On Disneyworld.

We are back from Disneyworld and we had, if you can imagine, an amazing time. The kids were great…Lily and Canyon were real troopers as they had to hike around sans stroller (Canyon was known to sneak a ride here and there) and Jane and Alice did well sans naps. We had help from our friend Jed and Dustin’s Uncle Bill and Aunt Laura. It was nice to have a ½ dozen extra hands to keep track of the kids. We also were introduced to the world of pin trading and Lily latched onto that and LOVED it. She was able to collect (with the help of generous friends and family) a dozen or so pins. Canyon was not interested in it as it requires talking to strangers and Alice had difficulty with the concept of ‘trading.’ She seemed to think that people should just give her pins without any in return. Jane, well, she was pretty clueless and was more interested in playing with straws than anything else. Here are the highlights of each park:


Hollywood Studios:
• A life size Imperial Walker.
• Indiana Jones stunt show
• Rockin’ Rollin’ Rollercoaster (I’m taking Lily’s word on this)

Animal Kingdom
• Seeing ‘real’ animals (as opposed to the Jungle Cruise at DL)
• A great playground and tons of stuff for the little ones including: nature walks, rides, shows, characters
• The ‘Everest’ rollercoaster ride. Lily went on it 11 times.
• Talking Canyon into an intense dinosaur ride and watching his terrified face (now, that’s the only thing that he talks about).

Epcot:
• Sneaking Alice onto Test Track and her LOVING it (never to be able to get her on again)
• Mission to Space (I’m taking that one on others’ councils as you’ll NEVER see me on that ride)
• Soarin’ Over California (making us a little homesick)
• And the countries and kidcot (where the kids decorate a mask and gather tokens from each country): Canada, Britain, France, Japan, Morocco, Colonial America, Italy, Germany, China, Norway, and Mexico—I LOVE epcot and seeing all the countries.
• The fireworks

Magic Kingdom
• Tom Sawyer Island (of course)
• Fireworks and a Castle that changes colors every few minutes
• A really smooth Thunder Mountain and a not so smooth Space Mountain
• Seeing castles and princesses, it’s a Small World and Peter Pan
• The Monsters Inc. comedy show (really funny—and not at DL)

We spent our last day at Animal Kingdom again because it was so great. We could’ve easily spent another week there—but I think our kids teachers would’ve freaked out! It’s nice to be home again and we’ll just have to let the memories sustain us for a few more years before we can take another trip back there.

Jane's Favorite ride.