Last Days At Disney

Our last few days at Disney were full of doing things we hadn't gotten to earlier in the week. We started out by going back to Hollywood Studios.

We rode on a cool Star Wars ride that Jeff had wanted to go on.

Then we went to the stunt car show that we missed the first time we were at Hollywood Studios. It was really cool!

After the show, we headed over to Animal Kingdom. The first time we were there is was raining, and we didn't get to walk around the Tree of Life, so we started there.

Then, since we liked the safari ride so much, we rode it again!

Ostrich eggs!

After the safari, we headed back to the condo so Lily could get ready to go to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique! Inside Cinderella's castle, there is a boutique where little girls can get their hair, make-up, and nails done by Fairy Godmothers in training. =) Lily was super excited. (So was her mommy...) She picked out a Cinderella dress for this since it was in Cinderella's castle.

She got her very own Fairy Godmother in training!

She started with her hair. She put all sorts of goop in her hair to make it stay back.

The hair style that Lily picked out came with a tiara. She got to choose the color of the rhinestones in it. She chose pink, of course. 

Then she got to choose between pink nail polish and blue nail polish. Again, she chose pink. :0)

After her nails were done, she got a make-up pallet and chose the color of her eye shadow and lip gloss.

The final touch was a wave of a magical wand to get pixie dust on her hair.

She also got a royal sash to wear!

Checking herself out in the mirror:

She also got a Cinderella bag that had the make-up pallet that was used on her, both pink & blue nail polishes, princess stickers, and more face jewel stickers.

Princess Lily:

She was so excited to show Jeff & the boys! They thought she was beautiful!

And what were the boys doing that whole time? They discovered Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom cards! Each day you can get a new pack of cards that has a key card to open "portals" throughout the park. 

There is also a map to help you find where the portals are. When you show your key card, an image shows up. Then it tells you what you need to do to defeat one of the Disney villains.

You have to choose which magical spell card you want to use on the villain to defeat them, then hold that card up. Then it tells you where you need to go next to defeat the next villain. They did all of the ones in the Fantasyland section of the park while Lily & I were at the boutique. They had so much fun doing it!

Since Lily was all princessed up, she wanted to see some princesses again. So, we headed back to the main Princess area to see Aurora, Belle, and Cinderella.

This time the boys wanted their pictures taken too! The princesses kept calling them knights that were protecting their sister. :0)

I just love this picture!

After all of the princess pictures, we went back to Hollywood Studios (we got our money's worth out of those park hopper passes this day!) to watch Fantasmic! It is a laser light show. It was really good. They had actual characters, but they also had lights showing pictures on water that was shooting up in the air.

The whole thing was a story about how Mickey likes good dreams, but the Disney villains wanted to take that away from Mickey. He ended up defeating the villains! Yeah Mickey! Then it was off to bed for this very tired family.

Our last day at Disney World, was spent all at Magic Kingdom. Lily knew that Tiana, The Frog Princess was there, but she had not seen her yet. So, we stood in line to see her & the boys went off to ride a ride. I had packed one of her princess dresses this day, but she said that she wanted to stay in her green dress because Tiana's dress was green. :0)

By the time that we got to see Tiana, the boys were back, and when Tiana saw them, she told them to get over there to take a picture with her! 

Next up was one of the only rides we hadn't ridden yet; Splash Mountain.

Then it started raining. But that didn't stop us! We rode some more rides, and finished Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom quests in all of the sections of the park. Then we watched the Rainy Day Parade, since it was still raining.

Goofy gave the boys fives!

I just included this picture because I loved all of the characters made out of bushes throughout the parks.

While we were at Disney World, we let the kids pick out souvenirs. One of the things we let them pick out was a Christmas ornament. Every year, they get to pick out a new ornament before Christmas and I write their name and the year on it. Jeff & I decided that it would be fun if their ornament came from Disney this year. These are the ornaments they picked out.

Riley picked out one that has all of the characters from Disney:

Zach's has mouse ears and has the main symbol for each of the 4 parks:

And Lily picked out a Princess one, of course:



And that was our last day at Disney. Six fun-filled, days. =)

Magic Kingdom

On Wednesday, we went to my favorite park, Magic Kingdom. A few years ago, when we went to Disneyland, I took this picture of the kids in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle:

Look how little they were! =)

This is the picture I took of them last week in front of Cinderella's castle:

This picture took considerably less time than the first one since they can sit still longer now. =)

And here's their fronts, in case you wanted to see their faces:

And I had to throw this one in because her pose cracks me up. This is her "princess pose". 

After our photo shoot, Jeff took the boys to ride big kid rides, and Lily & I walked through the castle and saw these 3 on the other side!

Cinderella's stepmother & stepsisters! They told Lily her mouse ears looked better with the veil over the ears. ;0)

After we left them, we looked at the times guide to see if there were any other characters she wanted to see. That's when we saw Rapunzel was there! Lily LOVES Rapunzel. She was very sad that I had forgotten to pack her Rapunzel dress though. :0( I told her she looked like a princess without it, so that made it better. ;0) Before she got to see Rapunzel, she got to see Paschal, her chameleon.

Rapunzel was SO nice. She asked Lily if she was a princess or a mouse. Lily assured her she was a princess, she just had mouse ears on her hat. So, Rapunzel put Lily's mouse ears on her head! Lily thought that was so funny!

I am so glad she got to see her, she was one of the princesses that she really wanted to meet. The other princess that she really wanted to see was Ariel. We got in line to see her right before she took a break. Whew!

I only have pictures of Lily hugging Ariel. She hugged all of the princesses, but then she would pose with them. But she would not let go of Ariel. Seriously. I had to practically drag her away.

After Ariel & Prince Eric, we met up with Jeff & the boys who were in line to see Pirate Goofy!

Since the boys had on their pirate shirts, and they had their pirate mouse hats on, I had to take another picture of them in front of the Pirates of the Caribbean flag!

After all of that picture taking, we rode rides together, and then went to see this show in front of the castle:

It was really cute & Lily and I loved it, but Jeff & the boys did not stay for it. Apparently riding Space Mountain is more fun than watching characters dancing around. ;0)

While we waited for the boys to find us, Lily & I wandered into this store & Lily had to get her picture taken in front of Princess Minnie!

After the boys found us, Riley informed me that he really wanted his picture taken while trying to pull the sword from the stone. So, we headed over to it so he could give it a try.

Then we caught the end of the afternoon parade!

After the parade, we headed to the train. We had ridden it halfway around the park one day, but Riley wanted to ride it the whole way, so we got on to ride all the way around the park!

As we were coming back to the front of the park, Riley saw Pluto out front and said we had to hurry to get in line to take a picture with him. By the time we got out front, he was gone. =( But, Chip & Dale were there! Riley decided that they were just as good as Pluto, so he got his picture taken with them instead.

Lily kissed Dale's nose:

Even Zach posed with them!

After that, we headed back to the condo to rest up for another fun filled day!