Disney World Part 2

On Tuesday, we headed back to Magic Kingdom.  We stopped by the Lost & Found to see if Patrick's magic band showed up, but no luck.  

We got our picture with the castle again!
Much better.

Our cute kids.

We went to get our picture taken with Ariel before meeting up with the Wootens.  Eamon was really excited to meet the Little Mermaid while we were in line, and Connor was indifferent. But we we sat down, Connor chatted Ariel's ear off, telling her about how he plays games on the iPad, and Eamon was so nervous.  The pictures ended up hilarious because Eamon looks SO MAD.  But he was just apprehensive.

Best picture.

After seeing Ariel, we met the Wootens to see Mickey's Philharmagic.  Connor thought the slapstick moments were hilarious, but I think the whole thing went over Eamon's head and it was hard for him to keep the glasses on.

Afterward, Patrick wanted to go on the carousel with Eamon, since he enjoyed it so much on Monday.  The Wootens went to meet some characters and ride some rides.  We went on Jungle River Cruise, which I remembered fondly from the first time we were there.  It didn't disappoint!  I thought it was hilarious and the boys had fun being with both of us on a ride.

Family selfie while the boat ahead of us was stalled out.

After the Jungle Cruise, we had an ice cream sandwich and met the Wootens at the Haunted Mansion.  I was nervous about it because it was not my favorite, but I knew the Wootens wanted to go on it, and Patrick thought it would be fun.  It was not a great idea for Connor.  I think Eamon ignored it all, but Connor HATED it.  For a while, it was all he talked about Disney World.  He does not like things that are purposefully scary.

Poor Connor was not amused.

I liked this shot I got of the castle.

We then headed to Hollywood Studios.  I was wiped out and Eamon hadn't napped in two days.  We rested for a half hour in the car in the parking lot and felt a lot better.  Patrick took Eamon in the carrier and he fell asleep walking into the park.  We went to the Lights, Motors, Action! stunt show.  Connor announced, right before we walked in, that he had to go to the bathroom right then.  We ran to the bathroom, but were separated from the group.  Connor and I were on the other side of the stadium seating from everyone else, so we enjoyed the show together.  We were pretty excited to see Lightning McQueen, but unfortunately, he was only in the show for a couple of minutes.

Riding the "roller coaster," as Eamon
called the parking lot trams.

Connor and I enjoying the show.

Lightning McQueen!

Connor loved seeing Lightning McQueen and was pretty disappointed with how little he was in the show.  I was relieved when Patrick told me later that Eamon slept until right after McQueen went "off stage," so he didn't know what he was missing!

We thought about going to the character meet and greet with Lightning and Mater, but decided it would probably be packed right after the show.  So we headed to the Disney Jr. show and got our picture taken along the way.

Connor sat on on the group and the
photographer went with it.

So cute of the Wootens.

After the Disney Jr. show, everyone else headed to the Tower of Terror and Eamon and I got something to eat.  He was a delightful, if wiggly dinner companion, and my food was really good!

Blurry food picture.  When I discovered I couldn't eat pickles
because of my geographic tongue.

After Tower of Terror, we went to Fantasmic! the great show at Hollywood Studios.  This was a mistake for poor Eamon, who was terrified.  Mickey is threatened by a bunch of villains and there's a lot of fire.  Eamon was so, so worried for Mickey and even brought it up a couple weeks ago about how the fire was going to get Mickey.  Poor kid.

Wednesday we went to Epcot, Patrick's and my favorite park.  The boys really loved it too!  The weather that week and progressively gotten hotter and hotter and the humidity really kicked in that day.

My attempt at Mickey nail art.

Eamon LOVED the big, BIG ball.

All the previous day, Connor had been asking for mouse ears like Parker and Porter.  Hollywood Studios didn't have them anywhere, so the first gift shop I found at Epcot, I looked for them and had success.  I went shopping with Eamon and he wanted the Lightning McQueen ears.  And he wore them nonstop the rest of the week!  It was so cute.  He wore them a lot when we got home and basically every time he rediscovers them, he will wear them for at least a little while.

Picture with birds of paradise flower, that will always makes me think of Marie.

First up was the Finding Nemo ride, which all the boys but Eamon weren't really excited about since they were pretty much only interested in roller coasters at this point.  But Eamon LOVED it.  After the ride, you can explore some aquariums and Eamon loved that too.  Connor, not so much.

A tank of clown fish.

After the Nemo ride, the Jemisons went to get lunch and the Wootens went to a character meet and greet to see Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy.

He loves his ears.

We intended to go to the Japanese section to go get lunch, but by the time we got to England, we were ready to stop!  It was hot and I was hungry.  The fish and chips place had a fully shaded patio with lot of seating and we were glad for it.

Pictures I took for Aunt Sassy.

We left lunch to go meet the Wootens at Test Track, and on the way, Eamon fell asleep on my back.  We transferred him into the stroller and I took him shopping while they waiting in line and did the ride.  Eamon slept a long time!  Almost 2 hours.  It was a relief to me since he had not been napping and we had been getting him to sleep so late.

Sleeping buddy.

I got the kids a treat in the store: cotton candy!  Connor ate his so slowly.

After Test Track, we went to Turtle Talk in the building with the Nemo ride.  It was really fun and funny.  You interact with Crush the turtle, who is voiced by a comedian who can see the audience and somewhat direct his character on the screen.  Really neat.  He asked the kid audience questions and Connor wanted to be picked so badly, even though he didn't raise his hand.

He did not want to take this picture.

Afterward, we went to have dinner at the German restaurant.  The Wootens went to ride some rides beforehand and we met to have dinner.  I was really psyched for it, but was pretty disappointed.  The kids were not thrilled, except for the brief moments in which they got to dance on the dance floor, I couldn't eat SO many things because they were so full of vinegar, and it was crazy expensive.  Ah well.  I'm sorry Wootens, it was my idea.

As we left the park, the boys asked what was inside the big white ball.  We told them it was a ride and then noticed the wait time was 5 minutes, so we went on Spaceship Earth together.  I'm pretty sure the boys didn't care at all, but I was glad we went on it!

On our way our of the park, we got to take pictures with the ball, all lit up for sunset.  It was beautiful and the photographers knew what they were doing!