I often have more to write about than time to write it. As a result, I haven't been updating our blog as often as I used to. Rick mentioned to me that I may be losing readers because my posts are sparse, lengthy and not very funny. It's true that I'm probably tyring to cram too much in on the rare occassion that I write. If you find reading our blog boring, I'm sorry. Maybe I'm just not funny anymore. Oh well, at least I'm putting up some cute pictures of the kids for grandparents and family to see and that's what really matters to me. To reduce the length of this post, I'm not going to write about Andrew's recent preschool field trips or our birthday celebrations. I'll skip right to our Disney trip. If I come back another day to write about the other things, you'll see some really cute pictures, but don't count on it. I'll be lucky to get this one finished.
Our flight to Orlando this time was out of the Des Moines airport which is about a 2-hour drive. The weather was threatening, the drive was stressful, and we barely made it to the airport on time. We ran as quickly as we could to the terminal expecting the plane to be loading, but found our flight delayed by about an hour. A blizzard warning was put into effect at noon. Our flight left just an hour before that--we barely made it out!!
We felt extremely fortunate to be leaving behind the cold weather and even more fortunate to find we were going to miss the 2011 Blizzard.
To celebrate our freedom, we ate breakfast on the patio of our "villa" in 70-degree weather. Beautiful!!
Our first day at the park was exciting. Ricky and Andrew brought their Mickey hats from our last visit.
The kids enjoyed seeing the Princesses and Makayla got all of their autographs in her autograph book (a birthday present). Sean wasn't sure what to think of the ladies who wore bright colors and tons of make up. Check out his expression in the following two pictures . . .
Our waiter brought Makayla a special birthday card signed by the Princesses along with a birthday cupcake.
On our way into the park, we picked up a "Happy Birthday" button for Makayla to wear. Everywhere we went, people were wishing her happy birthday. It was fun!! Makayla enjoyed filling up her autograph book with signatures from a variety of characters.
On our 3rd day at the park, Andrew had a memorable experience. At the risk of making a long story too long, I'll summarize as best as possible. We won some FastPass tickets to Toy Story Mania (a ride with a ridiculously long wait). Just as we were about to get on the ride, Andrew got a bloody nose. After a few minutes of trying to stop the bleeding with baby wipes (which was the only thing resembling a tissue that I had with me), Andrew started to freak out. I considered putting a diaper over his nose but didn't have the chance before we decided he needed to get out of the crowded area. By the time Rick found the exit and got him outside, he was screaming and his nose was gushing blood. Instantly, Rick was surround by Disney personnel offering to help. They offered to call paramedics, brought Andrew water, and more. They were very accommodating. Meanwhile, I rode the ride with the rest of the kids. Once Andrew started to calm down, the Disney employee who had given us our original Fastpass tickets, gave us 6 more so we could ride again (with Andrew). The Disney staff went the extra mile when they gave Andrew a certificate to buy a new shirt at any shop in Hollywood Studios because he had gotten some blood on his shirt.
Being at Disney World is exhausting for anybody. Both Sean and Andrew were pretty good about taking naps in the strollers.
Andrew is wearing his new Disney shirt in the following picture--you can't really see it, though.
Our flight to Orlando this time was out of the Des Moines airport which is about a 2-hour drive. The weather was threatening, the drive was stressful, and we barely made it to the airport on time. We ran as quickly as we could to the terminal expecting the plane to be loading, but found our flight delayed by about an hour. A blizzard warning was put into effect at noon. Our flight left just an hour before that--we barely made it out!!
To celebrate our freedom, we ate breakfast on the patio of our "villa" in 70-degree weather. Beautiful!!
Our second day at the park was Makayla's 9th birthday. To celebrate, we went to breakfast with the Princesses at Epcot.
One more adventure . . . On the same day as the bloody nose incident, Ricky lost his first tooth. We were just leaving the park and heading toward the shuttle to go home and Ricky announced that his tooth had fallen out (more blood)! How fun to have the tooth fairy come at Disney World . . . I wonder if she knows Tinker Bell.
We enjoyed our trip and I have a ton more cute pictures to share, but that's enough for now. It was difficult to come home to a high of 10 degrees, but we're expecting a balmy high of 37 this weekend here in Eastern Iowa, so I think we'll survive. How many more days until spring?
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I am glad you guys had such a great trip. If we evern make it to Disney World we are going to need to talk to you guys about where to stay and get all your good tips.
And that is great that they gave Andrew a voucher for anew shirt - he is so sweet. Some good friends of mine just went on a Disney Cruise last month and they had one lose a tooth on the cruise and Tinkerbell gave her $20 for losing it on the cruise. I bet if Disney knew Ricky had lost his tooth in the park, they would have given him something special.