Our Trip to DISNEY WORLD!!!

We had so much fun, not enough time, and would do it all again in a second!!! Except the record-breaking heat. It was 95 degrees and 98% humidity in OCTOBER! Crazy!!! I have always enjoyed Disney, but never as much as seeing it through my own kids' eyes! Everything was completely new and exciting!

Since I have 106 pictures uploaded, here we go!!!!

FORT WILDERNESS

Sam and Jake playing while we got the campers set up...Our sweet ride to get us around the campground... it was fun to drive the carts - you have to dive off the road if a car comes up behind you and you can drive down sidewalks and pretty much anywhere you please... kept things interesting!

This is what camping is all about... RELAXING!!!!But this is what Disney is all about... go, go, go... and have FUN!!!! The campground had an awesome pool with an entire kiddie play area on top of the big pool with a BIG water slide and a normal kiddie pool!

Here's how we started out... completely SAFE!!!Within the first hour of being there, this is how we ended up... out of control and kamikaze!Yep, even my safe and cautious Sam!!!Sam DID get wise and put on his goggles though!!!

Mimi too!

Jake was NOT afraid to go on his own, but he sure did want everyone else to experience his joy with him!!! Don't you worry, Pop Pop and Mommy took turns too - just too many pictures to post!!!Have I mentioned that I LOVE my camera??? Look at Jake's face!!!! We had lots of fun here each afternoon!!!

Sam showing off his super swimming skills!!!

My little daredevil on the BIG slide (BJ's at the bottom to catch him) - first curve... doing good...Here's the second curve... what happened???? :-)He's caught and happy!

PS - Sam DID go down the BIG slide (willingly), but Mommy didn't do such a great job catching him at the bottom and he DID NOT want to do it again... I tried, but he screamed and cried! My bad... lesson learned!!!"I'na go gain Mimi!" (I wanna go again, Mimi!)

Fort Wilderness does a campfire sing-a-long each night. The kids really enjoyed it!Here we are waiting for it to start...YAY! We're singing!!!

During the Hokey Pokey, the guy singing stops after the second verse and says, "Sir in the white shirt, can you please turn around for me?" My dad looks up and the guy says, "Yes sir, you. Turn around for me." As my dad turns around, the guys says, "OK sir, one more turn and you'll be all caught up!!!!" It was hysterical... my dad did the Hokey Pokey the rest of the song!!!!Chip and Dale came out to take pictures with the kids... here's Dale!

THE MAGIC KINGDOM!!!

The famous castle picture that EVERYONE needs at Disney World!!!Waiting on our first ride... DUMBO!!!Off to ride the race cars!The Transit Authority...Pooh's house...Waiting to see Mickey!Mickey AND Minnie!!!The Jungle Cruise... Jake looks a little worn out!!!Riverboat ride...Whew... it's been a long day!Jake couldn't make it any further!Sam is tired, but hanging in there!DOWNTOWN DISNEY

One night, we decided to ride the monorail to downtown Disney.... One boat, two monorails and two buses later (and a little bit of waiting at a random hotel), we made it to Downtown!!! But, you know... the kids enjoyed riding the monorail just as much as the rides in the park! And we rode until they WANTED to get off!!!! ;-)

OK, so maybe it was TWO hotels we stopped at... but who's counting?

This is at the Contemporary... the boys wanted their picture with Mickey!We didn't eat here! (HAHA) But we got a picture, because it's just a cool place! The gift shop AND the restaurant - super cool!!!!

You know.... most people have the smiling pictures from restaurants..... that's just not us!!! This is WAY more typical!!!! The restaurant was really cool, though - it's called T-Rex, and has different dining rooms set up in different dinosaur eras... very creative - very Disney!!!

As long as Mimi and Pop Pop are around, Sam is a happy little guy.... except when the lights go down and it starts 'thundering and lightning' in the restaurant! Sam was not so much a fan of that!!! (Especially after the 'dark' rides at the Magic Kingdom!)Can you tell Jake is just a little tired?

ANIMAL KINGDOM

Here we are at the Animal Kingdom! (My favorite)

One of the nature/animal trails...

Look! It's a hippapotomas!!!

The African Village!The African Safari ride... my absolute FAVORITE! So many animals - just right there at your car! So cool!

Flick!

More nature trails... Sam kept asking, "When are we going to ride the next ride Mommy?"I want POOOOOOOP POOOOOOP!!!!!!! My poor dad gained 40 pounds this trip... and it's called Sam! Sam just wasn't happy unless he was with/near his Pop Pop!!!!

Bird watching! Out of hundreds of pictures, some just turn out really cool!

Our trail guides... Sam's just being difficult, I mean silly!!!!

Brothers...Yep... it's a big rhinocerous!Waiting to ride the Triceretops!Sam ALMOST won...It really looks like Sam's riding in the car with the dinosaurs, doesn't it? HAHA!

This time he WON... mainly because his only competition was Mommy!

The Tree of Life... this is the best family pic we could get... Sam was playing in my hair, it was late, it was hot... this was just it!!!!

They did much better!

The bug glasses for the bug movie...

My two little bugs were the cutest!

I had to take Sam out about the time the spiders came out of the ceiling... he DID NOT like this one!!! Poor little guy... I felt so bad for him!

The Affection Section.... they loved petting the animals!

Turk...Goofy...

Such ladies' men!!!Minnie...MICKEY!!!!Jake lost to the Animal Kingdom too! Poor little guy... he fell asleep on the bumpy safari ride! He just couldn't hold on ANY longer!!!Sam lost to the Animal Kingdom too!Actually, DISNEY won... this was our last day, and he was just exhausted! But in a good way!!!

I'm ready to go back!!!!!! It was such an AWESOME trip!!!!! Sam and Jake keep asking me when we're going back too... looks like I need to start planning!!!!