If you have made it to the words through all these pictures, you must be one of my best friends. Or family of course. I could not begin to sum up this trip in words so I had to include the millions of pictures just to show you! We truly had a ball. Everything was so magical. To see my child's face light up when she saw characters made it the best vacation ever. Her excitement was contagious and I found myself wanting to run to the next thing!
So here is an overview...
Got there late Saturday, I headed to the wedding and Sweecie and Poppy went swimming with Abby Kate and had a picnic of pizza by the pool. AK was already in heaven. Swimming and pizza are two of her favorite things! We had a ball at the wedding. It was a beautiful outdoor reception on a lake with high 60 degree weather. Perfect.
Sunday we rested and got to spend time with one of Bobby's best friends who lives far away. Super fun.
Monday we went to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure and AK had a ball in the Dr. Suess section of the park. We rode the carosel over and over.
Tuesday we went to MGM. It was so fun. The highlight for AK was seeing Playhouse Disney live on stage and we loved the Toy Story section of the park. We got to see our first parade and the unexpected joy of the day was popping in a character buffet that was not busy and AK getting to meet the Little Einsteins and JoJo and Golieth (all playhouse Disney shows). She absolutely fell in love with June, the ballerina from Little Einsteins, and talked about her the rest of the trip. She constantly asked, "Where did my friend June go?" She also got to meet Minnie for the first time. She was in awe.
Wednesday we rested. I had a little accident at lunch. We had rented a mini-van and I was sitting behind my Dad who was driving. We were getting out to eat and I guess I extended my foot and Dad shut his door like a normal person and my foot got smashed. What moron puts her foot in the door? So of course, it swelled up and bruised awfully but I got to ride in style on Thursday at Magic Kingdom in a wheelchair (it was really embarrassing). We also got to eat on Wednesday night at one of my favorite restaurants, Buca di Beppo. YUM!
Thursday was the pinnacle. We started at the Bipiddy Boppidy Boutique where AK amazed us all (except her Daddy who had said all along she would do wonderfully) by sitting super still and letting them make her over. She choose the rock star look as you will see in pictures that had people stopping and oohing and aaahing over her all day...which she loved. She actually STILL has glitter in her hair. Her favorite ride was the race cars, which she got to drive 4 times. B rode with her and said she giggled the whole time! SO wish I had been able to ride with her once! But they are pretty serious about labeling the rides expectant mothers cannot ride. I think I got to ride 3 rides in 7 days. Bummer.
Anyway, it was such a special day. The fireworks and parade were beautiful. We left very content and happy!
Thank you Sweecie and Poppy for helping us make this trip possible. It was so special!
