Day 5-Animal Kingdom

Here we are, ready for another day at Disney!  This was Ryan's last day with us-he had to go back to work and I was very sad about that!

 

The Tree of Life is behind Cooper.

 Jackson wasn't quite feeling the pictures at that moment :).

 We got to the park a little before Laura's family so we went to the "It's Tough to Be a Bug" show.  It was fun but a little scary, Jackson ended up sitting on me the entire show.

 We then met up with everyone else and went to dinoland.  Jackson was just not feeling the rides that morning so we took the older boys on the rides.

 Then we went with the big kids on the Dinosaur ride.  It was pretty fun and Cooper wasn't very scared!  This was the first time we'd been on it.

 We then went to the dino playground. 

 Then we hurried to lunch.  Didn't love the lunch but we were able to see some characters!

 Jackson's favorite!  He looked for Mickey wherever we went!

 Then we went on the Kilimanjaro Safari ride-which I think is my favorite ride.  I love looking at all the animals up close!

We had never seen the parade there so we checked it out.  Cooper was so excited to see the characters.  He sat and waved the entire time.

 Jackson just spotted Mickey so he was excited.  Blurry picture but I love how excited he was! :)

The highlight of this park for Cooper was Expedition Everest.  He actually rode on that big and scary ride, I couldn't believe it!  He rode it more than once!  I was very impressed, and I had fun riding on it with him!  Then we had to leave the park and say goodbye to Ryan. 

4th Day at Disney!-Magic Kingdom again

We had the most beautiful weather while we were there!  60s and 70s and it only rained about 30 minutes the entire time!  There was this beautiful tree right outside our hotel room that I just had to get the boys to pose under.

 

 They were good sports :).  These are their Mickey shirts from last year, they actually still fit this year!

 On day four we had a breakfast scheduled at our hotel.  They had a really good breakfast buffet with these cute mickey waffles. 

 The kids got to meet Pooh...

 tigger, Alice in Wonderland, and someone else.  Can't remember who?

 Our family! 

 The beautiful castle!

 Waiting in line at Space Mountain.  Cooper was so scared of it last year but this year he LOVED it!

 We rode lots of rides and then headed to the new section of the park.  We ate dinner at the Be Our Guest restaurant-the new restaurant at the park.  They delivered our food in these food carts.  So cute and on theme!

 We ate in this beautiful room where Belle and the Beast were.

 Beast's room was there too.  This restaurant had a 2 hour wait at least, but luckily our hotel gave us fast passes so we had no wait!!!

 This is next to the hotel!

 Waiting in line to ride the race cars!

 On the way home we rode the boat back to our hotel (you can see our hotel in the background).  We had a little wait and so I took a few pictures of the kids.

 When we got back to the hotel, we took the kids to the beach to take a few pictures.  They weren't really that into pictures so we just took a few and then they ran around and played!

The end of day 4!!

Day 3-Epcot

I need to finish up these Disney posts!  So on Day 3 we went to Epcot.  Laura was healthy enough to join us.  Here we are waiting for the monorail..we took it to most of the parks, it was awesome!

 

 We were a little late for our breakfast reservation so we had to run here!  It was the castle in "Norway" part of Epcot.

 

 

 There were a few princesses to meet here.  This is how Jackson felt when we tried to get him to stand by them.

 The other kids loved it though!

 We eventually got him to show them his muscles. :)

 The princesses did a little parade around the restaurant and the kids (except for Jackson) joined in.

 Jackson tolerated Ariel.

 But still no picture.  The other kids loved it though!  Especially our princess Elizabeth.

 For Snow White he showed his muscles again.  She was appropriately impressed :)

 It was Benny Boy's birthday so we celebrated his bday!

 Had to try to get a few pics of my boys!

 It was very hard to get them to stop and pose for me.  Jackson LOVED his ears and didn't want to leave without them.  Cooper wanted to leave his in the room though.

 All four kids in front of the classic Epcot ride! We actually rode it this trip and it was really fun, we all loved it!

 We went to get on the Nemo ride and to look at all of the aquariums.  They had dolphins swimming around-just beautiful!

 Everyone went on the Soaring ride so I stayed back with this cutie.  Think he liked his mickey ice cream bar?

 We checked out all of the countries in Epcot.  They were really fun and interesting!

 As we were walking around we happened to see some familiar characters! Jackson knew who they were so he was ok with meeting them!

 Then everyone went on another big ride (can't remember what it was) and I stayed with my mom and Jackson while we checked out China!  Made me really excited to see the real thing!

 Oh these crazy kids, they have such a fun time together!

We rode a bunch of rides and really enjoyed Epcot!