The Jacobs Do Disney...day five

Thursday morning, we woke up early and had breakfast at Chef Mickey's in the Contemporary Resort.

Again, Grace was loving shoving her food in her mouth so she could meet all the characters.

Carter, on the other hand, did not want to be interrupted from his cinnamon rolls, french toast, pancakes, and waffles to meet anyone.

Carter had finally reached his sugar intake and decided that he could hang out with Pluto for a sec.

After breakfast, we took the monorail to Epcot.

The monorail may or may not have been the most exciting part of the day for some people.

We paused for this pic before yet another walk/run to Soarin' which was super cool!

The Seas with Nemo and Friends was our next stop.

We did Turtle Talk with Crush...fun and Journey Into Imagination with Figment before visiting the World Showcase.  We didn't get to visit all the countries because Grace would not get off the phone in the United Kingdom.  Ugh!

But once she did, she got to meet Alice in the Tea Caddy Gardens.

In France, we met Belle!

We visited Morocco and Carter jammed out with this Moroccan guitar.

The kids rubbed a lot of lamps looking for a genie!  But, we never found one...too bad!

We did find both Aladdin and Jasmine!

For dinner, we headed to Italy.

We ate at Via Napoli and it was so super yummy!

After dinner, Grace and I traveled to a few more countries...like Germany.

The boys went for an after dinner drive on Test Track...can you see the top of Carter's head?

The girls also visited Norway, the home of Anna & Elsa, and rode Maelstrom.

After our trip to China, we met up with the boys and closed down the park at IllumiNations.

The Jacobs Do Disney...day four

For our next adventure, we set out to Animal Kingdom.

We did another walk/run trying to keep up with John and Carter as they led us to the Kilimanjaro Safaris.

We were able to walk right on the truck for our tour of the "African savanna."

We got up close and personal with some pretty cool animals!

After the safari, Grace and Grandma put on a little concert.

DinoLand U.S.A. was our next stop.

Grace and Carter got to ride TricerTop Spin four times in a row.

And, I'm pretty sure they would have rode it all day long if we would have let them.

But, we had to go meet these silly dogs!

Carter LOVED Pluto!

Grace was mesmerized by Goofy!

Just around the river bend, we met Pocahontas.

She told Carter lots of secrets about the animals there.

Next, we headed to Asia for a little expedition.

Somehow, we ended up riding Expedition Everest on three separate rides.  John and Grandpa rode first and they kinda loved it!!!

John was going to tell me that Grace didn't need to ride it, but we were already on.

Guess what?  She LOVED it so much that she rode it a second time with Grandma!!!  She's a brave girl!

Then, it was time for It's Tough to be a Bug!

After lunch and another rain storm, we had to say good-bye to Grandpa and Grandma.  Boo.  We ended our day in the park at Finding Nemo: The Musical!

We left the park early so we could spend some time in the pool and then we had a pizza picnic.

We went to bed early because we had an early morning breakfast date!

The Jacobs Do Disney...day three

On our third day, we visited Hall-lee-wood!!!

Daisy Duck was waiting for us as soon as we got to the park...she's pretty sassy!

We ran/walked to Toy Story Mania and thankfully, we didn't have to wait too terribly long!

Fun ride.  Everyone loved it!

After that, we met Princess Sofia.

  Jake was a nice pirate...I think Grace may have a little crush on him!

Then, we got to hang out with Minnie in her fabulous dressing room.

She's so fancy!!!

After watching The Voyage of the Little Mermaid, it was time to liven things up a bit with Aerosmith's Rock 'n' Roller Coaster.  John and I just giggled for the entire ride.

"Where should we go next?"

Beauty and the Beast calmed us down after that wild ride.

It was finally time to ride my most favorite ride!!!

Carter was so upset that he didn't get to ride the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster and I felt bad about not letting him ride this too. (I should have just felt bad!)  I explained everything that was going to happen and that it was scary and it feels like you are falling and everything.  He was convinced that he wanted to do it, so...

He did not like it.  Not even a little bit.  I felt HORRIBLE!  When we got off, we were led into a gift shop where I spent around $8 on suckers for him.  He was happy after that!  We then went to Disney Junior Live...more his speed.  All was right in the world again!

We had lunch and naps at our hotel and then went back to Hollywood Studios and watched Muppet*Vision 3D.  It was great!  While we were at the show, it started pouring.  We swam to Pizza Planet for dinner.

We were planning on going to Fantasmic after dinner, but the rain had other plans.  So...Toy Story Mania AGAIN! 

A fun and scary and magical and wet day!