Kiddie Coaster

 

We moved onto the next ride with Goofy’s  kiddie rollercoaster. This is one of the rides I had never, ever ridden before. Again, very short wait time.

Sister had to measure up for some rides.  Sometimes, like this time, she made the cut. Other times, she didn’t.   That bow sure came in handy on a few rides where it was questionable whether or not she was tall enough..

Here we go, up the main hill.  You can barely see the pink bow.

As we go around the big curve.  It really wasn’t that big, but it seemed big to the little people.  This coaster had a lot of these turns that lean in.   C. was not impressed. At all. In fact, it is quite safe to say that he didn’t like this ride one. single. bit.  He doesn’t like the feel of the car leaning over in the curves. I know Sister liked it and I think D. kinda liked it.  He was on the fence about it.

Hundred Acres..

 

We decided to pay a visit to Pooh Bear and Piglet, and Eeyore, and Tigger and of course Christopher Robin.

This actually happened to be one of the longer waits for us.  Turns out the long wait was due to a system malfunction and they ended up shutting the ride down for a few hours.  Thankfully the offspring had plenty of things to do to keep from protesting the wait. We ended up moving on and eventually came back to this one later on.

This is the addition to Fantasy Land I mentioned in the last post. 

So, I have some news.  Just when I think  I’m getting settled into a new home routine, God throws me a curve ball.  I have all the kids in school, the same school mind you, and I’m thinking about how I will have the house all to myself everyday and I can get my chores done without interruptions constantly and work on projects, and how calm it will all be.  Then BAM!  Curve ball.  I got a phone call Tuesday morning from a friend asking if I would be the new Pre-K 3 teacher at our church’s Mothers Day Out program.  Wow.  Wasn’t expecting that.  I hemmed and hawed about it and called J. and we hemmed and hawed together about it and finally came to the decision that I could probably handle it.  Its three days a week from 9:30 to 2:30.  Sooooo, I called them back and accepted the offer. My mind has been reeling ever since.  You probably thought I was going say I was pregnant didn’t you???? 

Welcome to Fantasy Land…

After walking through the castle we emerged in my absolute favorite part of WDW…Fantasy Land.  Well, Fantasy Land  AND Main Street. I love the look and feel of this part of the park.  They were adding an addition to Fantasy Land while we were there.  Its going to have a mini-rollercoaster themed ride with the 7 Dwarfs.  Think along the lines of a runaway mine cart..it should be beat when its finished.  Guess we will have to go back to find out huh??

Our first ride to enjoy was Cooper’s all time favorite.  I say “all time” like the kid has been a bunch of times… he’s only been once before. But, we rode this ride over and over the last time so it HAD to be first this trip:  Peter Pan’s Flight!

Then we popped across the street for one of my favorites:  It’s A Small World.  Notice the wait time…

Last time we went it was the end of summer and those lanes were packed with folks.  This time we went in May and the wait time was awesome.  Sometimes we were able to get on immediately like this time.  Other times we only waited 15 to 20 minutes!!  It was great considering how the last time we went, there were times we waited in line for 2 hours!!  I love this ride because of all the colors and countries to see.  I don’t like this ride because for hours and hours after getting off I can’t get that song out of my head…

Looking at these pics makes me want to go again..now.

..and I’m back…..

Well, summer is over and we are back to the school routine.  I got some of my goals accomplished on my hiatius. I got all the blog posts published in books up to the year 2011.  That was as far as I could go.  I can’t make a post then go upload in a book like I wanted. So, at the end of this year, I will be doing the 2012 book.  I also learned something while getting the blog published: stick to four or five pics per entry.  It just makes the layout in the book go much easier, and right now I need easy.  I was enjoying putting more than 4 pics at a time on the posts, but it was such a hassle to get them on a page layout for a book that I was about to go crazy!!! I got some of the yearbooks of pictures made as well.  Right now I am about to start on year 2005.  I worked on a new furniture project which is still not finished , but getting closer! It’s an old buffett that I am converting into a tv stand.  It had been painted grey and white, so I had to strip it down. Now I have to go and fill in some gashes and holes with putty then stain it… We had a super busy summer with all kinds of kid camps, and vacations, and projects.  School started back two weeks ago and Sister started with her bubbies this year.  My house is very quiet and a tad lonely.  I’m getting used to it though and pretty soon I’ll be busier than ever.  Each kid is starting fall activities soon.  I’m going to have a soccer player, a baseball player and a dancer. 

I believe I left off in July with posts on our Disney trip, so that’s where I will start up.  After we walked up Main Street among the throng of families just like ourselves, we decided to get one more family pic. We thought it would look nice in front of the castle. Also, because all the other families were doing it and we figured we should.  So. We got ourselves positioned the way we wanted.  A kind stranger offered to take one of all of us, so we accepted her offer. This is what we got:

Maybe I expect too much, but when I think of a family pic in front of Cinderella’s castle, I kind of imagine the WHOLE castle in the pic and the WHOLE face of all the family members as well.  I don’t know, maybe its just me….

Thanks kind stranger for your help..but don’t quit your day job.

Having a few time management issues around here. There seriously are not enough hours in the day to get everything done. Daily cleaning. Feeding the herd. Washing clothes. Taxiing the herd to respective camps and dr. appointments. Feeding the herd. Folding all washed clothes.  Swimming pool. ( I really like that one!)  Taking the herd grocery shopping, which is always an adventure I assure you! Feeding the herd. (Seems like Ive already mentioned that one)..anyway. Im swamped. Not in a bad way, just very busy.  By the time my day is done, well it never really is, but by the time the kids are in bed I'm headed to my "cubby hole" as J. calls it.  My cubby hole is my bed with pillows propped up behind me and Ipad in my lap. I check email the read on my Kindle app. By the time I get there, Im pooped! too tired to think of something cute and funny. Too tired to WAIT on our slooow internet service to upload the pics and then publish what I write. So, with that being said, please understand why i'm going to take a break. Just until school starts back. Just a month and half.  When I come back, I'll have a whole summer to share. :)

While Im "breaking" I want to organize all our old digital pics into photo books.  The kids love to look at old pictures. i have started scapbooks for all of them. You think any of the books are finished..not even close! Making a digital photo book is way faster and then they will have something to look at!  They dont read the blog, mainly due to the fact that there are several Santa, Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy spoilers in there!! So they dont see all the pics everyone else does.  i want them to enjoy the pictures too.  So, my computer guru is moving old pictures from our big computer to my laptop so i can get that job finished for them.  Another task to do is get all the bolg posts published into a book.  My goal is to have all 645 posts in a book. That way, when I start back after school, I can post then turn around and upload into a waiting book and not get behind.   Proof that I don't have much time..I sat down at 3:50..in the nine minutes its taken me to post this Sister had come in four times asking if Im done yet so we can play playdoh! :)  see you soon!

 

As any good theme park go-er knows, the first thing to do, is map out the day…they wasted no time time in doing just that:

The first character we saw was Pluto.  Sister would have NOTHING to do with getting his autograph or posing for a picture.

Here we all are posing for the very orginial group shot on Main Street.  Noboby ever does that.  Weren’t we creative!?

Sister is getting her first glimpse of the castle up close….

 

Magic Kingdom! Day two and we were ready to go..

The Mouse…

The opening ceremonies end with some impressive confetti explosions and many popular characters singing.

I loooooove Main Street , USA.  One of these days I am gonna spend a day on just Main Street and go into each and every single shop.  Just to see and say I did.  I love everything about it.  The Victorian look of the buildings is my absolute favorite thing. I think I could go every year and never get tired of it.