Saturday, October 15, 2011

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.


Finally went to the happiest place on earth--or I guess the world!  DISNEYWORLD!!!!   So we were nervous about taking Grace on the airplane and how she would act but she ended up being a little princess.  :)


Ready to fly!

Grace is singing a song about flying I think
Once we landed in Florida we realized how freaking HUMID that place is!  Oh my!  Everyone was sweating like crazy--except Grace, of course.  We set up 2 fans on her and one in her stroller.  She was nice and cool the whole time.
Summer baby

Bronson never needed a single fan--he self cooled with his binky
Two pictures that look like they are of the same thing, but really you get to see how well Landon holds still:
peek-a-boo

avoid all eye-contact with camera

Standing in line for Harry Potter--there were fans all over but none of them were on the entire time we were waiting in line. As soon as we walked into the air-conditioned part of the ride, the fans turned on.  Figures!

Right outside the doors of Hogwarts


The ride had probably the coolest wait area.   The pictures on the wall were talking and moving. 
Everyone spent time taking pictures of the waiting area inside of Hogwarts

Jurassic Park ride--I took this with Landon sobbing because he couldn't go on the ride.  This is why Angie and Bert look happy/sad.

Heading into Poseidon's Adventure

Another great shot of Landon avoiding eye contact

Drinking Butterbeer in the rain--nothing more beautiful.  Well, unless you can lick it off Brady's mustache.

First picture here they are supposed to be looking like they are throwing up.  Second picture...not sure what is going on.  All I know is....Landon is STILL NOT LOOKING!!!


We went to Universal Studios--The Mummy Ride was super cool and pretty scary.  Universal was pretty fun, it just didn't have the same feeling as Islands of Adventure.  Don't get me wrong, the rides were really cool, but the walk from ride to ride felt like we were at a cheap carnival.

Feeding Gracie to the shark....the people after us thought that was so funny they did it to their little girl too.  The Jaws ride was actually pretty cool.
Taking a break, eating a snack and Landon is thoroughly enjoying himself--with his eyes closed while facing the camera.
But, I guess you can't blame Landon for not making eye contact with any of us the entire time.  I mean, he spent most of the rides in rooms like these:


Landon isn't tall enough to ride on many of the Island of Adventure/Universal Rides and so can't really blame him for holding a grudge against camera time.
Bronson didn't go on many rides either, but he got to meet E.T. and Steven Spielberg....

....He knows he's lucky

Grace was thrilled at the idea of being poked in the eye by an alien.

What a smile!  And she didn't even get to go on the E.T. ride.

Here is Landon, finally getting to go on a ride!  Yahoo!




When we went back to Islands of Adventure, we went straight back to The Adventures of Harry Potter .  And ate lunch at the Three Broomsticks.

Brady is way excited to be taking pictures.  He hates humidity.

But at least he has a sense of humor about it.

Brady is really excited because A-it's night time and so we aren't sweating like crazy and B-we are about to go see the muppets--his favorite people in the world

Miss Piggy and the Muppets.  Oh yeah and a cool fountain behind them.  :)  Is Landon looking yet?

Toy Story!  What a cool ride!

Brady's favorite 

These birds....they made this place Jared's favorite place....

....by taking a crap on his head.



We made sure she wore her monkey outfit for Animal Kingdom.



If Brady's head can fit into a Hippo's mouth--you know it's big.


Watching the Gorilla eat his breakfast.  He would occasionally look at us like we were ruining his meal.


Waiting for Brady and Angie to arrive with our Fast Passes.  Fast passes are where it's at!  We hit all the rides and then some!
While waiting to use our Fast Passes for the Rollercoaster ride, we decided to go on the Safari.  It was a lot of fun and we saw TONS of animals!  The strangest part about Animal Kingdom is that it closes at 6pm because they have to put all the animals away at night.  I guess I just kind of figured they let them roam around and do their own thing.
Hippos hanging out in their pond

Giraffes blending in with the trees


Grace sleeping through the ride





More sleeping

This is the super cool Animal Kingdom tree in the center of the park.  There are animals carved all over it..  Bert was  so kind to inform me that it wasn't a real tree.  In case you were wondering.

The Mickey Mouse Ice Cream.  Gotta have it.

Waiting around for the bus to take us back to the hotel.  We were all  painfully hot.


Hoping that the next bus coming was our bus.   It wasn't.


So after being super hot, and the day still hadn't ended, we decided to go to the pool.  Luckily after a day of pooping, the pooping wasn't done.  They had to clear out the pool early because--as Brady and Bert told us--there was poop in it.  We get upstairs and find out Landon had pooped in his swimsuit.  And then the 2nd best part of this story is that as Bert was washing Landon off in the bathroom we hear him shouting.  Jared decided to poop his swimsuit too.  Fun!
But some of us didn't poop in the pool.

Exhausted after long days in the sun.


 So the next day we were off to the Magic Kingdom.

Grace sleeps like this to keep cool.

Taking the ferry into the park




Right before we get on the Jungle Cruise, this is Bert explaining to us why Disneyland's Pirates ride is better than the Disneyworld's Pirate's ride.

Grace loves Jungle Cruises.





Making reservations for lunch.  You have to pick a place with air conditioning so you can recover from the humidity.


Is Landon looking?.....eh, no.
Grace is always sleeping....good thing it didn't cost anything to take her with us.

Monster's Inc.  Not a ride, but a hilarious production.  We loved it.
Posers.  They are texting in their joke to be used in the show, but it never was.  Too bad, it was hilarious!  
  




Our beautiful Disney princess.

Oh my gosh...is Landon looking?!?!


We had to explain that Winnie the Pooh wasn't a re-cap of the poo in the pool incident.

She felt much better when she heard that.




Look at those lips.   
Sleeping on the bus on the way back to the hotel.  This was our final day....

....and I think it hit everyone pretty hard.
As you can see, Disneyworld was awesome, we had a blast and we were sad to go home.  Also, that was my last hurrah before going back to work.  I had 1 more week left and then it was back to spending my days up in SLC for Fidelity.  So, I made sure that I spent as much time with my little one, appreciating all the little moments.






And, finally, my little baby at 3 months.  I love this little baby.  She is growing so fast.



2 comments:

Doreen said...

The tenth picture you posted looks like Grace died of heat exhaustion. Yeah, humidity STINKS! Try living with it 24/7 like we do! Oh, and would you mind asking Bert if that Winnie the Pooh tree was fake too? Just can't tell :)

Marcus Lane said...

geesh, looks like qutie the trip! although we missed you extremely.