My Son Loves Halloween...5/5 3 updates! Main Street, castle, statue photos

[kathleen27]

Heading back to the room.

Funny I took a photo of the Mickey phone at the begining of this day, the end of this day, and the begining of the next day.

 

[Happy Elf]

Love the Pop pictures! It's getting me ready to go!
The window is cute! DD asked me the other day if we could go to WDW for Halloween, made me think of you and Jacob. It really put idea's into my head of having a mother/daughter trip when she is a little older.

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Hi Kathleen!

Great photos of the resort and the pool area! about the towels but at least Jacob went back for them!
for going swimming in the first place when you didn't want to! You should be nominated for Mother of the Year for sure!

Di x

 

[kathleen27]

Love the Pop pictures! It's getting me ready to go!
The window is cute! DD asked me the other day if we could go to WDW for Halloween, made me think of you and Jacob. It really put idea's into my head of having a mother/daughter trip when she is a little older.

Thanks!
Halloween was lots of fun!
I was reading something & thinking of great mother daughter trips to Disney, but my Hannah would probably prefer someplace else.

Hi Kathleen!

Great photos of the resort and the pool area! about the towels but at least Jacob went back for them!
for going swimming in the first place when you didn't want to! You should be nominated for Mother of the Year for sure!

Di x

I knew once I got to the pool I'd relax, and sleep better because of it.

 

[kathleen27]

We leave for Ft. Lauderdale Monday!!!

We're staying with my Dad & stepMom

Here's a view from their balcony from 2006, the last time we were there.

They live in a condo on the beach!

With a pool!

The kids have requested a trip to Lion Country Safari while we are there.

I should probably be packing or getting ready for Easter.

Instead I though I would update.


Finally we are on Day 3 of the trip!!!!
We were really looking forward to this morning!!!!
We had an 8:05 ADR for Crystal Palace, so we were going to enter the Magic Kingdom an hour before it opened!!!

We got a wake up call from Stitch. Jacob listened to it, didn't come through on the speaker setting.

First picture of the day.

We made it to the bus stop just after 7am. And saw these hot air ballons flying by.

We arrived at the MK at 7:30am.

Not too much of a line, but we were here mainly to take photos, so we didn't head over to the gate just yet.

Some roses.

The displays I could not get a photo of on Friday afternoon.

The Grand Floridian looked beautiful across the water.

Palm trees.

Someone else with early breakfast plans.

He thought the display would be a good breakfast.

He didn't seem to mind how close we were.

By now it was 7:40 and they had let everyone in to the park.
We headed on in too!!!

 

[MeMom]

The displays I could not get a photo of on Friday afternoon.

I went to this year before last and would love to go again this year, but sadly, it is not to be. I have a full week break in October, so of course I want to make a Disney trip, but no one else can go at that time.

All of your pictures of the kids together are so sweet.

You guys have a great Sunday!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Great pictures! I love the ones of Jacob waiting by the bus stop and then on the bus...they make me want to be there right now! Gotta love those early morning bus rides to the parks.

Happy Easter and have fun in Ft. Lauderdale!

 

[jmskinner]

Another update! Love all the pics of the resort. You obviously love the Mickey phone. I have one of those somewhere. My stepdad gave it to me in high school. Mine is touchtone, my Mom has the older version. Both are smaller than the one in your pic.

Hope you are having a fantastic time in Ft. Lauderdale.

 

[irky416]

Great pictures from Pop. It's so fun there. I would have swam in the bowling pin, too!!

The rabbit is too cute!

I hope you're having fun in Ft. Lauderdale!

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Hi Kathleen and Jacob!

Lovely update and photos - especially the cute bunny!

Have a great time in Ft Lauderdale!

Di x

 

[Lovemy3babes]

I loved your early morning MK pictures. Have a great time in Ft. Lauderdale!

 

[kathleen27]

I am not used to the keyboard on a laptop so my typing is awful, and I keep hitting the arrows instead of the shift key. Also keep managing to make huge jumps that I can't explain.

I went to this year before last and would love to go again this year, but sadly, it is not to be. I have a full week break in October, so of course I want to make a Disney trip, but no one else can go at that time.

All of your pictures of the kids together are so sweet.

You guys have a great Sunday!

Thanks!
I would love to have a week off in October. My kids have a week each in Feb & April. I would want to go to Disney every Oct too.

Great pictures! I love the ones of Jacob waiting by the bus stop and then on the bus...they make me want to be there right now! Gotta love those early morning bus rides to the parks.

Happy Easter and have fun in Ft. Lauderdale!

Thanks!
They make me want to be there too!
Though I can't complain since I am still in Ft. Lauderdale.

Another update! Love all the pics of the resort. You obviously love the Mickey phone. I have one of those somewhere. My stepdad gave it to me in high school. Mine is touchtone, my Mom has the older version. Both are smaller than the one in your pic.

