Disney Day 2 Part 2

As promised here are the pictures from my iphone. 

Took them quite a while to upload so sorry for the delay.

Waiting in the fast pass line at Winnie the Pooh.

Had to grab a quick blurry picture while on the ride.

The scene from the birthday party is my favorite! 

So happy and cheery!!

And the much anticipated Ariel ride! 

The characters in this ride were pretty amazing!

Loved the fish in this "scene"

This ride you are in the clam shell just like on Nemo at Epcot.

Our very excited 4 yr old bumped me while I snapped this one. oopsies, but this is the last scene at the end of the ride! 

So fun!!

And I did an awful job checking back with yall after the much anticipated double stroller debate. 

We finally found the City Select at a local discount store. 

It was new in box and we LOVE it.

Made getting around the park with 2 sooo easy!

Random picture of the crazy traffic as we entered Magic Kingdom that morning!

And here is sweet boy grabbing his ear and getting excited about the approaching Main Street Parade as we made our way out of the parks!

We spent the next 3 days with family and 2 of them parusing the great outlets and shops of Orlando. 

Such a fun opportunity to stop in at disney a short year and a half later after our first trip with baby girl!!

Time for a shopping post??

Disney Day 2- Part One

Man I have waited way too long to post this.... 

Let's see if I can remember what we did.

We woke up and headed straight for Epcot to go straight to the Character Spot to meet Mickey and Minnie.

We knew this would be the highlight of the trip for baby brother.

I know your super jealous of my heart monitor and the do I or do I not look pregnant. 

So over this phase!!

Carrying on...

Brother was Smitten with Pluto. 

Since we have beagles we don't make barking noises but we howl. 

Sooo funny!

Sounded kinda like an owl hooting but this was the noise he made while seeing pluto.

Not quite sure at first.

Then he was a howling away!

For those of you that don't remember our horror upon last years trip; well, big sister has a horrific fear of large characters. 

Like, nightmares, tremors, it was horrible taking her and discovering this inside Magic Kingdom!!

This year she got brave!! The first day was a slow start and warm up but apparently all it took was getting Minnie to sign a doll!!

Score!

After we said our good byes to Mickey, Minnie and Pluto we hopped on the monorail and RAN over to Magic Kingdom to sneak in lunch at the new Be Our Guest restaurant.

For those of you that do not know Be Our Guest is one of the restaurants in the new Fantasyland. 

Being honest, most disney food is pretty run of the mill, honestly not that great. 

This meal was very flavorful and quite satisifying!!

Here is what we saw upon walking in the restaurant.

There was not a single detail un-noticed!

Here is what the menu looks like!

After a walk down the "short hall of armored men,"

you then round the corner and are given a red rose. The rose contains a GPS tracker in it for the server to bring you your food.

You place your order at the following stations and then select a room to sit in.

Since we are big scaredy cats, ie our 4 yr old, we sat in the rose garden room.

It is quite impressive that each room can accomodate hundreds of people.

If I added correctly, at any given time they can seat just under 1000 people!

The walls in this room were covered in scenes from the movie.

Our food was delivered in once of the fancy serving carts like seen in the movie.

Everything was hot, tasty, and probably the best meal I have ever eaten at disney!

We were smart this day...

We fast passed Mickey's Philanthrarmagic, and Winnie the Pooh. 

In the meantime we rode the carousel!

Then we fast passed Ariel's new ride! I think it was called Under the Sea.

And walked right up and rode the Spinning Tea Cups!!

Back with iphone pics in just a bit!

Disney Day One

I should have known, I should have been better prepared.

But I wasn't...

If you can't tell from the picture, people are literally running to get into the park! 

Insanity!

Park gates closed at 11:00am this day, gates close at between 85,000-90,000 people and normal occupancy is considered 40,000.

Insanity!!!

we were quite terrified by all the crowds and for a child with a huge fear of large characters this is a true overcoming of fears!

Then.. out of no where we spotted pluto!

Way too scared to talk to him hence the photobombing begins!

Then we got in line for meet and greet with the princesses!

 A little timid at first, then... add some minnie ears and Voila!

Sooo pumped afterwards!!

Then we headed to Dumbo's new ride in fantasyland!

Baby brother was not sure what to think of all these flying elephants!

He ended up loving it!!

We stopped for a quick photo op.

Baby girl with Uncle Cody.

This was his last week working at disney.

Just now realized we have a mouth full of popcorn! 

This is outside of gastons tavern. 

we enjoyed popcorn while everyone else had hot chocolate!

We finished up the night with the closing show!

Be back with Day 2!

Disney Recap 2

lion king show at animal kingdom

 main street show at mk. i don't know how they do it.

 this is the spitting camel outside of Alladin's magic carpet ride

 the 3:30 show 

outside of the castle. she was enchanted.

 introducing princess belle

at Akershus Royal Banquet Hall, she was quite timid.

we all really enjoyed Epcot.

 we got to meet quite a few characters at Epcot character spot!

dancing on the ferry over to MK

singing in the rain umbrella at Hollywood.

I used Jones Design Company's free printable for some cute luggage tags to label our stuff.

had a blast playing in the line waiting for Winnie the Pooh, one of the most innovative lines I have ever been in.

And.... American Girl in Atlanta.

she had no idea what she was about to see, but she knew I was excited!!

she was in hog heaven!!

ready for lunch.

mommy's babies, and hers got all fixed up in the beauty salon!

This is definitely a vacation we will never forget!!