Star Wars at Disney

 We were in the park early for our breakfast so we were the first in line to join the jedi training academy.  You have to be four years old to do this so we told Hayden he was 4 for several weeks before the trip. ( If you ask him now he knows he is 3).  He was able to answer all of the questions and was signed up for the first show.  He asked to wear his jedi outfit.  He looked so cute.


Here is some video footage.

He had a hard time activating the light saber since it is different then one we have.  But he did well when he got to fight darth vader.  I love that he jumped to hit Darth Vader's head.




His cousin Nathan did the training later in the day.

Later we had tons of fun playing in the star wars area.


And we got our official star wars picture that we get each time we are in Disney.  This year we got one with all four of us.  It turned out great.



Here are the rest of the pictures:

Epcot

We were at Epcot for opening too. What can I say my kids are early to bed and early to rise.  We headed to character connection to see the fab 5 characters.  First was Mickey...




 Minnie
 
Goofy
 
Donald
 
 And Pluto.
 
 We also met Stitch.


Mike road soarin and we rode Nemo.




Hayden played at innovations. We met the low family and road spaceship earth which was a disaster. Hayden got in a car at the last minute with his cousins and changed his mind as soon as the ride went to a dark area. He screamed for me the ENTIRE ride and never stopped.. And Amelia got upset and screamed too (season had her). It was awful yet somewhat funny.  I hate that dumb ride even more now.

The cousins and mike rode mission space and we let Hayden play in the water area.


While playing I took this photo which is my favorite from the trip.


 It was flower and garden show while we were there so we also checked out tons of the topiaries. (see more at the end)


Then we headed to the countries of world showcase where we ate in each one. First was Mexico. We had nachos and empanadas. Yummy! My favorite spot this trip. We also road the boat ride and saw Mexican donald.


Next was norway where we ate some school bread and road the Maelstrom boat ride.


 China was a lot of fun. We had orange chicken and really walked thru the shops. It is pretty back there.


 After that was Germany and mike got a pretzel and the kids saw snow white.


 In Italy we had yummy strawberry gelato.


 Japan the food was gross.

 In morocco it started to rain and the kids got cranky and were ready to leave. We did see jasmine and Aladdin.


We missed France and England but we have been there before. I was surprised the kids lasted as long as they did.  I love walking thru the countries.  It is hard with the little kids because it can get boring but Hayden lasted long b/c he got to run, color, chase lizards, etc with his cousins.

Hollywood Studios

 On Sunday we went to Hollywood studios. We had an early breakfast with Disney junior characters so we got into the park early. At breakfast we met Handy Mandy...


Agent OSO


And Hayden's favorite Jake from the Neverland Pirates.


Hayden was cranky that morning for awhile so he doesn't look happy in any pictures. By the end of breakfast he was singing along to the songs from his favorite shows. After breakfast the park was still not open. So we were first in line for jedi academy. I will post more on this later.  Hayden's cousins met us in the morning and Quinn and Matt also met up with us.

Mike rode Aerosmith rockin roller coaster and we saw Disney junior live. We also saw Muppets 3d. We got to ride toy story mania. And the new star wars ride.


We took Hayden on the tower of terror. He did not cry but it was not a hit with him.  If you ask him if he liked it he will say yes.  If you ask him if he wants to ride it again he will say no.
I felt bad b/c I thought the ride was over and I told him it was all done.  Then we went up and down several more times.  Oops!


We did see some characters like mater and lightning McQueen. Hayden had mater teeth!


 And we watched Nathan do the Jedi training academy also. The kids had a rough day this afternoon and we left after the parade and took them swimming.  Turns out Hayden was sick.