Day 6- Hollywood Studios Again

We headed to Hollywood Studios again to visit our favorite rides again.  We saw Jake and the three older kids wanted a picture with him. 

 

Then we saw the army guy by the Buzz Lightyear ride.

Ben and I rode on the Toy Story ride together and got stuck for a few minutes so I had a chance to take a picture of him on the ride!

We then went to the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play area.  The kids were so excited to finally play here!

We arrived really early at Hollywood Studios to sign the kids up for the Star Wars training.  Jackson wasn't old enough, but Cooper, Ben, and  Elizabeth did it.  See them right in the middle?  The kids went on the stage in front of all the parents and all the kids practiced together fighting with a light saber.

 

Then Darth Vader interrupted the lesson and the kids had to fight him!!  Here is Elizabeth.

 

Ben...

 and unfortunately I was video-taping Cooper so I didn't get a picture of him fighting Darth! :(  I think Laura and my mom did.  He was so serious and looked a little scared, I think he thought Darth was the real deal.

 Here he is, so proud with his certificate saying he completed the training!

Afterward we watched the parade.

 

 Laura and Tom had taken Elizabeth on a ride so we had the boys.  Here are Grandma and Grandpa with their boys!

 We watched the Indiana Jones show and then right afterward the boys saw these guns.  Just what I love seeing my little 3 year-old holding. :)

 After the show we met up with Laura, Tom, and Elizabeth and we all got a few treats as we were leaving.  We got a funnel cake and somehow Ben ended up with it all over his back!  Guess we adults were a little too enthusiastic about it :).

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!!