Halloween at Disney

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This Halloween I decided that each of the kids should have something special for their costumes. This started because I was going to let Timmy get his hair spiked at the barber shop on Main Street. Here is Timmy’s hair…

Samantha and Josh both had their faces painted. Here is Samantha’s fairy paint…

Joshua had his face painted like a pirate since he was Captain Hook…

Here is Nathan with his beard in full pirate mode…

The kids wanted to go on the teacups and since I was the only one willing to go with them I had Nathan take pictures. So… here is a picture of ME with the kids in the teacup…

As I mentioned this time around Joshua was really into meeting characters. Halloween offered character greetings that they don’t usually have or that I have never noticed. The first characters that we noticed that we haven’t seen before was Peter Pan and Wendy. Peter Pan had a great time bothering Timmy for dressing like him….

Here are the kids with Rafiki and King Louie (both I have seen out before)…

And here they are with Tarzan and Turk. I think this is the first time I have ever seen Tarzan…

Disney Drama

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Thursday morning was spent with Nathan getting his beard braided for Halloween while I got allergy shots. Here are Nathan’s braids….

Then we headed to the Kingdom after lunch. Here is a picture of Josh and Samantha with Snow White…

Friday we went to the pool. This sounded like a great idea. They have a new pool with a water slide and a splash zone area for the smaller kids as well as a jacuzzi for the adults. Samantha was playing in the splash zone with her brothers although technically she is too tall for it (parents were in there as well). She was getting up off the slide and cut her foot open. I was shocked at how many levels you have to go up before you get help. I asked the lifeguard if they had a first aid kit. They had to get the pool manager. She was only able to give us ice and a band-aid. They had to call the ambulance for further than that. The ambulance cleaned it out and taped it…

Then we ended up taking her to an urgent care center. People were looking like they were dying inside there so Nathan waited for her name to be called while Samantha and I waited outside. While we waited outside we watched a woodpecker…

They decided not to stitch or staple because of where it was. So they used steri strips to close the wound and then we had to keep it wrapped in gauze and an ace bandage for 5 days while she stayed off her feet. Fort Wilderness gave us a wheelchair to use while she needed it. Friday night we already had reservations for dinner and seating for Fantasmic. Here is a picture of Nathan pushing Samantha and Josh in the chair…

I believe she liked being the princess for a few days! :) This is actually the first time that we have been to Fantasmic. Here is a picture of the stage before the show…

And here are two pictures taken during the show…

Another trip to Disney

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We woke up early to get going to Disney on October 27. However… the RV wouldn’t start! The kids were not happy about this turn of events. The RV had a problem starting a couple of times while we were in Atlanta and I guess we should have taken care of it. Oh well… we called Cummins and they couldn’t send someone until the next day. We found a mobile repair that came out to the RV park after a couple of hours. He was able to jump start the RV… something about a cylnoid (sp?). We made it to Disney a couple of hours later than we wanted but we made it. Of course the kids wanted to make sure they went to a park so we went to Epcot for a couple of hours because it was the only park still open.

We went on the first ride they saw… Spaceship Earth. I had bought a book on some of the Disney secrets and learned that if you took a picture of the wall on the right just past the cavemen something shows up with the flash…

We also did one more assignment with Kim Possible, this time in Mexico. Here are the kids and Nathan receiving the first clue…

That was pretty much it for the night. Everyone was getting grumpy so we decided to get a good night’s rest and go to Animal Kingdom the next day. Once at Animal Kingdom we went on the Safari ride and then we all went on Kali River Rapids since Josh is big enough to ride it now. We took some pictures of the empty lines so we can remember what they looked like. We figure it will be much more crowded at Christmastime.

Josh discovered characters on this trip so he wanted to meet them all. We actually had to buy him an autograph book because he wanted them to sign his book. Here is his first character that he found… Terk from Tarzan…

Here is a picture of the kids with Goofy and Pluto…

And just as we were leaving Josh spotted the Pooh characters hiding off to the side, so of course we had to turn around and get pictures with them all…

Toy Story Mania

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We were planning on going to extra hours for Hollywood Studios on Monday night but we were too tired so instead we got up for the extra hours in the morning on Tuesday. On the advice of Marc, we went straight to the Fast Pass distribution. Our Fast Pass was for 9:15 so we got in line. We were able to get two rides in before our Fast Pass time so we ended up getting to ride 3 times! Definitely worth getting up early. Here is Nathan and Samantha right before the ride started.

When we were waiting in line for the second ride the boys decided they were tired of standing up and gave Nathan some exercise…

Nathan was thrilled that he was able to get the high score twice in a row so we took pictures of his high score being displayed…

After our 3 rides we went on Star Tours once more. Then since it was our last day we decided to go to the 50’s Prime Time Cafe for lunch. It is designed to look like you are eating in a 50’s kitchen complete with TVs that show clips from 50’s shows. Here is a picture of the kids sitting in one of the living rooms waiting for our name to be called.

After lunch we headed back to camp. I haven’t figured out how Nathan does it without falling over, but he grabs Josh’s handlebars and pulls him when he starts to fall behind. Here is Nathan towing him back to camp.

After we got back I decided that I would take the kids to one of the scheduled activities. Unfortunately nobody showed up for the activity but us, including Disney staff. But I let the kids play on the playground for awhile before we headed back.

Tuesday night my cousin Brian and his wife Erica came for dinner. I forgot to get a picture. :( I made dinner and Brian brought the dessert. He made brownies and lemon bars. Both were absolutely delicious. They came over to check out Fort Wilderness while they were there because Erica is trying to get Brian to go camping for a weekend. :)

When Nathan took Misty out for her nightly walk he heard scurrying. This was the second night that he opened the door to an armadillo at our campsite. I was able to get a picture of him as he was running to the site next to us.

Wednesday morning we headed out to get back to Georgia for Nathan’s company camping trip. We made it to camp by 5:00 or so and hooked up as it was getting dark and then Nathan and I drove to his parents to pick up a trailer and then went shopping in Savannah to get groceries. We didn’t get back to camp until after 1:00! We ended up with 7 carts of groceries and then had to store all of them in coolers and boxes before leaving the parking lot!

Kim Possible England Spoiler

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England was much better. You are after Duff Killigan to stop him from spreading grass seeds all over the world and then causing it to rain to create golf courses. You start out looking for a toy soldier in a window. When you find it Flynn Cognito starts to talk through the soldier giving you information.

Next you are sent to the Tea Shop where you have to give a coded message to the shop keeper. When you give him the message he gives you a tea bag. The type of tea is the answer you need to get your next clue.

The next clue sends you to a sports store where you have to find a shield that has Killigan’s name on it. You trigger it and it turns around giving you another clue.

That clue sends you to a garden where you are looking for a butterfly exhibit. That triggers the butterfly wings to open giving you another clue that tells you that Killigan’s thugs are at the Rose and Crown where they are being arrested thanks to you.

Now you have to track down Killigan. You find a window that is his apartment and Wade triggers the weather so that the window starts filling with water. You can’t really see the water in the picture.

Now that Killigan has been stopped it is time to return the Kimmunicator…

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