Hope you are having a fantastic time in Ft. Lauderdale.

Thanks!
That's cool that you have a Mickey phone.
We are!

Great pictures from Pop. It's so fun there. I would have swam in the bowling pin, too!!

The rabbit is too cute!

I hope you're having fun in Ft. Lauderdale!

Thanks!
Jacob loved swimming in the bowling pin!
We are!

Hi Kathleen and Jacob!

Lovely update and photos - especially the cute bunny!

Have a great time in Ft Lauderdale!

Di x

Thanks!
Jacob pointed out to me that I posted the bunny pics, the night before Easter!
It's beautiful here in Ft. Lauderdale.

I loved your early morning MK pictures. Have a great time in Ft. Lauderdale!

Thanks!
We are having a great time!

 

[kathleen27]

We are still in Ft. Lauderdale and having a great time. If I can figure out the copy and paste I will post some pics. I am on my Dad's laptop, and I miss having a mouse.

We spent the first few days back and forth between the beach & the pool.

Jacob relaxing on the balcony. He said "I could get used to this."

Here is his view.

Having fun in the ocean.

A little girl on the beach nicknamed Jacob "scuba boy".

Hannah giving a thumbs up!

Scenery shots:

More balcony shots.
"Charlie" lounging.

The light was shining through with an amazing pattern.

Hannah in the pool. I love this photo.

The kids got one use waterproof cameras in their Easter baskets. You can see Hannah holding hers. They had a great time taking underwater photos.

My step brother was also in town with his sons age 9 & 11, they headed home today. My step sister lives 10 minutes away and has a two year old son. Jacob and Hannah had a great time playing with their cousins in the pool and at the beach.

On Friday 10 of us headed over to Lion Country Safari.
We had a great time.

Yesterday just Jacob and I headed over to Butterfly World.
Its Beautiful there. We took tons of photos.
Hannah did not want to go. She said she would be bored since we'd be taking pictures.
Also the butterflys scare her a bit. There are a lot of butterflys.

Today my best friend since jr. high school will be visiting.
Then tomorrow is our last full day.
We head home Tuesday morning.

 

[irky416]

Looks like you guys are having fun! I wish I was there!

I agree with Hannah about butterfly houses being a little scary!

The underwater pictures are cute!

 

[jmskinner]

How is the temp of the ocean water?

 

[MeMom]

I hope we are going to be blessed with Lion Country and Butterfly World pictures!!!

Glad you guys have had/are having a good time. Family time is so important.

Sure can't blame Jacob for wanting to hang out right there. Beautiful view! The picture with the boats is frame worthy.

 

[Happy Elf]

Beautiful pictures! I like the underwater pictures...I want to try that sometime. The beach looks so relaxing.

 

[DisneyTiger]

Hey Kathleen,

I'm finally caught up. LOVE all the pics. I also loved watching Jacob get everything just right in your window. Too funny. I wish I was at the beach now. What a treat to have family members live right on the beach can't wait to hear more

 

[Lovemy3babes]

It looks like you are having a blast!! Enjoy it.

 

[kathleen27]

Looks like you guys are having fun! I wish I was there!

I agree with Hannah about butterfly houses being a little scary!

The underwater pictures are cute!

I don't think you would like butterfly world then.
Sometimes the butterflys land on people.
They have bird aviarys too.
They had lots of fun taking those underwater pictures. We need to get Hannah's camera developed today.

How is the temp of the ocean water?

I have been in the pool, but have not been past my ankles in the ocean. Too cold for me! The kids have been in several times, but not more than an hour at a time, then they head back to the pool and say how much warmer the pool is. So definately still a bit cold.

I hope we are going to be blessed with Lion Country and Butterfly World pictures!!!

Glad you guys have had/are having a good time. Family time is so important.

Sure can't blame Jacob for wanting to hang out right there. Beautiful view! The picture with the boats is frame worthy.

I will post a few of those pictures.
I've taken 900+ photos so far.
And that does not include Jacob's photos.
A lot are duplicates and some are blurry. Butterflys do not stay still.

The kids have all said they want to visit at the same time again.
They had a lot of fun together.

Beautiful pictures! I like the underwater pictures...I want to try that sometime. The beach looks so relaxing.

Thanks!
I'm glad we got the underwater cameras. I wasn't sure how they would come out, but they look good! And they had so much fun taking them.

Hey Kathleen,

I'm finally caught up. LOVE all the pics. I also loved watching Jacob get everything just right in your window. Too funny. I wish I was at the beach now. What a treat to have family members live right on the beach can't wait to hear more

Thanks!
He loved putting that window together!
It is so nice having family at the beach!
I wish we could visit more often!

It looks like you are having a blast!! Enjoy it.

This has been a great vacation!




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Time for a reality check though. Have to check in online and print out our boarding passes. That means only 24 hours left.

After that we are going to the store, then a walk down the street, with the return walk on the beach.