Walt Disney World - Day 2

We got up early and headed off to Animal Kingdom for the day. 

Our morning started with brunch at Tusker House Restaurant...

where we dined with Mickey, Donald, Daisy & Goofy!

 

The conga line was too much fun!

After brunch, we headed over to the Kilimanjaro Safari ride...

where we saw all kinds of animals including hippos & rhinos!

I loved seeing the giraffes up so close...

We finished up the "Africa" area of the park on the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail...

before heading over to "Camp Minnie Mickey"...

where we cooled off at the "Festival of the Lion King" show

(which was fantastic)...



before hitting the "Greeting Trails" to meet some more characters!

Next, we headed over to "Dino-land USA" to catch
"Finding Nemo - The Musical" (and to cool off again)!

It, too, was a fantastic show.  After the show, we stuck around in
"Dino-land USA" to ride some rides...



play on the playground...

and catch up with Goofy & Pluto one more time...

before heading over to "Asia" where B rode his first roller coaster, Expedition Everest!

After that adventure, we headed over to the Kali River Rapids for another adventure...

We left Animal Kingdom after a full day to get ready for dinner at Downtown Disney!

We rested a bit and then headed over to T-Rex Cafe...

I am so glad that sweet M woke up in time to join the party!

What a FUN day!

Walt Disney World - Day 1

We live within a day's drive to Walt Disney World,
so with dinner reservations in place for Wednesday night, we plucked the little ones from their beds and set off on our SURPRISE trip well before the sun came up.

We made our first stop for breakfast & continued along on our journey stopping to picnic for lunch...

We didn't even give so much as a hint as to where we were headed until we entered Disney property!  I think that B was finally convinced that this little "surprise" trip was going to be very fun!

He had been quite confident that wherever we were headed could never be as fun at Chuck E. Cheese!

We arrived at our hotel a bit before 5pm where "Tinkerbell" had left a little surprise for the little ones...

(I bought these Tervis Tumblers at Bed, Bath & Beyond before we left and they were even more perfect than I imagined that they could be...  There are tons of water fountains scattered around each park and we were able to fill them up constantly.)

We got unpacked and ready for dinner, hopped on the monorail & headed over to the Contemporary Resort for dinner at Chef Mickey's...

where we met Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy & Pluto!

B loved every minute of it, posing for photos with the characters & collecting autographs on his pillowcase...



L, always my cautious one, was not so sure... 

She didn't really go near the characters, but was waving & blowing kisses to them by the end of the night...

M recognized that something was going on, but wasn't quite sure what it was...  She kept pointing and making all kinds of exclamations in her own little language...

After dinner, we went back to our hotel to prepare for our first full day!