Great Adventures! Part 2

Our last posting left the Princesses and the Knights on adventures around Disney and Kennedy Space Center. This adventure posting will bring more Disney and fun with friends!


I totally forgot a really fun part of our trip to Disney Hollywood Studios. Cam got chosen to be a part of the Lights, Motors, Action show. It was so much fun!! He did well and was a very polite Canadian kid! He had his pin collecting lanyard and got a pin that only kids in the show get. So 3 a day are given out, you can't buy these babies!

The Langs joined us on Thursday with our first stop being Epcot. We were all totally lucky to have found the characters right away and got Emily, Ethan and Sarah in to meet Mickey, Minnie and friends right out of the gate! The boys got in line for Mission:Space and then we got our fast passes for the Test Track (my fave at Epcot). After a brief stop in Canada, a wander through the UK and France we decided to have lunch in Morocco. What a great way to explore the world! We even saw the Nemo undersea exhibit and went Soarin' over California (the Test Track is still the best!). As we were leaving Morocco we got to have pics taken with Princess Jasmine and the men (Dwayne and Dan) were happy to stand along side for a photo! After lunch we headed over to the Magic Kingdom. WOW and that was only 1/2 of the day!


Magic Kingdom....castles, Princesses, rides, sun...what more could a group of kids ask for! The boys even got to ride in the front of the monorail with the driver!! With Emily being so little she couldn't do all the rides so we took turns staying back with her. By far her favorite was Uncle Dwayne as he would take her to the shop and let her try on hats and wigs...and take pics along the way!

This is a mish-mosh of pics but it's fun!!

Great Adventures! Part 1

We arrived home (ok, into Seattle) on Saturday night/Sunday morning. It had been a long leg of the journey flying from Atlanta to Seattle with 6 kids! I was not surprised at with our arrival and snow falling....let me explain...you see whenever (and this has happened for the past 14 years) my parents leave on spring vacation, usually to Mexico, it snows. I know, it's crazy but it totally happens!! Needless to say, my parents flew out on Saturday morning!!

We started out journey on Friday March 14th with an overnight stay in Seattle. Our flight left at 7 am on Saturday and we stopped (ever so briefly) in Chicago. Once we arrived in Orlando our shuttle took us to our hotel at Disney's Saratoga Springs. We blitzed Disney on Sunday and Monday and took Tuesday to do a pre-planned trip to Kennedy Space Center. Dwayne loves to do museums on our trips so this counted, or at least we convinced him it did! It was fantastic. The mobile launch pad on the massive crawler (with launchpad A in the background) was making its way down the gravel road to prepare for the next launch on April 15th. On Wednesday, it was a day for being somewhat lazy and hanging around. I had pre-booked an amazing experience for Dwayne ('cause I'm amazing!) to do the Richard Petty driving experience.

He drove a Nascar around the track (following an hour of instruction etc) for 10 laps and managed to top speeds of 122.21 miles per hour. The afternoon saw us hanging in the spa for our hot stone massages and then to dinner with the kids. The Langs flew into Orlando but caught up on their sleep before joining us on Thursday.

Oh yes, and the weather was mostly fantastic too! We had a rainy day and I had prepared for all things with 2 umbrellas and 4 ponchos (which actually got used to keep Sarah and I dry on the Kali River Rapids, while Dwayne and Cam we entirely soaked!).

More adventures to come!

Getting ready for holidays!

Today was a great day! I got to spend some of it with my friend Jenn and our daughter Sarah. On Saturday our family is jetting off to Florida and next Wednesday the Langs are joining us for 2 days at Disney and a week at Club Med. How excited are we???

Today the 3 of us could be found at the Wild Orange Spa. We HAD to have pedicures. For anyone that knows me (or cares!) I have an issue with feet. People who don't have nicely maintained feet shouldn't EVER wear flip-flops or strappy shoes. It's just an issue!!

Here is the after shot of our pretty feet....Sarah is wearing Holy Pink Pagoda, I'm in Don't Socra-tease Me, and Jenn is in Bogota blackberry (my all time fave). We even got jewels to make us sparkle!!