Friday, January 2, 2015

Animal Kingdom

We only spent one day at Animal Kingdom, but we crammed lots of fun stuff into our rainy day there.  First stop, Tusker House character breakfast!

We met Safari Donald & Mickey and all their pals!

We even danced in a Conga line with Daisy!

The safari ride was amazing!


During the downpour, we took refuge in many shows throughout the day.  The Lion King spectacular!

Magic Kingdom Revisited

Did I mention that Davis loved "It's a Small World"?  Since we were there celebrating his birthday, we decided to humor him & ride it again and again and again.  


These boys came home exhausted each night.

Our view at Pop Century. 
Not everyone was excited to pose in front of Cinderella's castle. 
Davis & I waited in line for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for about 45 minutes on our last day there.  We had already ridden it once via FastPass, but he insisted on riding it again.  We discovered lots of fun stops in the queue for the ride that we missed out on when we walked right on earlier in the week.  This was a musical water stop that provided tons of entertainment. 
They've got the whole World in their hands...

Visiting Buzz in Toy Story ride #2.

We LOVED the Pooh ride!

Last day in Orlando!  We'll miss you, Mickey!

Walt Disney World-Hollywood Studios

*New Year, new resolution to try & keep the blog updated...time to finish posting about our Disney trip in November! ;-) 

We had lots of favorites at Hollywood Studios...Star Tours & all things Star Wars, Disney Junior characters, stunt shows and Toy Story, to name just a few!  We spent eight days in the parks, so these are all a jumble of our time spent in Hollywood Studios.  The first five days we had Grandad & Grandma Nancy with us (SO much fun!) and the last three days were just the Beilmans.  Definitely a trip to remember...can't wait to go back!
Got Ears?

Muppets 3D show was a throw back to fond childhood memories of watching the Muppet Show when I was little.

Lightening & Mater took some time off from Radiator Springs to visit Florida!

The sets were so realistic!

Lightening made a guest appearance in the stunt show--it was awesome!

Fancy dinner at the Brown Derby restaurant.  Gotta love the Disney Dining Plan!

Toy Story Mania
Get 'em, Grandad!

The Osborne Family light show was just beautiful.  They even had snow falling in Orlando--magical!

Getting into the holiday spirit!


Star Tours fun.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids play area.  We could have spent all day in there!

One of our favorite things was meeting Baymax & Hiro from Big Hero 6!
We mistakenly thought that everyone would know these two characters, but after receiving several confused texts/comments after mailing out our Christmas card, we realized we should have clarified that we did not adopt a large Asian boy.  Oops!

Davis was SO excited for our Disney Junior lunch dates.  He was peeking through the window trying to spy the characters while we waited for our table.  Too cute!
Doc McStuffins
Handy Manny 
The boys did their best pirate faces for Jake! 

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Magic Kingdom

It truly is Magical.  We met Granddad & Grandma Nancy in Orlando for eight days of Mickey to celebrate Davis's fifth birthday.  And, celebrate we did!  We got up early each morning & went strong all day until we couldn't go any more.  It. Was. Awesome.  Exhausting, but awesome. :-) Staying on Disney property was definitely the way to go & took the hassle out of transportation.  Getting the free dining plan didn't hurt, either! 

Davis LOVED riding "It's a Small World".  I mean, how cute is this?
We all wore our matching Mickey shirts on the first day...and this is the only picture I have of them.

We went to Chef Mickey's for a special character breakfast to celebrate Davis's birthday.  He got a signed card from Mickey & friends.

We got to meet all the faves...
MICKEY!!!

Back off, Minnie!

Davis told Donald that he loved him as much as Mickey.

Cute Pluto!

We ended up being there on Mickey's real birthday! How cool!

Back for another ride on Small World.  Anything for the birthday boy!
It was chilly in Orlando this day.  We really weren't expecting that!
Beautiful!

The carousel was fun & had great views of the castle.
Davis refused to be in our family pic.  Let's just say it had been a long day & we headed back to the hotel after this. 
Loved all of the Christmas decorations.  Disney goes all-out to make everything so festive.