Focht Family Blog

Tuesday was our busy day. Nathan and I got up early and went on an off-road Segway tour around Fort Wilderness. It was SO much fun. I told mom I would take her on the Segway tour of Epcot on our next trip to Disney. Here is a spot that we stopped for pictures. The tour guide took a picture of Nathan and I on our Segways.

After we got back from our tour we made lunch and started to get ready for the Princess and Pirate night at the Kingdom. We arrived early at the park and we had four or five families ask to have pictures with us. They thought we worked for the park. One of the employees near the Pirates of the Caribbean ride offered to take a picture of all of us. Samantha wanted to be a princess so she was our prisoner for the night. We even bought her a pair of shackles to wear.

We were able to catch one of the special shows before dinner. Samantha and Josh took it as an opportunity to dance to the music.

We were also able to ride the carousel. We found out a tidbit of trivia on our tour and we were told which horse is Cinderella’s. We hunted for it and Samantha was able to ride on it. It has a gold ribbon wrapped around its tail.

Here are Nathan and Josh on their horses…

Timmy was next to me so I couldn’t get him and his horse but here is Timmy….

Next we went to the castle to have dinner with Cinderella. At lunch all of the princesses come and visit you so I was expecting the same. You still get your picture with Cinderella before dinner but the only characters at dinner were the Fairy Godmother and a couple of the mice and they didn’t personally greet each table. I would do lunch again but the dinner wasn’t worth the cost. It was wonderful food but you pay extra for the characters and the pictures and that part was not worth it. Here is a picture of Josh. On his left cheek you can see a red mark. He was kissed by Cinderella and it is her lipstick…

Timmy was being very grumpy while we were waiting in line for our pictures. He wouldn’t cheer up for the picture so this is the memory he will have of dinner with Cinderella…

Oh well… he cheered up once we were called for dinner because he received a sword. Both boys got a sword and Samantha got a wand. After dinner we walked around to all of the treasure spots and ended up with LOTS of beads. It looked like we had been to Mardi Gras. We caught a few shows, including one where they teach the kids how to be Princess Jasmine’s guards. The man in charge yelled that they forgot the swords for the demonstration and Joshua threw his in. He was trying to be helpful and the guy took it well and joked about it. However, the Disney employees who were trying to make sure the kids didn’t cross the rope line were annoyed.

While we were walking towards one of the treasure spots we crossed over the path where the parade was getting ready to start. One of the employees was sitting in the middle of the road so my family joined her and waved at the crowd…

The kids enjoyed being on display… we stuck around until the fireworks started going off and then we called it a night.

The next day was spent at Independence RV in Winter Garden. They were able to repair the short that caused the fire and replaced the headlight. Mom and I walked the kids down the road to a local diner for breakfast while Nathan stayed with Misty. We had lunch from a nice lunch truck that stopped at the RV center. I had a wonderful empanada and Nathan had some lasagna. Unfortunately the truck didn’t have anything the kids liked so they basically had chips and soda. After lunch we asked if it would be okay if the kids and I stayed in the coach if we stayed in the back so we spent the afternoon watching videos in the back of the coach where we were out of their way but the kids were at least able to play with their toys and stay out of trouble.

When we got back to Fort Wilderness, Nathan had to take a phone call outside. Josh is getting to the stage where he likes to imitate Nathan so he took his toy phone outside and followed Nathan around. We couldn’t help getting pictures because he was doing such a great job matching Nathan stride for stride and movement for movement.