disney world

a little over a month ago gair and i were headed to the keys with some of our best friends.  if you remember back in march, he and i went to disney world with his whole family for elliot's 2nd birthday.  when we were there we bought a 2 day hopper pass that didn't expire and we only used 1 of those days while we were there in march.  since we had a 1 day hopper pass left we decided to leave a day early for orlando and spend a day at the most magical place on earth, disney world!

the weather wasn't the best on our way down.  it actually was horrible, it poured the entire way!

just being silly on our l.o.n.g. car ride!

my turn to just ride. phewww. tired of driving.

we arrived in orlando on thursday night and got up early on friday morning to head to animal kingdom (that was our favorite park when we were there in march, so we wanted to see what all we didn't get to see the first time).

he really can be sweet :)

going on the kilimanjaro safari ride in the rain to see all the cool animals

keep in mind there aren't any fences or boundaries between us and these animals on the safari tour.

this lioness wasn't looking to happy.  and again, there wasn't any fence or boundary between her and us. ahh!

after the safari we walked around the park for a little while looking at all the neat things and of course people watching, because that is one of the best things to do in disney world.  although it was raining on and off we had so much fun and were able to ride a few rides.  we even rode the Kali River Rapids (and i got soaked) of course gair barely got wet!

after the river rapids ride we decided to head back to our hotel, grab some dinner, and then head to magic kingdom for the evening.  we went to buffalo wild wings which was right near our hotel and had a little dinner before heading back to the magic kingdom.

when we got to magic kingdom, one of the first things you pass when you enter is the theatre where you can meet the princess'...well, the princess' that were there at that time to meet were Belle, Aurora, and Cinderella.  the wait time was only 25 minutes so gair agreed that we could get our picture taken with Belle and send it to elliot because that is her favorite princess.  well needless to say, that wait time was completely incorrect and we ended up waiting in line for over an hour.  i literally thought gair was going to die.  ha.  it was totally worth the torture of standing in line to watch all of these moms putting makeup on their toddlers and school age little girls just to get their picture taken with a princess.  i couldn't believe how these moms were taking this so seriously.  talk about living vicariously through your children.  

any who. it was all totally worth it because i got this picture.

and this sweet video from Belle herself, to our sweet little Elliot.

and we also got to see the real reason why disney world is such a magical place!

the fireworks at magic kingdom.

after the fireworks we walked around magic kingdom for a little bit and then headed back to our hotel for a good nights sleep for our l.o.n.g. drive the next day to the keys with all of our friends.

i will post about our trip in the keys here in the next few days.

off to watch gair's team kick some church softball booty.