Disney World Trip!

Walt Disney World - Here we come!  On Oct. 15 we set off for Disney World!  Sibley and Wyatt have been looking forward to this trip and they had a blast!!!  We were there from Oct. 15-20 and we went with my parents (Nonni and Nonno), Robert, Cheryl, Sophia, Renato, Mary and Renato IV.  Everyone had a great time and Wyatt has already been saying he wants to go back to the park right now.  When he says "the park" he's referring to Disney World to see the characters.  We met lots and lots of characters, Sibley and Sophia were transformed into beautiful princesses, we rode lots of rides and saw magical shows like Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Disney Live with all the favorite characters!  This was a great time of year to go (while big kids were still in school) so we were able to see and hug many characters, multiple times!  Thanks again Nonni and Nonno for a GREAT trip!!!

 

 

 

On the airplane going to Orlando!

On the bus going to Port Orleans Riverside (our resort where we stayed)

After we arrived on Monday afternoon we went straight to Epcot to have dinner with the Princesses!

 

Sibley and Sophia meet for the first time on the trip!

While we were on our way to the restaurant in the park we came across Donald Duck dresses for a fiesta!  This was our first of many character sightings and the kids were really excited!

Right before you enter the "Ballroom" where you eat everyone got to get their picture made with Bell from Beauty and the Beast!

While we ate all the princesses came around to the tables to meet us.  Here is Ariel from the Little Mermaid.  I think Wyatt was starstruck!

Cinderella

Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Snow White

They had all the kids get in line to parade through the restaurant with the princesses and here is Sibley returning, excited as ever!

Sibley and Sophia had appointments at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Downtown Disney on Tuesday.  They got their hair, make-up and nails done, along with receiving a princess sash and a beautiful Minnie Mouse hair clip with pink diamonds for a finishing touch.  Oh and don't forget lots of pixie dust!!!  Here they waiting to be transformed by their fairy godmother!

Princess in the making!

Here is Princess Sibley dressed as Cinderella!

Princess Sibley and Princess Sophia

Signing the Royal Guest Book

After the girls' appointments we headed off to the Magic Kingdom!  Here we are in front of the princess' castle!

We came upon a parade when we first got there.  Here is Woody and Jessy from Toy Story dancing away!

Wyatt and Nonno riding "It's a Small World"

Wyatt on the carousel

This was a kids roller coaster that Sibley and Justin rode called Goofy's Barnstormer.  If you look really closely you can see right under the bar that's above the propeller you can see Sibley's princess hair barely sticking up.  They got front row seats on the roller coaster!  Sibley said she had lots of fun!

Watching a performance on the streets of the Magic Kingdom.

Metting Mickey Mouse for the first time!  I think they got to "meet" him a total of 3 times.

Sophia, Wyatt, Sibley and Mickey

Meeting Cinderella

Princess Aurora and Cinderella

All 3 princesses giving a curtsey.

Rapunzel!

Here we are at the Animal Kingdom on Wednesday!  Sibley and Wyatt are playing the bongo drums!

Wyatt, Sibley and Sophia with Safari Donald Duck!

Safari Mickey signing Sibley's autograph book.  All the characters signed their books as a keepsake.

The person sitting at the table next to us got captured this picture of Sibley grabbing Mickey's behind. :)

Safari Goofy!

Safari Daisy Duck!

Hippos on the African Safari ride!

Sibley meeting Baloo and King Louie!  Wyatt was a little scared of these characters.  He's never seen Jungle Book before so he was pretty nervous about these guys.

He took the picture with them as long as I was with him.

Pocahontus

Safari Minnie Mouse

Eeyore

Winnie the Pooh

Tigger

Going down the slide in DinoLand!  There was this huge playground there and they would have stayed and played all day if we would have let them.

About to go up high in the sky on the triceratops ride!

Tinkerbell!  They were so excited about meeting Tinkerbell!  Two days before when we were at the Magic Kingdom they wanted to meet her but the line was 45 min. long and there was not a fast pass available so we skipped it.  Wyatt was so upset that he didn't get to meet her so that night while he was sleeping, I guess he was dreaming about it because he was whining in his sleep "I want to see Tinkerbell!"  So on our second day at the Magic Kingdom we got there as early as we could and went straight to Tinkerbell.  The line time was still at 40 minutes but they wanted to wait.  It ended up be about 35 minutes but it wasn't so bad because they had a Tinkerbell show playing to keep them occupied.

I didn't know Tinkerbell has a sister but apparently she does and this is her, Periwinkle!

Peter Pan!

Goofy, Donald Duck and Captain Hook, all performing at an afternoon show in front of the princesses castle.

Nonno, Sibley and Wyatt waiting on our table at the Crystal Palace.  We had character reservations to meet Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet.

Winnie the Pooh cought Justin a little off gaurd!

Piglet

Eeyore came up from behind to Renato and Justin, didn't catch their reaction fast enough with the camera before Eeyore got sidetracked with Sibley and Wyatt!

Wyatt and Daddy giving each other "knucks" (knuckles) while on the People Mover in Tomorrow Land.

Wyatt "digging for gold"

Sibley and Mommy on the People Mover.

Wyatt and Justin about to ride the race cars!  Wyatt was SO excited about getting to drive!

The top of Wyatt's head and Justin

Off they go!!!  Vroom!

An afternoon parade - "A Dream Come True" - we saw a lot of the characters in this parade!

Chip (or Dale?)

Mickey and Minnie!

Aladdin

Mary Poppins!

Alice in Wonderland

A stepsister and the stepmother from Cinderella

Cinderella and her prince

The Fairy Godmother

The Beast and Belle from Beauty and the Beast

Ariel and her prince, Eric

Wyatt and Merida from the newest Disney movie, Brave.

We waited and waited to see Merida and I think Sibley was coming down with a fever and she fell asleep so Merida came over to Sibley to take a picture with her and signed her book so she wouldn't miss out!

After you meet Merida you can go shoot her bow and arrow!  Wyatt was so excited about doing this and even got a bullseye!  Maybe he will be into archery like his daddy!

Sibley just woke up right before it was time to meet Buzz Lightyear (from Toy Story) so she was a little out of it.

Sibley, Buzz and Wyatt

Ariel from The Little Mermaid

Here we are on our last day at Disney World.  We went to Hollywood Studios!  They had fun here and it was a great park to go to on the last day because there were many more shows than rides so everyone could sit, watch the shows and rest because they were all starting to get very tired by this day.  So here is Wyatt and Sophia fighting over the stroller.  :)

Sibley, Wyatt and Sophia (hiding behind Wyatt) in front of Fantasia Mickey's magical hat!

Fantasia Mickey!

Wyatt, Sibley and Sophia diligently coloring away!

Sophia and Sibley (striking a pose) after the Beauty and the Beast show.

Sophia, Renato IV, Nonno, Wyatt and Nonni all waiting for our next character lunch at Hollywood Studios!

June from Little Einsteins

Handy Manny

Special Agent Oso

Wyatt gettin' down with Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates!  Wyatt was hilarious and got really into his dance moves!

Still dancing with Jake, he didn't want to leave his side!

After the dance!

Jake

This was in a Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground so Wyatt is riding an ant.

Sibley coming down with a fever again so she didn't want to play.  Decided to hang out on some "dirt" with Uncle Robert.

Wyatt apparently wanted to ride this tractor but this was just a display.

A Green Army Man from Toy Story!