Long Weekend at Disney

The weekend after MLK we had a three day weekend at school. Jacob had a mandatory work day, so he wasn't able to join us until that afternoon. We decided to leave Kaitlyn at home and enjoy spending time with our big girl. We were visiting WDW with the Pearsons so Renee and I loaded up the girls and all of our luggage and headed to our hotel, Port Orleans French Quarter, on Friday morning. Jacob and Stephen were going to join us that afternoon at the hotel.

We immediately checked in and our rooms were ready. After dropping off the luggage we rode the bus to Animal Kingdom. It was a great day out and we did just a few of our favorite things. We rode the safari, took the train to Rafiki's Planet Watch, and saw the Lion King show. We headed back to the hotel to wait for the dads to arrive and let the girls take a nap.

After their nap we all headed down to the pool and hot tub. We spent some time here and then we were headed to Epcot for the night.

At Epcot we walked around the World Showcase and had dinner. The girls' favorite place was Mexico where they tried on all kinds of sombreros. We ate dinner in Morocco (my favorite) and finished walking the entire World Showcase. We were exhausted and headed back to the hotel to prepare for the Magic Kingdom on Saturday!

On Saturday we got up early and headed to the MK to ride on all our favorite rides. The girls rode the carousel, Peter Pan, It's a Small World, Tom Sawyer's Island, Haunted Mansion, and the train to see Mickey and Minnie's houses. We left around lunch time and headed back to the hotel so we could go to the pool. It was a nice warm day out and we wanted to make sure we had pool time!

The girls loved the pool and Mady especially loved going down the big slide by herself. Jacob would go down first and then wait for her at the bottom. After a few hours at the pool we headed back to the rooms and took naps so that we could see the SpectroMagic parade at MK.

We headed back out to MK for the nightime parade and had a great viewing area, complete with popcorn, soda, and light up Mickeys. After the parade we went to Toon Town to see the princesses and fairies. While we were visiting during the day the wait was almost an hour. This time we waited no more than 15 minutes! It was awesome and the girls loved seeing the princesses and Tinkerbell and friends.

The next day we had breakfast at the Swan and saw Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale. We love this breakfast and look forward to it each time we stay at Disney. After breakfast we drove to MGM and caught the Beauty and the Beast Show. There's not much else to do at MGM so we said goodbye to our friends and headed home!

We had a great time at Disney and loved that the weather was warm enough to enjoy the pool. The girls loved being together and riding all the rides and seeing the princesses. We loved spending time with just our big girl and promise to take KK with us so