Epcot

Our 2nd day we headed to Epcot.  We had a breakfast reservation to eat with the Princesses.  Hayden is mad in the pictures with the "golf ball' because he didn't get to put his ticket in the machine himself to get in.  So he was mad. We had this problem one more time before I made sure that the workers didn't take his ticket from him.

Here is a better shot with the golf ball...

You will notice other pictures where he is not smiling.  This was him most of the week.  He just would not smile for photos. You would never know that the boy was having a good time.  Ugh.

The kids had matching Christmas shirts on to meet Santa so we died their hair red.  I didn't do Amelia's.  Here is Hayden while waiting to get in the park.  So he was still in a good mood here.

Amelia had her pretty Belle dress to meet Belle but she was shy so I had to get in the picture with her.

This breakfast was excellent.  The bacon was so good.  I was craving it the other day!  Amelia loved the fresh strawberries and refused to eat anything else.  She ate tons an I am not sure how she didn't get sick from it.



We got to meet Aurora

Snow White

Ariel

and Cinderella

I told Hayden beforehand that he had to be nice to the princesses or he would have to go to the dungeon with the dragon!   So he was a gentleman.  Later he told me this was his favorite breakfast b/c the princesses were so pretty!

Amelia enjoyed twirling around in her pretty dress

After breakfast we met up with everyone in the family.

We go to ride the New Test Track.  It was the same ride just re-themed.  I enjoyed it but wouldn't stand in a long line for it. 

We also rode Nemo.

Amelia loved the boat ride for Living with the Land.

Hayden got to ride Soarin and declared it his favorite ride.

We went to Club Cool to try the different sodas from around the world.  Amelia was in heaven.  She loves pop.  (The refillable hotel mug was her best friend all week.  We don't have pop at home b/c of her obsession)

 We also had one of the yummy home made ice cream sandwiches.

We explored the countries.  The kids lasted a long time today.  I was impressed.

Hayden wanted to go in the Mexican pyramid so bad.   So we rode the silly boat ride inside.

Mexican gangsters????

We stopped in America and met Santa and Mrs Claus.

Amelia hated them!

This is the first year Hayden willingly sat on Santa lap.

Funny story...Hayden told Santa what he wanted for Christmas..  a real leaf blower and a real chainsaw.  Santa then looked at me like WTF you are a terrible mother.  Oh well.  This picture is cute of Hayden and Santa...

We stopped to see the big gingerbread house.

The kids loved playing in the phone booths in England.

We also so Pooh and Tigger in the toy store.

The kids got to meet Mickey

and Minnie,

and Pluto. 

Epcot is a lot of walking and we were tired by the end.  Amelia skipped her nap but she was fine. 

Here are the rest of our pictures:

Animal Kingdom

Our first day we went to Animal Kingdom.  We had an early reservation for Tusker House.  You will notice a theme for my Disney Trips.  It involves getting to the parks early.  It is so much less crowded in the mornings.  It make it so much more enjoyable.  Then we just stay until the kids get tired or overwhelmed.  So we our back before dinner, Amelia naps, we get to swim and everyone is happy.

The kids were super excited to get going to a park.

So anyways... we made it to the park.  Tried to get a picture with the tree but it was foggy.

We gave Amelia a little pig tail.  She looked like Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch stole Chrsitmas

We checked into the restaraunt and got to meet Donald.  Amelia was screaming his name while we waited.

Then we were seated and enjoyed a great breakfast with tasty jungle juice (orange juice, passion fruit and guava juice mix).  I enjoyed Tusker House and it was a great way to start the trip. 

The kids loved meeting the characters and marching around with them
 

We then left the restaraunt and saw the opening crowd coming towards us so we quickly got out of there and to the safari ride.  We got on right away and saw tons of animals. 

Giraffes were everywhere and right near our car blocking the way.

A rhino and her baby were near our car too.

We got a great view of the lion which is often hard to see.

We took the kids to see the Christmas Characters.  Not sure why they are at Animal Kingdom but the lines are short no complaints from me.

We saw Mickey...

Minnie

Chip N Dale

Santa goofy

and some other characters.

We rode dinosaur.  Hayden rode it in May and hated it and told me leading up to this trip that he didn't want to ride it.  But when we go to the park he wanted to ride it so we did.  I have a love/hate feeling about the ride.  It is a great ride but it scares me every time.  I freak out the entire ride b/c I know what it coming.  So I am sure I didn't help. Hayden hated the ride and was ready to cry when he got off.  He bought a hard hat with a light on it to cheer himself up!

Here is the picture from the ride.  You can see Me cowering in the corner.  Hayden is crying.  Kennedy is just frozen.  Ryan and Lauralynn look scared and Paige does too.

Here is Hayden's hat.

After that we rode some rides and the kids got to go dig for dinosaur bones and play in the playground.

We also saw Winnie the Pooh

Tigger

and Eeyore

I didn't stay much longer. My kids were tired from our long travel day.  So we went back for a swim.  Everyone else in the family hung out a little more 

The rest of the pictures...