Disney World Wednesday & Thursday

Wednesday morning was...not as fun as we would have liked it to be. We had schedule a "Grand Gathering Experience." We were going to a special Character Breakfast with the whole family, all 20 of us, at the Magi Kingdom. I woke up when my alarm went off and went quickly to the bathroom where I spent a good amount of time puking my guts out. Will power and determination helped me to get showered and ready for the day, I wasn't going to miss out on any of the fun. My mom called around to see how all the other families were doing and found out that several of my sister Marie's kids were up all night puking. Another phone call informed us that several of David's kids were also participating in the puking party. The last phone call let us know that Peter's family was fine and ready to go play. This was not good. Our character breakfast could not be rescheduled, but who wants 9 puking people at a breakfast. We decided that those who were well enough would still go and we'd check in with the rest and meet up later.
I wasn't going to miss Anna seeing all the characters so I went. I didn't eat anything and the smell of the food just about did me in, but I made it and the kids who went had a great time.

Throughout our trip the nice Disney employees kept giving Anna stickers. She LOVES stickers.

My favorite part of the character breakfast was a comment made by my nephew Zach. He was excited to meet the characters and have them sign in his little book. When Daisy Duck handed him back his book after signing her name Zach said, "Hey, she drew a monster in my book!"

Devin, like usual, had his camera out and was taking pictures like crazy. Anna wanted to get in on the picture taking fun too. She likes Daddy's camera.

Part way through the breakfast we got a call that Marie and the rest of her family were going to come and try and make it. We were glad they got there just in time for a few pictures.

Anna loved the fountain in the middle of the restaurant. She couldn't get enough of it.

After breakfast we had a pretty good day at the Magic Kingdom. I was feeling pretty sick all day long, and it was pretty cold, but we still had lots of fun. Anna LOVED everything we did.

Anna was not too excited about any of the 3-D shows in any of the parks. I think this had a lot to do with the fact that we wouldn't let her hold any of the 3-D glasses. Mostly because she broke this pair shortly after we took the picture.

This next picture is great because it is similar to one we took on our last family trip to Florida several years ago. This time it is all of the dad's holding the sleeping children rather than the moms. I'm glad Devin didn't mind holding Anna when she fell asleep in line, she is getting heavy!

All of the little cousins had a great time playing in the Splash Mountain play area while they were waiting for all the big kids to go on Big Thunder. They were having so much fun they didn't want to leave when it was time to go.

Devin took some great pictures that night. The castle looked so cool, all covered in "snow."

Thursday things were much better. We slept in a bit and then went over to Hollywood Studios. This was a fun park to go to with our big group because there are a lot of shows so our whole group could stay together.

We decided to skip the Fantasmic show so we could go on Rockin' Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror. The best part of the day was after going on Rockin' Roller Coaster one last time, we all did a sprint...literally...over to the new Toy Story ride. If you were in line before the park "closed" you could go on the ride. Anna completely enjoyed her ride in the stroller as we ran as fast as we could over to the Toy Story ride. We made it. We were pretty much the last ones in line. By that time Anna had really figured out how to walk along in the lines.

We laughed as we watched Mr. Potato Head pull his ear out and drop it on the floor, that isn't suppose to happen. If you look close in the picture he is missing his ear.

This was by far one of our favorite rides. The boys were really excited.

By the time we were done on Toy Story the park was pretty empty. It was fun walking through the park with no one else there.

Look closely in this next picture and you will see my brother David looking just like my Grandma Beth in so many pictures. That's a Grandma Beth pose if I've ever seen one.

Now for my favorite funny story of the day. On the bus ride home I sat next to my nephew Spencer. (As you can see from the picture below, he is pretty stinkin' cute.)

I asked him what was his favorite thing that we did that day. Spencer is 4 years old and I was surprised that he said, "Ooohhh the Tower of Terror is SOOOOO COOL!!!!" I couldn't resist asking what makes it so cool. His answer went something like this, "You go into this hotel and there are spider webs EVERYWHERE!! And then you go into this elevator thing and you watch this TV thing and you see these people get turned into ghostes. The ghostes come back to try and get you. They want to turn you into a ghostes. Then you go in the elevator up and down and UP and DOWN and UP and DOWN! It was AWESOME!!!!!!!" If I only had a way to record him saying it. It was hilarious! Thank heavens Thursday was a lot more fun than Wednesday. Did I mention that the sun even came out and we even took our coats off for a while. YEAH!!!!