Disneyworld 2010

What can I say....we had a great vacation!!  The weather was perfect the entire trip - 80's & sunny everyday!!  We arrived Friday late morning and took the Magical Express to our hotel - Caribbean Beach Resort.  We stayed in "Barbados".  Overall the hotel was nice, but seeing as this is one of their largest resorts it was a little too spread out.  I think if we were to stay there again we would want to stay at Old Port Royale which is where all the food places are as well as the main pool with the slides for the kids.  Anyway, after checking in we headed for Epcot to start the adventure.  I won't bore you with the play by play, but there are a bunch of pictures to follow which capture some of the great moments:

 Dinner with the Princesses at Akershus (Norway @ EPCOT)

Watch out....the kids got their Speedway Licenses:

Dinner at Tony's Restaurant (from Lady & the Tramp) in Magic Kingdom:

The castle

Time to travel the countries (EPCOT)

Duffy Bear - Mickey Mouse's Teddy Bear

Mr Photogenic this trip

C'est Paris!

Oooo-la-la :)

Dinner with my girl at Le Cellier in O Canada!

My loves in visiting America

Hmmm....my loves again??  Hahaha

Touring the "islands" of our resort on a Surrey Bike.  Talk about Flintstone power....iyiyiy.  There was a big hill on the one side that the guy told us to get a running start at and of course Jason is pedaling like crazy and I'm laughing so hard I'm not helping at all....by the time we got to the top of the bridge it was debatable who was more out of breath...him for pedaling or me for laughing.  Great time!

Ding Ding...watch out...coming through!!

Back to Epcot for some educational games.  I really think the kids had the most fun here.  There was the Great Piggy Bank Adventure (seen below) where you set a goal (ie vacation, bedroom makeover, college) and then you get a piggy bank to play 3 games to see if you can save and grow your money enough to reach your goal. 

 This was an energy saver game....it was this shuffleboard like game where you provide power to a city.  The more "clean" power you provide the bigger your city is...this is them playing:

Other games like this included a garbage truck thing that you get to learn about recycling, landfill management, etc....I know it sounds a little strange, but the way the setup the games are so creative and exciting for the kids..they loved it.  We also did the IBM sponsored "Smarter Planet" booth where you get to create your own video game.  You go in and they take images of you jumping, running and dancing...then it is put into a video game...pretty cool.  Here is a link to the one Jason & Noah made (it's only available for 30 days or so):

http://www.thinkingofyoupostcards.com/runtime/play?Guestcode=KQKQ6VM1AHFM6Q

Some downtown Disney shots:

All made out of legos...can you spot the Fernets?

Last, but not least was the special Pirate Adventure we signed the kids up for.  It was a 2 hr cruise that only kids were allowed to go on...no parents!!  They had to follow the clues to get all the pieces of the treasure map and then figure out where the treasure was.  The pirate boat (below) sailed all around Barefoot Bay which was the lake that all the Caribbean Beach Resort hotels surrounded.  At the end of the excursion all the pirates got a loot bag from the treasure chest.  The kids had a blast!!

Arghhh Mateys!!

I hope this gives you a small glimpse into all the fun we had last week.  We took a break almost every day to swim back at the hotel and rest before going back to the parks at night.  Kylie was a trooper and walked the entire time with probably only a 1/4 of the complaining I expected.  Noah on the other hand was a lazy little bum that climbed in the stroller every chance he got...hahahaha.  Going to be a rude awakening for him when we go back in 2 years without strollers!!

So back to reality with lots of busyness this week between work, school, Halloween....so stay tuned!!