cheetara
Mouseketeer
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- Mar 22, 2007
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Ok folks here is day 7 of our adventure. The day started off relatively quiet with 7:30 AM wake up / coffee by the pool for me. Kiddos were quiet this morning watching some cartoons, and playing. They've been quiet since yesterdays incidents at Universal with the crying and what have yous at the park. So quiet is good right now for me. DH finally wanders out of the bedroom and we have coffee together and read some literature and brochures on what we want to do today.
We decide after yesterday we were going to take it easy today, and just relax and poke around in Kissimmee and see whats happening down there.
So around 11 we get going and hit a Cici's at noon time and have aquick bit to eat there. Wish I took pixs because the kids acted like I've starved them all week and after 5 platefuls for each of them they were finally full!
DH wants to head over to the Kissimmee airport to see a little world war II airplane museum. So we head over there, and scope it out. It's a little museum but really good if your into airplanes and history. We get to see some planes getting to flyout and we watch them for awhile, and then we find out about another hanger with some more planes and we wander on over to see them.
we get to this plane getting ready to take off at the other hanger. The pilots were really nice and talked with the kids about staying in school and they could fly cool planes for a job too. After they took off, we wandered that hanger too and got to see a couple more planes
. Since we were in the area we decided to head to DownTown Disney since the kids had some Disney Dollars to use. We parked there and heading into the Market Place I saw this really neat shrub in the shape of Mickey.
Gosh I wish I could do that at home! Any hoo we head into the marketplace and go into the Disney store WOW talk about overwhelming! So I snap this for the boys
and my DS 11 snapped this in the store too
Since both DS are huge pirate fans. They got a huge kick out the pirates. We headed around to the Lego store and the kiddos ohhh and ahhhh over the Lego sea monster in the lagoon.
and headed into the store to play with the legos. Once they got bored we headed to the $10 or less disney souvenior store which is a great fine if anyone is looking for cheap WDW souveniors, and they boys purchased grab bags filled with stuff for $7 disney dollars each. They got a bunch of stuff disney related and this appeased them of WDW cravings. We hit the pressed penny stations around the area for me and my scrapbook and decide we have had enough for the day and head back home to the house.
kids decide to jump into the pool, DH catches up on work related stuff, I lounge by the pool and have a drink. Man I can really get into this life 
I really do like it down there, and hubby joins me by the pool for relaxing evening and a couple drinks. So this ends day 7 for us. I'm getting sad though because we have one final day left and it's disappointing to realize that. 
We decide after yesterday we were going to take it easy today, and just relax and poke around in Kissimmee and see whats happening down there. So around 11 we get going and hit a Cici's at noon time and have aquick bit to eat there. Wish I took pixs because the kids acted like I've starved them all week and after 5 platefuls for each of them they were finally full!
DH wants to head over to the Kissimmee airport to see a little world war II airplane museum. So we head over there, and scope it out. It's a little museum but really good if your into airplanes and history. We get to see some planes getting to flyout and we watch them for awhile, and then we find out about another hanger with some more planes and we wander on over to see them.
I really do like it down there, and hubby joins me by the pool for relaxing evening and a couple drinks. So this ends day 7 for us. I'm getting sad though because we have one final day left and it's disappointing to realize that. 
So hubby wraps up and joins me by the pool and we watch the kids play in the pool and enjoy ourselves for the moment. We decide to head over to I-Drive to see what was can over there, especially WonderWorks. We get ready to go and head on over there. This place is amazing! The whole building is pretty cool with all the little details, and sound effects of creaking building. Here is the outside of the building.
for a bit. If you get a chance to go, go! It really is cool to see some of the things, and play around with the items. The shadow wall, flying the space shuttle or a aircraft, etc. 
Did I mention he's a sweetie?? Any hoo we head on over and park the car, do the writing of the final parking spot and walk over to the Univeral store. DSS 17 finds a really good bargain on a shirt and he gets a free photo album. So he picks up a disposable camera too. We off to IOA and ride JPRA with all of us! WOO HOOO Get into line and once again the wait time says it's 40 minutes, but at the most we waited 15 minutes. We get the back seat, whew thank goodness! We strategically position the little kids between hubby and I to "protect" them from the T-rex. And a way we went. (Now i have to say I LOVE THIS RIDE so since i don't have a pic us riding this now, i insert one from before.)
I was good and did't say anthing, but I look over and see DS 8 hanging onto his dad's hand. Ahhhhh I'm thinking to myself. We head up the ramp of the ride, and hubby is exclaiming it's pretty cool, and getting a kick out of everything. Again, I hear DS 8 explaining to his dad on what is coming up next! We make the turn from the spitting dinos, and DS 8 sees the T-Rex (by the way this was his 3rd time riding this too) and whispers to dad " DAD, hold on to me cause your gonna be scarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred" warning to late as we plunge down past t-rex and out into the sunshine. This time luckily we didn't get wet to much. Hubby loved that ride too, and once again we tell each other we have to come by ourselves next time. COOOL 
this just does not happen to me. . . and I look at DH very questioning and asking if this is ok to do? We graciously accept the passes and thank the very nice man. If it doesn't work oh well right 
So we discuss what we want to do and I request the mummy ride! Come on people I want to ride the darn mummy ride. So we head there and 2 of the kids refuse to ride, no problem the attendent tells us after we flash our passes at him and he tells us about child swap. Get out! So we head into the ride, and head up the to area and drop DSS 17 and 11 off with our stuff that can't go on and hubby, DS 8, and me load on to ride. Now i have to tell you what happended next. The 3 of us are on the ride waiting to take off and we take off and I hear hubby exclaim "Joe is that you who stinks?" we smell something stinky and hear joe giggle in the dark "yeah i tooted cause I'm scared!" 
I burst out laughing so hard, and I hear hubby trying not to laugh and tell him not to do that again and then we plunge into the darkness and the thrilling ride this was. Joe is yelling awesome as we're rolling around, and lunging all over. WHAT, yes this is the same kid who cried 3 days before to get off the ride. So thank you nice man who gave us the express passes 
man that ride was great, even hubby liked it alot. We get off grab the other two and head into the shop. Saw our pix but didn't get it cause you can't even see Joe in the picture. We get our pressed penny and head off to MIB and ride that. Only 4 go on this, and hubby waits outside and we do this again with Mom whipping some kiddie butt (mine of course!) which I need to really scrapbook that event so no one forgets that. We head off that ride and grab Hubby, who is not looking to hot by now. He's hungry and getting a headache. He grabs a popcorn and soda just in time as all the stalls were closing up since it was 5 by now and I see Jaws has a wait time of 30 minutes, OOPs I have fast pass cool again as we flash this and off we go. Mug and Hubby don't ride this and DSS 17 and DS 8 and ride this as it's good. Not great, but good. We continue on with our travels and head on to Jimmy Neutron ride and express pass that too. This is a really cute ride, and if your tummy is empty not good. Hubby did not feel good after this and we decided to head out and end our day here on a high note. 
Yes my hubby thinks I'm weird. So this ends our 1st wonderful journey to Universal & FL. I hope it will not be our last and we pack up the car to head on home. The next 2 days end up being the same way as it was driving down. So this ends our adventure and I'm still wishing I was in FL though 
