Guess What?!

     We are going to Disney World....AGAIN!  What started off as just my oldest son and I going has turned into the whole family going...That means another 14 hour drive with 3 kids!  We will be leaving around 8 to 9 am.  We are planning on taking a lot more breaks and stopping over night to rest and then get up and make the rest of the trek down.  We are going to stop and stay with family if we don't think we can make it to Valdosta.

     We are planning on going in September this time.  We are going to do M.N.S.S.H.P. again, too.  We are planning on doing 3 days at the parks including the party,  one day at Epcot for the opening day of Food and Wine, the Halloween Party, and then our last park will be Animal Kingdom.  We are doing off days between those days  so we can relax by the pool and chill out.

      We have to stay at Port Orleans Riverside this time because its just the 5 of us going and no extended family this time.  We liked the feel of the resort when we ate at Boatwright's last year.  It just feels laid back and relaxing.  We also liked the fact that we can hop on the boat and ride over to Downtown Disney.  This is a selling point for my oldest who LOVES the Earl of Sandwich...
     For our dining reservations we are going to eat dinner at Boatwright's the day of arrival.  Our second day we are eating breakfast at The Garden Grill before Epcot opens!  Our third day is a break day and we are going to have dinner at Cape May Cafe.  Our fourth day is our MNSSHP day and we are going to have dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern.  Our fifth day is another break day and we are having dinner at O'hana!!!  I tried multiple times our last trip to get reservations, but we couldn't manage to get them.  Luckily there were plenty of times available this trip!  Our last day we will be at Animal Kingdom.  We are having another early breakfast before park opening, this time at Tusker House!  We figured breakfast is a safe bet for the kids and the options are similar to Boma's so we are pleased with this option.  My next post will be about our wish list of things to do this coming trip.

Epcot/Hollywood Studios

Yes the title is correct!  We did both parks in one day.  Food and Wine Festival by day and Hollywood by night!  The pictures will be posted at the end of this post.  We did Epcot during the day.  We didn't really do any tastings.  Although I did do the Mexico food cart and had the trio.  It was delicioso!  We had quite and adventure...We did the Seas with Nemo in the morning and then went "around"the world. As we were ending our trip "around" the world my 3 year old decided to escape his stroller without us knowing while I was checking out in a shop.  How he did it I will NEVER know.  What I do know is we found him...While I was talking with a cast member who was getting a search party dispatched I had my husband go back to the last place we were at because my mommy instinct told me to...He was there.  Thankfully another mother had found him and was about to take him to a cast member to be reunited with us...He ran to his daddy and when he saw me he wouldn't let me go.  He now understood why I had the rule to not get out of the stroller and to hold mommy or daddy's hand if he did get out.  I still don;t know how he got from Mexico to Norway all on his own that quickly.  He listened to us the rest of the trip.  We went into the Mexico pavilion to get some treats after our scare.  Afterward we went and ate lunch.  We then rode test track!  FUN!  Then we went to club cool and tasted the drinks.  Some were great other not so much.  Afterward my mom went back to the hotel.  The rest of us went to ride Soarin'!  I could ride this multiple times...it was so fun!  We then decided to go to Hollywood Studios on the boat.  This was an awesome idea!  We had dinner right next to Star Tours and then went and rode it.  It was fun...My dd almost got sick but she hung in there like a trooper.  Afterward we went to ride Toy Story Mania.  The kid's laughs and giggles were the best!  We had so much fun!!!!!!  If I would have been paying attention to the signs we would have went to see the Spectacle of Lights, but I was so tired I didn't even notice them...

Animal Kingdom!!!!

This post and the next few are LATE!  I know...Life got in the way (see previous post).  Animal Kingdom was FUN!  We had fast passes for The Lion King musical...Unfortunately,  it was shut down for the day because the sound system went down...We then went to ride Kilimanjaro Safaris.  The kids LOVED it.
We then went to have lunch afterward....We ate at Flame Tree BBQ...It was delicious.  Afterward we went to The Bug's Life show and got in on our fast pass they gave us for The Lion King being down.

 The kids had forgotten about the effects...LOL...Let's just say I had a good laugh between their reaction and their dad's.  After this we went to watch the Finding Nemo musical.  It was the cutest thing EVER!  We are huge Nemo fans here...It really is an awesome show and well done.   You can tell the cast really cares about their jobs with this show.  We then headed toward Kali River Rapids.  Along the way we stopped at Expedition Everest so my hubby and his baby brother could ride, since we still had time for our fast passes.

They are the 2nd row.  You can;t tell but my my husband really did enjoy it....

We had to wait around about another 10 minutes  til our fast pass time.  

This is how they waited....Finally we went to ride....My younger 2 and my mom opted out so we used their fast passes and rode twice!  The first time I got off and I was dry...Not after the 2nd time!  I was SOAKED!  

Wearing their pjs we got them at AK