Disney World Part 3

Thursday we moved out of the condo.  Britni and Jerod went to a timeshare presentation and hung out at Disney Springs and their hotel, and we went back to Epcot until we could check into our hotel at 4.  I knew Eamon would want to go on the Finding Nemo ride, Connor wanted to go on Test Track, Connor wanted to do Turtle Talk and have the turtle talk to him, and we wanted to go to Japan to eat lunch and shop in the store, since they have a big Studio Ghibli section.

We started out going to the Finding Nemo ride and Turtle Talk.  Turtle Talk was a disappointment because unlike the previous day, when only one or two kids raised their hands, 15 or more kids raised there hands, so there was very little chance for sweet Connor to get picked.  He didn't take it too hard though.

It was crazy bright, hot, and humid.  We tried to do this PhotoPass.

Connor and Eamon wanted a treat, so we bought them these ridiculous Mickey and Goofy sugar cookies.  There was so much black food dye on them and it changed the color of the boys poop for a week!

Poor Connor got sunscreen in his eye.
It made him miserable all day.

The grossest "cheese" photograph smile.

We then took the ferry over the water to get to Japan and had lunch and went to the Japan store.  We bought two more puzzles for the kid's room and took some picture with the torii gate with the ball in the background.

He's so cute.

After our trip the World Showcase, we knew we had to wait until 4:30 to leave the park because we were having out puzzles left for us at the package pickup.  So Eamon and I went to ride Finding Nemo again and Patrick took Connor to Test Track.

After Nemo, Eamon and I went to meet Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy!  Again, Eamon was thrilled in line, but once he saw Mickey, he was so nervous.  He pulled his hat over his face and said, "I covering my eyes."  Mickey was so sweet and started covering his eyes too!  Unfortunately, the photographer wasn't quite fast enough to catch it.

Eamon hiding from Mickey.

I guess this is a little better?

Get that finger out of your nose!

I was disappointed that the Goofy pictures were all SUPER blurry.  Bad form photographer!  Some of them even looked like they would have been cute.

This one of Eamon looking at Minnie is precious though.

After we got out of seeing characters, we met up with Patrick and Connor, whose sunscreen irritated eye was REALLY bothering him.  We knew we had some more time to kill, so we put Eamon on Patrick's back and Connor in the stroller, and went shopping a bit more.  On the way, both the boys passed out!  We picked up our packages and somehow managed to get the boys buckled while they were still asleep.  We drove to Disney Springs to the Hilton, unloaded all of our things with the help of some really nice valets, and Patrick checked us in.  After we parked, we got Eamon onto my back and Connor in the stroller, STILL asleep, and went to our very nice room.  We parked Connor in the corner and I laid Eamon on the bed... still asleep!

Then I took a bath :)

From the car to the hotel room...

On the hotel room bed.  Eamon loves putting stickers on his belly.

We had to wake the boys up at 6.  We went to meet Britni and Jerod for dinner at the Cuban restaurant and then walked the length of Disney Springs to go to the Ghirardelli ice cream store, which was across the walk from the awesome kids dancing stage!  From 6-10, they have a DJ playing music and doing games for kids to dance and have fun.  I think it might have been Connor's favorite thing of all of Disney World.  I wish we could find something even a little bit like it in Huntsville.

Cute plant art.

Waiting for the ferry at Disney Springs.

Friday we went to Animal Kingdom.  It was hot and humid and we were all pretty tired.  But we didn't have much planned for the day, mostly just our 4 FastPass rides.  The first was Kali River Rapids, which Connor called "Splish Splash Mountain."  Since Eamon and I couldn't ride on it, we went to go meet Mickey and Minnie again!  The photographer was great!  He could see how nervous Eamon was and let us hang out for a minute to get Eamon more comfortable.

First try.

Mickey and Minnie gave Eamon high fives.

Second try!  I love this picture, even with my ridiculous face.

After meeting the characters, we had time to kill, so Eamon and I got a snack.  I got a frozen chai that was amazing, and got Eamon and HUGE doughnut that he ate most of.

After eating his doughnut.

We met everyone and went to the Kilimanjaro Safari.  We hung out for a while, waiting for our FastPass time, eating and figuring out if we were going to eat lunch.  The ride was PACKED.  Even with the FastPass, it was quite a wait.  And unforunately for us, the people in front of us did not understand how to get on the ride and so the four of crushed onto a seat with another couple.  It was super uncomfortable and pretty dangerous, since Eamon kept moving around and the side I was sitting on was open.  We're also pretty sure we were on the shortened version of the ride, which was also disappointing.

After the safari ride, we went to "It's Tough to be a Bug,"  which Connor HATED.  Again, with the scary rides.  We actually ducked out a couple minutes early because he couldn't take it.

We made sure to take pictures in front of the tree, since we had gotten pictures with all the other icons.  The kids were not thrilled. 

After pictures, we went to eat lunch and then went shopping for a bit and saw the Flights of Wonder show.  Then we decided to call it quits on the parks.  The boys were tired and it was HOT.  We went back to Disney Springs to hang out before eating dinner and going to dance again.

The Lego store was super fun!

Yummy Earl of Sandwich!

We had a great time dancing again and even got some video of Connor and Eamon enjoying themselves.

My cute buddy.

Saturday we woke up, got packed up, and left before 9.  We drove all the way home, stopping at Cracker Barrel on the way for lunch.  What a great trip!  I'm so glad the Wootens let us stay with them.  I'm so thankful to Patrick for doing almost all of the driving.

Eamon asked for Daddy's glasses while
Connor and Patrick were in the bathroom.