Yeah, I think I will practice the art of "no" more after this week is over! 1 more full school day, then the closing ceremony, then we are freeeeee!!!!
thepoor lion!! He can't even relieve himself without an audience!
that is one of the best safari pics ever!
I'm sure Jordan will appreciate a good poop photo.
you have forever changed that song for me now.....
That's what I was thinking too.I don't know about anyone else but when we were there and I saw that Cheetah so close I was a little nervous...they must have some hidden fence or something right?...cause all I was thinking was this jeep is open and I hope he isn't wanting a human snack.
Although I'm sure a Cheetah could jump right over that so I have no idea. 
If we eat here again, it will be only myself and DH for date night if/when family comes with us on a future trip. That way we don't have to stress about DS accidentally eating something he shouldn't. Here are a few pic's from this meal. I wish I could remember what all of the food was but I can't. I just remember it was VERY good.
Then he held the chocolate syrup up really high and poured it all over the entire thing right in front of DS. He thought that was SO COOL. Seriously, this guy was the best!!
After about 20 minutes he comes strolling out. Luckily he was on the train right after the one stuck at the top. He said they took off, went about 3 feet, then the train just stopped. Thank goodness he got off because that other train didn't get the people off for over an hour (or more)! We rode Dinosaur next but when we crossed the bridge out of Dinoland and looked across the lake, the train was still up there with people on it.
He had it all figured out, right? Anyway, once the ride started, I realized quickly that there was something I forgot to tell him about.....how extremely loud it is! He immediately tried to plug his ears but didn't want to let go of DH's arm. So basically I tried to help him hold his ears through the entire ride while he held on to DH for dear life. He wasn't freaking out, just very wide-eyed and taking it all in. Here is our ride picture.......
He says he plans on doing it again on our upcoming trip in June. We shall see!!
That's the dino he got from the gift shop....
I introduce to you, my husband. Man of all men, with his turkey leg and beer. He just looks so barbaric.
Allow me to narrarate the above photo......"MMMM, ME MAN!! ME EAT BIG LEG OF MEAT!!! ME DRINK BIG OL' BEER!!!"
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cret of mine about being a Saints fan all my life. At some point of my adult life, I realized I needed some sort of "outlet" for the stress of watching this team play. That's when I re-discovered Twizzlers. When I watch the Saints I usually have the regular "football snacks" around....chips, dips, etc. but I also have to have a HUGE bag of Twizzlers to knaw on during the stressful times. Otherwise I find myself grinding my teeth and end up with a huge headache.
For this game......WE NEEDED THAT 1 POUND BAG OF TWIZZLERS!!! By the time the game was over, the bag was about 4 twizzlers shy of empty. There were so many ups and downs with emotions during the entire game. It was so nerve wracking but so surreal all at the same time. Our beloved Saints are in the Superbowl!! I really don't have pictures from this time. I had my laptop set up on the dining table where I could see the game, and type to friends on Facebook back home. I think I did an update on my PTR during that time that said.....
"Someone tell me what is better than watching your favorite team in the Superbowl while also watching the fireworks from EPCOT off your balcony????
THIS NIGHT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!! "
I also exchanged a few texts with Jordan who was watching with Winkers & DJay in Derek & Wendy's room at BLT. He was super happy for us too! They all told us Congrats when we saw them later.
All in all....DH and I had a blast. We did get loud quite a few times. We jumped up and high fived and I'm not sure but I think one time we may have belly bumped in the air. I know there was the last touch down when we jumped up and started screaming and he picked me up and threw me in the air.
All of this and a few tears, and no we did not get kicked out of our hotel. I did like watching while at Disney but at the same time you do miss the folks back home. Thanks to whoever invented Facebook. It was refreshing so fast it almost looked like a chat room. There were reports from all over that there were fireworks going off in the streets....even inside the city limits which is a huge "no-no". I do believe that someone even wrote that they saw POLICE doing it too.
"Drew Brees, you and the New Orleans Saints are celebrating your first superbowl victory! What are you going to do next???"
"I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!"
And so he DID!!!
Up next, EMH at MK and an early Monday morning on a freezing cold bench for 2 hours to catch a VERY SPECIAL parade!!!
Here are a few pictures from the Super bowl & celebrations....
This is some of the excitement we came home to almost a week later.....
In my last update, we were heading out of our hotel to go to MK for EMH. I had been texting Jordan during the game, and I knew they (jordan, winkers, djay, and rosie) were on their way to MK from BLT. When we arrived on Main Street. I got a call from Rosie! They would meet us by Casey's. Off we went!! When we met up with them we got a lot of "CONGRAT'S" from all of them. We were still on a major "high" from the game. It felt AWESOME to go from that to the MK. At one point I looked over and saw something very strange!! It was super cold AGAIN that night but nothing a jacket couldn't take care of. This is what I saw strolling down Main Street at around 11pm....
Yes, 2 women in their Snuggies!! You never know what you will see at Disney.
Pic of castle at night...
The group had decided that they would let DS pick what we would ride. DH and I thought that was super sweet of them! 1st up.....what else....Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin!! Off we go....
Everyone doubled up and DS rode with DH so that left me being a loner. That happened a lot on this trip. When we first started going to WDW DS loved to ride with me. Now that he's getting older, I'm chopped liver when it comes to rides, I guess. He now chooses to ride with daddy. It's a boys thing I suppose.
After Buzz, it was time for the "blue ride"...AKA...the Tomorrowland Transportation Authority....or I like to call it.... The People Mover. What can I say, old habits die hard.
