Thursday, March 19, 2009

Well, it's taken me 2 months but here are some Disney pictures! Our friends TK and Blake and their twin boys Cooper and Bo joined us for a visit to Disney World in January.

We really had an awesome time. The weather was great our first day and got progressively colder - Orlando's coldest in 10 years! We met many characters and navigated our way through everything with relative ease. Of course, no trip with three 3 year old boys is without some level of chaos...but we were in the happiest place on earth and it was great!

On the first evening we just settled in and let the kids run on the beach front of the hotel.



Magic Kingdom here we come! We headed straight to Dumbo as we had been instructed by several informative Disney friends. We then experienced Peter Pan, Small World and a Pooh ride...all were great - we were pleasantly surpised by "It's a Small World". We also got to try the kids first roller coaster, which was actually quite speedy. Then we had lunch and rode the Buzz Lightyear ride. We ended around 2pm after the Pirates of the Carribean ride and of course the Mickey shaped ice cream treats!

Chace was a little hesitant to hug Mr. Smee...


Looks like Cooper is headed into an ice cream coma


A chance meeting with Donald in "Frontier Land"
After naps we ate a light dinner and made it back to the Magic Kingdom for the Festival of Lights Parade - it was great!


Day 2 was Animal Kingdom. It was a little cold that day but the kids enjoyed seeing the real animals and characters like Tigger and Pooh. We ended this day with ice cream again - so yummy!



The big finale was our character dinner. Chace really liked getting to meet the main guys up close and personal! He did a great job...although by the end of this dinner the adults realized that Disney is very smart to serve alcohol!



We can't wait to go back!!