A Life Makeover: November 2011

Florida trip, Sunday 11/13/11

Our last day in Florida was started off with a breakfast with the characters. It was awesome. We didn't tell the little guy where we were going but as we drove through the same way we went to get to the Magic Kingdom he said, "I go see Mickey Mouse again???" I scheduled this breakfast to ensure that he was able to meet Mickey in person and give him a hug. The food was so good and there was so much of it! The little guy ate none of it because he was too excited.

Mickey waffles of course

He's just a little excited

Here comes goofy!

This was the view out the window we were sitting by. We could see the castle which added an extra excitement for the little guy.

Hey goofy!

Hugs!

Heaven forbid he put his apple down when meeting the characters haha

There he is!

big hugs for mickey!

my fav pic

I had to jump in on at least one picture

Every half hour or so everyone would stop and wave their napkins in their air (including the characters) and sing a celebrate song. It was fun!

A nice man at the table next to us offer to take our picture with pluto. I wish he would have offered earlier with mickey!

After we left the character breakfast we went back to the timeshare. We had to check out at noon and my parents' plane left at 1:50 and our didn't leave until 7:55 so we had time to kill. We drove around for a little bit because the little guy fell asleep and he needed a nap. After that we went to Old Town. It's a place near the timeshare that has stores and rides and stuff to kill time. It was somewhat boring there because we just wanted to get home but we filled the time.

We hit up the arcade

And some rides that the little guy went on all by himself and loved it!

And thus concludes our trip! The little guy played the nook for half the flight home and slept the rest of it. We got home just before midnight and crashed. I feel like I'm still recovering from the trip but it's was worth it

Florida trip, saturday 11/12/11

The next stop on our trip was my favorite place, Sea World! The little guy liked some of the shows, especially Pets Ahoy! and the Shamu show. i found it more difficult for him to enjoy himself at Sea World because there was a lot of time waiting for the shows to start. Thankfully my dad bought him this little otter figurine that kept him quite entertained! My parents took us out for lunch at this cool restaurant where you basically eat next to the shark tank. The food was delicious too! It was nice to have a good meal after feeling like all we ate were hamburgers and french fries the whole trip!

When we walked the first character we shaw was Shamu in front of the Christmas tree. He was a silly Shamu that was a dancing fool

I thought the little guy would love the dolphin show because he kept saying he wanted to see them. He did like it but it was at the beginning of our time there and I think he was trying to figure out what Sea World was all about. After we saw the show we went to pet the dolphins but he was too busy singing to pet them.

Petting some sting rays

when Eric sees this picture he says, "SNAP!"

Big Eric insisted on going on a roller coaster at Sea World. This one you lie down and go on it.

We were walking around waiting for daddy to be done with the roller coaster when we happened to run into a dolphin! Eric ran right up to it and gave it a hug

He looks like such a big kid in this picture

The shamu show (these whales are hard to get a picture of!)

We wanted to get a picture in front of this at the beginning of the day but we didn't make it back until it was dark

I kept trying to get a video of the little guy at the Shamu show because he kept squeeling with delight but of course he wouldn't do it when I had the camera on him.

Florida trip-Friday, 11/11/11

On Friday we went to the Magic Kingdom. The little guy was looking forward to seeing Mickey so much that we wanted to make sure we got there the first day. This was the first time I've been to the Magic Kingdom when it was decorated for Christmas. It was so pretty despite the fact that it felt a little early to be preparing for Christmas! When we left in the morning it was only in the 40s and only got up to the mid 60s that day but there wasn't a cloud in the sky. The little guy loved the Magic Kingdom. It took a little bit of time for him to warm up to the place but once he figured out what it was all about he couldn't get enough. He loved the show they had in front of the castle with all the characters and there were fireworks at the end of the show to make it even better. They also had a dance party in the street that he loved. I think his favorite ride was the Buzz Lightyear ride where you sit in a car and spin it around and shoot a lazer at the bad robot. He still talks about it. He did fall asleep on the Tom Sawyer steamboat ride but he just took a quick catnap and was ready to enjoy the rest of the day. My favorite part was when they lit up the castle at the end of the night. I took a great video of it but blogger says it is too big to upload to the blog :(. I will try to post it on FB instead.
Here's Main St. all decorated

Family love in front of the castle

Trying to get that sword out of the stone

There's mem and pep watching us as we go on the carousel

hold on tight tight!

Eric and daddy waiting in what ended up being a very long ride to get on to the Dumbo ride that lasted all of a half a minute

There's the back of them!

My mom's favorite ride is "It's a Small World" so of course we had to go on it

My mom and I were on the race car in front of the Eric's The little guy was so little that I couldn't even see his head over the steering wheel! Someone needs to take his license away!