Friday, September 12, 2008

DISNEY



We made so much of our Disney trip that it's hard to fit it in to one post...but I'll try! The story first...pictures second....Jordan, Diane and Aidan McCollum joined us for the trip. They're our good friends from California. It was wonderful to have them along. They're perfect travel buddies. Barclay was very sad when they left - really, he took a few hours and mourned their return to California. Aidan is Addison's age - they are just a a couple of weeks apart in age. Diane and Jordan's daughter Ashley just started college and couldn't make it. She was mad at her parents for leaving her behind! We stayed at Saratoga Springs. It was a perfect set up with 2 bedrooms and a kitchen. The hotel had a wonderful pool and a playground, and it was walking distance from downtown Disney. Barclay was already in Orlando for a conference and the girls and I travelled down to meet him on Friday. They did fine on the plane. Jordan and Diane met us later that night. We went to Epcot for dinner and fireworks on Friday night. Saturday was spent at Magic Kingdom; Sunday morning we had breakfast with the Little Einsteins - big stuff - then toured Hollywood Studios. Sunday night Barclay and I had our date night at Fulton's crab shack in downtown disney. On Monday we spent the day at Animal Kingdom and then Jordan and Diane had their date night on Monday night. Tuesday we were at Epcot ALL DAY. It was my favorite day. In the morning we did all of the kid stuff - nemo ride and aquarium, imagination station, dinasaur exhibit, etc. Then in the afternoon we took a booze cruise around to all of the different countries in the "world exhibit". The rule was that you had to have a drink from each country we passed by. There are 11 countries and we probably made it to 6 or 7 of them. It was fun. That night we had dinner with the princesses. The kids LOVED it. They got to meet Ariel (when she was human), Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, and Jasmine. Continuing Lily's boob obsession, she grabbed Jasmine's boob. Too funny - we didn't even notice until we saw the pictures! On Wed it rained and Jordan and Diane left to go back to California. That night we went back to Magic Kingdom. It rained while we were there, but we managed to see a few things that we hadn't seen on Saturday. We went to a Monster's Inc show and Addy made it on TV. Lily was jealous. We also went on a toy story ride. Then on Thursday before our plane left we went to downtown disney and then hung out at the pool. We got back to Indy late Thurs night. This morning Lily woke up sick. We took her to the doc and it's strep - talk about jumping right back in to the real world! Anyway, we had a wonderful time! Here are just a few of the 25o pictures I took :)









6 Comments:

At 5:53 PM , Blogger Jeff, Katie and Gabby said...

Looks like you guys had a blast! So glad you are back! Boo....Lily is sick! We all need to get together soon!

 
At 7:30 PM , Blogger Ariana said...

Awww, it sounds like you guys had tons of fun. Poor Lily- I blame all those germy kids in Disney. But be sure that Buddha picture is making to the walls of my apartment. And possibly Barclay & Addy on the star wars plane, because only he could go to disney and find a Star Wars ride...

 
At 9:06 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

These will be memories for a lifetime. To see things through the wonder and awe of kids.
Glad you all had a great time.

Gramps and Grams

 
At 7:00 PM , Blogger Melissa said...

This looks like so much fun! My favorite is the picture of Lily with her tummy out!

 
At 8:47 PM , Blogger kj said...

Hey it's me (the mom of the Lily & Addy from Oklahoma). We went to Disneyland this summer for Lily's 5th and the girls just loved it!!! It looks like you all had a blast too!!

 
At 8:29 PM , Blogger Taryn said...

Looks like a blast! :)

 

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