After this, DS wanted to ride the Indy cars. Jordan and Winkers were talking about doing Space Mountain. DH said he'd go with DS to do the Indy cars and for me to do SM w/jordan and winkers. DJay stayed with Rosie since apparently she is deathly affraid of roller coasters. I did not know that until that very moment! She had a bad experience on the BARN STORMER!!!
All of the rides this night were walk on. I think we waited maybe 5 minutes to get on SM. During that time Jordan, Winkers and I had a conversation about a rumor that I've heard for years about someone's head getting chopped off on that ride. Jordan said it was TRUE!!! Winkers and I looked at each other like thisWhen it came time to get on the ride, we let Jordan sit in the front.
I don't know what he was doing but at some point Jordan decided to face the camera's and stand straight up with this one expression. As he rode past himself, all of the monitors started to fill up with just him. I guess you had to be there but it was hilarious. The people around us thought we were a little weird but who cares! We're in Disney World!!!
After all of this we started heading back toward the hub because we were all going to ride Pirates of the Caribbean.
I spotted a photopass person with nothing to do!!
OMG, look at DH!! Jordan has converted him too!!
About to get on Pirates! DS was excited but nervous as usual. He really does love this ride.
After pirates it was about 12:30am. EMH lasted until 1am. The gang was going to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad but DS has not mastered that one yet. It was okay though because he was asking to ride Peter Pan. We thought it'd be a good idea to run over there really quick to see if we could get on before 1. The past few trips we have not been able to ride it due to extremely long wait times....even with fast pass. We made it over there at about 12:37am. It was walk on, of course! Love those EMH in the winter!!
After we got off of PP, we still had a few more minutes and so we decided to hit Dumbo since that usually has a long line during the day too. We walked right on Dumbo!! Actually if we had been there about 1 minute earlier, DS would have gotten to ride with a character! Donald was riding with a little girl and goofy was on with a boy. I think chip and dale came out right after we took off and was signing autographs by the carousel. We have been to EMH at MK many times before and I can tell you that we NEVER saw any of that at that time of the night. It was pretty cool.
DH and DS to the right, and Donald to the left...
After Dumbo there was 10 minutes until closing so we jumped on Winnie the Pooh and made that our last ride of the night. So if you look back, you will see that we were able to walk on MANY rides in just 2 hours. And THAT is why I love going in February! Although, I don't think that will happen anymore...unless it's for mardi gras holiday. DS is starting 1st grade next year. They start frowning upon pulling them out of school after kindergarten.
The castle on our way out.....
Being as though we got there at 11pm, we were able to snag a FRONT ROW parking spot. We hopped the monorail back and walked to our spot. Then headed back for sweet dreams of starting all over again the next day.
UP NEXT DAY 3!!!
At one point a group of people showed up across from us with a big Saints banner. I was trying to get DH to take a picture of me with them in the background. I had no idea that a crazy Japanese man was sneeking up behind me! I turned around and discovered him when DH and everyone around him started laughing.
I think I was asking why everyone was laughing at me!
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When I left off we were headed over to Animal Kingdom!! We actually went to this park a few times this trip and since my pictures are all mixed up now, I will ATTEMPT to figure out what we did this day.
I believe we started off by heading straight for DINOSAUR!! DS said he wanted to brave Dinosaur this trip. DH and I figured he would back out of that statement once we were at WDW but he didn't. On the way to AK he said that today was his day to ride it for the first time. So off we went!! The line was sort of long but we decided to do stand by. I'm not sure why other than the fact that we thought that if we get in line then maybe DS wouldn't back out. Here are a few pics from our wait in line.....
Nervous but eager!!
After a while we decided to skip the stand by line and get a fastpass for later. The line just wasn't moving AT ALL. So, away we went.....grabbed a fast pass then headed over to Expedition Everest so DH and I could do the single rider line. The ride itself was great except for the part I mentioned previously to Dan about getting run over by some brazilians on the way off the ride.
After this we played around in Dinoland, then it was time for Dinosaur!! We get there and.......it's broken.They told us that if it's still broken by closing time that they would accept our fastpasses tomorrow. Ok, cool!! It was around 2 or 3 by this time. We decided to head over to ride the Safari ride. Surprisingly, there were a few animals out that I got pictures of that I've never gotten before. Such as the ostrich(sp?)......
And the Cheetah.....
And THE LION WAS OUT!!!! The guide got everyone so excited and our cameras were out and ready when we rounded the corner and, well......I took this picture especially for Jordan!!!
After we left the Safari, it was almost time for the parade. We've never seen the Jammin' Jungle parade before. We keep hearing that it is top notch but we weren't sure if we wanted to endure ANOTHER parade and on the same day no less. Well, as we are walking along, we cross a bridge and there is rope with a small space on the other side. I asked the CM if we could watch from there and she said yes. It seemed like a good spot where people couldn't really crowd you too much so we snagged it and sat right against the rope. I will tell you......THIS WAS THE BEST PARADE EVER!!!! We loved it and only had kind people with small kids on either side of us. It was heaven. Here are pic's from that parade. I will post some video at the end of this update too!
Parade video:
Here are some photopass pictures that we took on this day. The first photographer we had wasn't that great. He wouldn't wait for the other people to leave before taking our picture so we have them in our pics. However, the 2nd one we ran into later in the day was awesome!
After the parade, it was park closing time.....or so we thought. We followed the parade out and left the park. By using the new Disney Mobile Magic on our cell phones, we could see that Dinosaur was still not working. We thought we could use the fastpasses the next day like we were told. WRONG!!! What I didn't realize was that they had added evening magic hours to AK that day and they ended up getting Dinosaur up and running before close. So our fastpasses the next day were no good.....according to a very stern older CM lady they next morning. So we started all over again the next day.
Up next......dinner at O'hana!! O'hana means "Family".
everyone poops
