We just got back form our trip, of course now we are all battling illness. My husband got the stomach bug the last day we were there, so we had to cancel pirates and pals and then breakfast at Tusker House, and I got it the day after we got back. Thankfully it seems to be a 24 hour thing. Now I have one kid with a horrible cough and another with a fever and general crankiness. Wanted to share our in-action shots.
Arrival Day, met Mickey and had dinner at 'Ohana (Mom and Dad shirts were re-used from last year.)
Day 2, Breakfast at the Castle and my little guy got his wish, to dance with Cinderella.
This is the only photo I got of my outfit that day, for some reason, we never got all 4 of us in the Halloween outfits once the boys changed.
And the boys Halloween outfits. They loved that they glowed in the dark on rides.
Our Toy Story day at Hollywood Studios. I got a ton of comments on my Serendipi-D bag, of course.
(Except for one CM in MK who stopped me to tell me he didn't get it.) My husband's shirt was done by Flora (purple ears) since my machine was broken. It says "I am your father" under Zurg.
Later that evening we went to
MNSSHP which was the start of the bad parts of our trip. About 5 minutes after this photo was taken (which btw we were the last family to see Mickey) the kid on the right threw up in the stroller. So by the time we left the MK we were the VERY LAST family out. They had to have a special bus come for us. It was horrible.
But! The highlight day of our trip was definitely Animal Kingdom and these Wilderness Explorer outfits. My husband stayed up until almost 4 a.m. doing laundry from the night before so they could wear them, and it was awesome. The first thing we did was visit Dug and Russell. It was hard to tell who was more excited, Dug and Russell or the boys. They did the Wilderness Explorer activities, which the kids loved and every single CM we encountered was over the moon about the outfits. They even had characters in the parade coming over to them and making the Wilderness Explorer hand gestures. I felt bad for the lithe girl standing next to them at the parade rope since she wasn't getting any of the attention they were. It was adorable.
For Epcot we had these shirts I did on my big machine which, after 6 months is finally fixed (I had to drive 5 hours round-trip to a service place in Wisconsin) but it worked. Now that I have pretty much decided to shut down my business and liquidate, so I will be selling the machine in all likelihood.
For dinner at Garden Grill the boys had Chip and Dale shirts. They LOVE Chip and Dale, and they had such great character interactions.
For their birthday we did 'Ohana breakfast, which was delicious as always, but we had the most underwhelming server ever. She wasn't rude or anything, just blah. And did nothing at all to make their birthday special.
and their special Birthday dinner, which was a huge hit. (and made up for the underwhelming breakfast) They were ecstatic about meeting the Beast.
(and yes, one kid ripped a button off before the end of dinner, they were only in these shirts about 2 hours.)
Our last full day we went to HS in the morning and the boys did the Jedi Training Academy, which they got the show that was just about the very last one we could do and rush over to MK for their pirates league appt.
I think they were nervous, they were holding hands.
They both defeated Darth Vader, which they tell anyone who will listen now. The littler one was too small for the robes so they had to knot them so he didn't trip.
Maybe on the photo pass I have a picture of me in my Star Wars shirt I made. I don't have a single one in my pictures. And my husband's Star wars bowling shirt ended up way too short. I felt bad since it was like a crop top but he wore it all day like a champ.
And Pirates league
We were supposed to go to the Pirates and Pals fireworks cruise that evening, but by the time Pirates League was done my husband was starting to feel nauseated, so we went to Guest Relations and canceled. Not only did they go above and beyond and cancel least minute, they gave my kids each a Jake and the Neverland Pirates telescope toy because they felt bad. Later that night when I went to the front desk at Kidani to cancel breakfast at Tusker house the next morning, the CM felt so bad about 20 minutes later she knocked on the door of our room with a bag of coloring books, crayons and coffee mugs.
All in all, more good than bad, but definitely some rough moments in there. Lots of Pixie dust though. I will be updating our photos and reports on my website, if anyone is interested (this, believe it or not is a very scaled down run through... I took almost 2000 photos and have anther 350 or so on photo pass.)
goteamwood.com so far I have the first 2 days up there, lots more to do!
so I will need to buy some fabric if I want to make a dress for her while I am here!
