Chapter 15. This is the life.
What gets better at disney than going in the parks...How about a nice relaxing day of waking up whenever you want, chilling at the water parks and then having a nice monorail ride to dinner at one of your favorite places.
Sounds like a day i want to have, sign me up.
So we didnt set the alarm this morning and slept in till the ripe time of 7:10am.
yep that is sleeping in for our family...noelle usually gets us all up in the 6 oclock hour so we were doing good.
When candi asked if we wanted to get dressed we decided to pajama it to the breakfast that morning.
So out the door and a view of what we had from our room door as I dont remember if i shared it or not yet.
to the right.
straight ahead.
to the left.
Since we were on the free dinning plan, we had 2 Counter service meals a day...that took care of all the lunches and dinners.
well i scheduled a few dinners this trip OOP so that shifted a few of those dinner CS meals toward breakfast...everyone follow good lets get on with it.
This was one of those shift CS breakfast meals we were excited to try some AoA breakfast foods this trip.
here is the menu from the far right station which the rest of the day housed the burger menu.
I went with the chicken burger, i liked it so much i actually ended up getting it another morning as well. it was awesome the chicken burger was moist and delicious, the egg with the sauce had a great spice to it. and the pepper jack cheese added just the right amount of heat as well. Another morning candi had the breakfast platter which she enjoyed.
the creation station.
candi headed over to the french toast/inter-nation stand and opted for the french toast..she really liked this as did parker they both ordered it later in the week as well.
when my order came out there were fries with my burger, now i love me some fries, but for breakfast i figured i should not get them so i told her to sub them the breakfast casserole when i ordered...
i told the lady that and she said ohh they through fries on with all burgers...not a problem ill get you a side of the casserole, just tell the lady at check out it was our bad.
all set we headed to check out.
i think i might try and make a version of that sandwich sometime at home i liked it that much.
just like at home eating breakfast in our PJ's, except after breakfast at home you dont get to trade pins and vinylmations.
and even though it was frowned upon by candi, i still ate most of the fries...what they were just going to go to waste why not have fries for breakfast on vacation.
i hope they screw up my order the next breakfast.
while candi and noelle finished up, me and parker headed into the gift shop to trade vinylmations and pins. then met back up with the ladies to head to the room.
changed for the water parkers and ready to go we headed out.
when we got to the bus we walked right onto a arriving bus, and left right away. we were the first stop before AK, so we arrived pretty quickly. once there we waited less than 10 minutes to get into the park, got our locker and waited at the chains to be let in...
well 10:00 came and went, with people still waiting. we heard over the lifeguard radio that the rest of the guards were not in position at there locations and had to wait....come on you know you open at 10:00 get to your spot. finally at 10:10 the park was opened by the first slider of the day going down summit plummit.
I headed up the ski lift quickly to get my ride on, and down before to many people get in line...i was the 3rd person on the ride, clocked 56 on the mph radar, pulled out the wedgie factory that was going on, and met up with the family...
we headed back up the mountain to ride teamboat springs as a family or the family tube slide for those of you that are unfamiliar with the naming there.
we were set down, and noelle was nestled in my side ready to ride, the lady running the ride said she is free to go down as long as she can hold onto the strap by her legs....okay no problem, i wrap her hand around the strap and that set her crying radar off like no other, she didnt want to hold on for anything.
so candi grabbed her and said you go with parker we will meet you at the bottom.
parker loved the ride.
we headed toward the pikes peak kid play area for a while and the kids loved it.
parker loved the freedom this trip to run to the top and come down the slides all on his own.
noelle really liked this area.
while waiting for parker to come down the slide, i spotted a cutie in the shallow water playing around.
kid body slides.
kid tube slides
then a little race down the tripple slides.
i have to teach parker about the whole water turns dark blue when you pee in it.
then it was time to play in the water fall.
noelle talked mommy into dunking herself all the way under.
then me and parker headed over to the bigger kids play area, which was alot of fun and we had a blast going on hte bigger tube slides there playing on the iceburgs with the rope neat above them, etc.
then it was time for candi and parker to head up to the ski lift, and down the family slide together, me and noelle hit the wave pool for a few waves, and saw a few interesting sights of the brazillians in there bikinis...then left and road the lazy river around toward where candi and parker would be coming down the slide at.
noelle sat in the little kid middle filled tube, meaning the tube had a solid middle to it, for little kids to sit in...she loved it she sat indian style, and i walked nest to her while she nestled back into my chest and shoulder and just enjoyed the ride.
it was a perfect moment with my little girl just being quite,
since she cant talk much yet...and enjoying the peace of the lazy river (since it was still not busy)
waiting at the bottom of the slide for parker and candi, we see them coming down with everyone in the tube looking backwards at something.
well turns out his sun hat fell off at the start so they watched to see his hat chasing them down the whole way and to make sure it made it.
sure enough it did, it floated in the current right back to them at the bottom.
we all hopped back in the lazy river and floated around towards the lockers to eat lunch.
i was ready for my chili dog, parker had the hot dog, and candi shared the nuggets with noelle...who also took some of our sides and parkers sides.
continued in the next update.
I guess from the back, they could look alike...blond hair and chunky toddler legs!!
thanks for reading along, and thanks for the link to the vinylmation...do you collect them?
