The End of Vacation: Tired Kids and Burnt Legs (mine)

 If you saw this little runt walking around by the pool, how could you not smile?

 The boys.

 The girl.

 The birthday buddies...breakfast in bed!

 Down time ~ watching tv before some MORE swimming.  We swam every day except one.  It was 85 and sunny each day.  Thank You God!

 Driving home from the airport - sleepy heads.

I got this sunburn on the last day in FL (of course!).  My sister the dermatologist is so going to yell at me...sigh!

We had such an awesome trip.  We ate ice cream every day, swam and walked around a TON, and laughed together like crazy.  There were a few meltdowns (ahem...Maggie) but overall the kids did extraordinarily well.  We are saving our money to go back in five years (hopefully!).

Disney World: Day 2

My Dad, "wearing" his sunscreen.  So punny:

AH, Maggie...so dramatic!

This nice guy, working at the Buzz Lightyear ride, stopped to talk to Eamon who was wearing his new Buzz Lightyear hat from Gammy.  He discovered that Eamon is a HUGE fan of Buzz Lightyear, and gave us a pass to come back anytime and skip the line.  So Eamon got to go on his favorite ride three times!

The boys thought their great laser skills on the ride were actually the reason the Zurg was imprisoned!

Sometimes she's nice...

Snow White...that's for you, Laura:

Dopey...that's for you, Mom:

The sword in the stone:

Splash Mountain ~ John-Paul and Andrew in the last row, Phil, Eamon & Maggie in front of them:

So I have one bone to pick with Disney.  Not only do you have to wait in line for rides (understandable) but you also have to wait in line to meet the characters.  I think they should have the characters waiting by the rides with the long lines, so that halfway through the line-ride, you get to meet the character.  Makes sense, right?

Enjoying our tropical soft serve and pineapple floats..mmm!

Dumbo.  The longest ride we had to wait in for the worst ride.  But the littles wanted to do it :)

Eamon's Buzz Lightyear hat glows in the dark, so on every ride that went inside, he would take off his hat and look at it with pride.  So cute!

Shooting The Evil Emperor Zurg:

The Making Dreams Come True Parade:

Disney World: Day One

The Magic Kingdom Castle (for Lilly, my niece):

Grandpa and John-Paul go for a spin:

Phil, Andrew and Eamon are speedsters:

Maggie LOVES Minnie Mouse:

The Mad Tea Cups:

We happened to walk in front of the castle right before Mickey's show was going to start.  It was awesome!

Waiting in line...

Waiting for the parade:

And here it comes!!!

On the ferry ride back to the car:

A story: A little girl (about 3) lost her Mickey balloon when she got on the ferry.  She was crying hysterically, and we all felt so sorry for her.   The balloon flew off, but had a weight on the bottom of the string so it was dragging across the water and up onto the coast.  A Disney worker jumped in his speedboat and raced off after it across the water and beached his boat, hopped off, and ran up the coast to catch it.  He got it!  Then he drove his boat to where we were getting off the ferry and gave it back to the little girl.  Everyone on the ferry was watching the exciting chase scene, and cheering loudly for the heroic balloon catcher.  It was great!