krewetland: The Happiest Place on Earth

So I'm still way behind and catching up on September. The girls and I had a very fun trip to Walt Disney World in September! We met up with Holly, Tara and Abby for a long weekend. Holly and I have had a bit of bad luck in our recent travels together... Tropical Storm Beryl, Hadley getting sick on a camping trip with a hail storm, 100 degree and stormy camping at Kentucky Lake... but this trip was great. The only time we got wet was leaving the Magic Kingdom one afternoon. The girls did great and had so much fun. It was really neat to take them while they are still so in to the princesses. I also enjoyed catching up wtih my friends who I don't get to see often enough. I think Jim and Tommy enjoyed some good bonding at home too :)

First stop, Epcot for breakfast with the princesses. Neat to see the park before it really opened for the day.

Breakfast with the princesses was definitely a highlight of the trip. Nothing like seeing Belle, Cinderella, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White at breakfast. Then they got to do a princess parade where they walked around the restaurant with the princesses and Hadley held Ariel's hand. She also told Ariel she was her favorite princess.

After princesses, we lined up to meet to Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto... that was 11 signatures and pics before 10 am!

After Epcot in the morning we moved to Hollywood Studios. We love the Toy Story movies and Madeleine was so exited to the see the Army guys. She wanted them to move for her but they were in toy mode.

Jake and the Neverland Pirates is one of the girls' favorite shows so it was a nice surprise when they got to meet him. Then we saw a Disney Junior show that had Jake and the other characters from the show in it.

Posing for a picture with Mickey's hat. Holly made the adorable shirts the girls are wearing.

Love the film slide at Honey I Shrunk the Kids, not that the kids know what film or Honey I Shrunk the Kids is. They did love playing in the play area though.

At the end of the day, we got pictures and autographs with Buzz and Woody.

The girls also loved riding the parking lot tram. Who knew that would be such a hit.

Classic Disney Main Street picture with castle in the background... only way I could get Hadley to participate was by doing silly faces.

While spinning on the tea cups, I spotted Alice and knew we had to meet her as Hadley planned to be Alice for Halloween. This is Alice explaining to Hadley that it is very important to have the black headband to dress up like her... Thanks Alice, that cost me another $10 at the Disney Store.

Madeleine and Holly on the Dumbo ride.

One of the girl's favorite rides was Aladdin's Magic Carpets with the spitting camel.

Our last day started with a morning at Animal Kingdom. Hadley and Abby had to have the baby Simbas they are holding.

We ended the trip by going back to the Magic Kingdom. Again a classic Disney shot with some interesting poses.

The Goofy roller coaster was Hadley's favorite ride. Unfortunately she was a little too short to go on Thunder Mountain Railroad and Splash Mountain. Abby was a tad taller and really enjoyed those rides! Madeleine didn't like the roller coasters but did love the Buzz Lightyear ride which we went on 4 times.