and we only got 3 of 5 bags.  The others came the next day.  What a crazy week that was!

Lilo, Stich and a Very Scared Little Girl

It's Sunday night.  We are watching the Academy Awards and wondering when the next big snowstorm is going to arrive.  My work is already closed and Amy has a three hour delay so far but there hasn't been any snow yet!

Just 2 more Disney posts, I promise.  You may remember 2 years ago, when we had breakfast with Lilo and Stich and friends at Ohana at the Polynesian.  Well, we did it again.  This time with Alex and a very scared Ariel.  Alex is now living in Gainsville about 2 hours away.  She wanted to go to the parks with us and we are glad she came.

 The food was great but the juice was amazing!  Some sort of passion fruit combo.  We couldn't get enough.

 There's Lilo.

 Mickey!!!

 Ariel was not happy.

 Pluto!

 After breakfast, we took the bus to Animal Kingdom.

Ariel got her map.

 Both the kids loved the stroller.

 Mt. Everest in the distance.

Let's go to the safari!

There was a bit of a line.

 They started the nature preserve at the time they started Disney in the early 70's but it's only been in recent years that you can tour it.

 Ariel was excited to see the animals.

 They can walk right up to our car!

 Last time we were here the animals were hiding.  Not this time.  Everyone was out, even the lions.

Someone is getting tired.

 The kids took some of the animals with them.  

 Then it was off to Dino Land.

 That's Amy with the kids in the center Triceratops.  

 The games were $4 each!

 Aden played 2.

 It's time to dig for dinosaurs!

 Ariel made friends.

 We were crazy and decided to go to a second park.  Someone fell asleep on the bus ride.

 Disney's Hollywood Studios.

 Ariel was still asleep.

 We got a fast pass for Toy Story Mania.  This is one hard ride to get in to.  It is fun though.  you get thrown from screen to screen having to shoot different things.  You pull a rope to shoot.  About half way through Amy complained that her hand hurt.

Honey I Shrunk the Kids!

 I think we were invaded.  There were thousands of teens from Argentina.  Aden got to practice his Spanish.

 Cute!

 Waiting for our table at Mama Melrose.  Dinner was good.

 We then went to see Fantasmic.  We got there about 45 minutes early and all the seats were gone!  It's the big show they do every night in an outside stadium that holds about 10,000.  The show has not changed in years and is actually getting kind of boring so we left early to beat the rush to the buses.