Sunday, January 25, 2009

Disney World!

Where do I begin? We had a wonderful trip to Florida and got to stay with my sister and her family. (Thank you again!)

We ran from one park to the next....we were tired! We started in Animal Kingdom. They've added a lot to this park since I've been there.The tree of life

Do you see the baby elephant? So cute!

The meerkats sunbathing! Hakuna Matata!

T-I-Double G-ER
Everest was a fun ride-kind of a mix between the Materhorn and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Dinosaur was pretty fun too, similar to the Indiana Jones Ride in Disneyland but with dinosaurs. :)
Next stop.......Epcot

Kenyan has a picture just like this from his mission, he thought he could have just served here instead. :)

Kenyan had fun reminiscing in the Japan part of Epcot. We ate sukiyaki at one of the little restaurants in Japan and Kenyan said it was exactly like what they serve in "real" Japan. In one of the shops you can pay to pick a clam, so we did and I got a beautiful shiny pink-white pearl...that's what they called it. It was cool to watch them open the clam and get the pearl out.

"Fish are friends, not food!"

We had a lot of fun riding Soarin' and Turtle Talking with Crush. Kenyan barely survived Mission Space. We chose to be part of the Orange Team, the more intense team. Kenyan thought it would just be more shaky, not so. It really feels like you are taking off. For those of you who remember the Gravitron in the 49th Street of Galleria-that's what it is. It was fun! We were really excited to ride Test Track, but we were not so impressed. The last part of the ride is fun, but the first part is kind of lame.
Our Favorite.....Hollywood Studios

In front of Mickey's Sorcerer Hat with my nephew and niece, Matthew and Makenzie.

Our new favorite ride: Rockin' Rollercoaster. The first time we rode this ride we got the front row! Love that!

Our picture on Rockin' Rollercoaster.


Our other new favorite ride, (yes we are allowed to have two) the new Toy Story ride. It is similart to the Buzz Lightyear ride in that you are shooting at targets, but in this one you wear 3-D glasses and stop in front of different screens with different targets to shoot at. The accuracy and details are remarkable! Definately a must ride.

Last Stop.....Magic Kingdom

Cinderella's castle

Dumbo the flying elephantKenyan having a showdown with GoofyPocahontas is not one of my favorite movies, but I love Meeko!

We didn't spend too much time in Magic Kingdom, but we did have a fun time. We went to the Monster's Inc. laugh floor, Kenyan was afraid they were going to put him in the spotlight, but no worries, we were in the safe zone.

We had quite the adventure home, we didn't want to come home, but we were relieved to finally make it. Instead of flying from Orlando to Salt Lake we went Orlando-Atlanta-LA-Salt Lake. We went from coast to coast, what a trip! Luckily, we made it on each of those flights and didn't get bumped on any of them. The stress of making the cleared list was a little much, but we made it. Kenyan had quite the adventure on the Atlanta-LA leg, but that's a whole other story!

Thanks again Tiffany, David, Matthew and Kenzie-we miss you!

5 comments:

Lu said...

This gets me even more excited to go! Looks like you had a great time!

Shanda Mattsson said...

WOW! So much fun! I am so jealous! Looks like you guys had such a great time! Enjoy your last day off. See you tomorrow!

Bobette said...

Fun! You guys are so cute! Good luck going back to school!

Cookie, Jason, Olivia, and Mya said...

How fun I am very very jealous!!!

Becky @ Babes in Hairland said...

Looks like you guys had a fun time! I'm so jealous ... still need to take the girlies once the "babe" is past nap stage! :) Love the one of you kissing the fish!