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Disney Pics Vol. 1

2.8.11

 At the airport ready to leave winter and head to FLA!
 Dinner the first night we arrived was at Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney with Michelle and her husband, friends from the blogosphere. So nice to sit with them and chat some…even with the presence of 4 children (all ours) including one who was not real excited about the fake storm that takes over the restaurant every so often (that would be Lydia).

See the fear in her eyes? These characters look a whole lot bigger when they are 12″ away. She started sobbing right after this picture was taken. First morning in Disney and the girl thinks we have brought her here to terrorize her. 

Me and my quacker (the thing in my mouth, not Donald). Because of my voice issues, I brought this duck quacker thingy to blow so that I wouldn’t have to try to yell for the kids’ attention or when I was super excited during a ride or parade. It became quite comical (after Lydia stopped wincing at the sound of it).

One of my princes and me as we ate dinner at Cinderella’s Royal Table — that’s inside the castle, folks. Very cool.

 The new Toy Story Mania ride in Hollywood Studios is awesome. Just the waiting area when you are in line is an attraction in and of itself. So so neat. We did it too many times to count.

About to blast off — note Drew’s eyeliner still there.

Our favorite experience restaurant – the Sci Fi Drive-in. See me in the backseat with Lydia. We’re blurry for a reason. The girl pretty much doesn’t stay still.

If you hang out after the Indiana Jones show, you can visit with Indy and Marion and get their autographs. I’m thinking everyone looks more like a movie star from a distance.

The Fastasmic show — the best night show of all the parks. Loved it. Oh, the kids did too.

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Totally Drew

2.7.11

Hands down — my favorite. This is 100% my son. In fact, I’m wondering if someone borrowed him for this when I wasn’t looking.

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Sunday Snapshots: {yo ho, yo ho…}

2.7.11

We’re back and coming down from our Mickey-high. After a week of early-summerlike weather filled with fun and magic, flying home to dreary winter skies, freezing temps, and dirty piles of plowed snow and the thought of getting back to real life this week…well…is just not so fun.

We took hundreds of pictures this week. But, for now, I’ll just post a few of my faves from the first full day in the parks which was Ashlyn’s 7th birthday. We had the kids do the Pirate League experience which was a riot. They got pirate names, took pirate oaths, and were decked out in Pirate attire and accessories. As you can imagine, Drew chose the “look” with the absolute most makeup and scariness to it. Evan, aka James Stormwater, on the other hand, said “makeup isn’t my thing.” His assigned pirate spent her time with him telling him pirate stories instead of putting makeup on him. Perfect. And, Ashlyn, I mean, Emily Sailmonger, became a lovely empress for her birthday in the Magic Kingdom.

You think Drew, I mean, Nate Stormwater, was scary with his face painted? You should have seen him later that night when we tried to wash that stuff off. Despite using nearly an entire container of eye makeup remover which I brought just to remove this face paint since I had read it was hard to remove, we still were looking at a 4-year-old heavy metal rocker.

It only took about 2 days to eventually come off.

(sigh)

More pictures to be posted from our Disney week as soon as I can stop moping about and get myself organized and functional again…

Ni Hao Yall

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‘Twas the Night Before Disney

1.28.11

‘Twas the night before Disney and all through this pad, 
not a creature was stirring but a weary Mom and Dad.
The lists have been checked and the packing is done,
Now, we’re ready to have some fun!
There’s only one thing, I think, that I didn’t pack.
I’m going unplugged (gasp), traveling without my Mac.
No blog — except maybe a picture or two.
There are just too many parades, shows, and rides to do!

The snow here is deep, but we’ve Mark shoveled our way.
Nothing can stop us from flying South for a holiday!
Mickey and Minnie, we’ll be there real soon.
Look for all 17 of us tomorrow afternoon!

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