disney world part III

Sis and I chillin out....notice the special effects, lol.

Blaine sitting in the teacup (I love his dimples :).  This ride made me ill because Michael and a father in another teacup were having some kind of "Who can go fastest?" competition.  It's funny now that I think about it!

This was a cool view of the castle.  I made B-bop rock climb his way up there.  Haha, just kidding.  It did take some effort to hoist him up there though.

The end of "It's a Small World", which I loved.  It's nice and cool in there, you get to sit down....so refreshing!  Plus, the animatronics (I'm sure I've spelled that wrong) were adorable!  We also got to ride "The Carousel of Progress" and I probably loved that the most....but alas, no pictures :(.  

Some of my pictures are out of sequence, sorry.  Anyway, this is Blaine and Mike getting ready to go through "It's a Small World".  We just loved being together as a family here.

The stocks, the stocks.  "What terrible crime hath my son and beloved committed?"  Probably almost making me hurl whilst on the Teacups.

I thought that Frontier-land was the most fun area.  That's probably because it was a little less busy.  Blaine was taken by the hand and led to a dance.  It was just too cute and he really had a lot of fun!  I'll post the video of it sometime (don't hold your breath though).  He had just purchased this Mickey wizard hat too.

This is as close as we could get to Woody and Jessie.  He really, really wanted to meet him but the line closed just as we got there. So a picture from the distance was taken.  He was a pretty good sport about it, actually.  I told him that Woody had to go get ready for the parade.

Alayna is wearing the hat that Blaine picked out for her...she looked like a princess!  Disneyworld was made for this girl!

TURKEY LEG!!!!!!!!  This was at the top of my 'Got to do, list'.  Blaine's too.  It was ginormous, delicious and delightfully greasy.  It literally was big enough to feed all three of us.  Alayna got her own and, I'm sure, was overwhelmed.  This is probably the best picture of me ever taken.  Oh, and I'm wearing my Minnie ears (I love them so much that I wear them around the house just for kicks sometimes).

This was the little surfer boy in "It's a Small World".  I told you the picture order was all cockamamie.

This was the one Alayna really really wanted to see.  The Tiki Tiki Room was awesome!  It was a fun show and we liked singing along :).

The boys are having their evening treat, yummy ice cream!  Michael and I shared an ice cream float that was tasty.  Blaine looks like he's digging right in there.

It was the girls turn to be in the stocks.  Unbeknownst to Alayna, I was making a silly face.  She just looks happy to be there, or something.

disney world part II

Blaine wanted to ride the ferry as opposed to the tram.  I'm glad he did, it was a nice ride and not as crowded.  The view was pretty too.

By this point, Blaine was literally shaking with excitement.  We've been counting down for a long time.

Auntie Layna having a good time with Walt and Minnie.

Yeah, yeah we got a stroller.  It was a loooong day and I'm glad we had gotten it by the end.

Had to put my arm around this guy :).

I know Maleficent is evil and all, but she is so cool! 

I'm not quite sure what Blaine is doing in this picture, lol, but we sure were excited to get into Tomorrowland.

I love this shot of Blaine with the balloon Alayna got for him.  I wish I had a picture of his face here, he was absolutely thrilled with it all...and I have to admit it, as soon as I stepped into the Magic Kingdom - it really did feel like magic!

We rode the Stitch "ride".  It was cute but I could have done without the belch breath from Stitch.  Nasty!

The race track was so neat!  Alayna and I hung out in the stands to cheer the boys on.  They were so cute crossing the finish line :).

The girls' tired feet.  And to think, we still had hours to go yet!

what a lovely lovely time...

Sooooo my sister (from Oregon) surprised me with a visit. It.  Was.  Epic!  And then she tells me that she's coming to Disney World with us.  Seriously, so much fun!  I'd already seen my other sister off to Disney World and was unable to go with her (very sad).  Second chances are awesome.

We had a room booked for months and I couldn't wait to see if it was as nice as it looked on line.  It was.  

They had this adorable "towel" elephant waiting for us, it was cute :).

I'll post the actual Disney pics later.  Toodles!

I realized that this video is jumpy and disjointed, but I wanted to show you how big the event actually was.  There were about 1,000 people there, with 620 runners.  Tons of ice cream after the races were over (yum!)...we kind of pigged out.

This is Blaine and his lady friend, Jordan, practicing for their 100yd dash.  They did so well and had a ton of fun!

Michael ran his first 5k and didn't do too bad considering it was the coldest day of the year here (not really, but it felt that way at 6 o clock in the morning sans sun).  He ran it in 25 minutes flat and came in 69th out of 620 people.....soooo amazing!!!

Enjoy!