Disney World

DISNEY WORLD MAY 2011!!!

We got to spend 5 days in Orlando, 4 of those days were in the Disney parks. We went to Animal Kingdom the first day, which is best described as a really really awesome zoo! Our favorite ride of the park was Expedition Everest. We went on this ride at least 6 or 7 times, and after a couple my Mom was done riding. But she got this sweet picture of us! We are actually on this!!

They have a safari that we went on with all different types of animals from different parts of the world. It was pretty exciting! I would be lying if I told you that this is our safari truck, and that my mom snuck out and got this really great picture of us (see there I am waving) :) Just kidding. But I thought it was a pretty cool picture of the safari ride!

Here is all of us in front of the famous Animal Kingdom Tree! The day we went to Animal Kingdom was Paul's birthday. He wore a "Happy Birthday" pin, so everyone could say Happy Birthday to him!

Happy Birthday to Pirate Paul :) It was a very fun day!

Magic Kingdom was my favorite! Everything about Magic Kingdom is so magical (hence the name, very well thought out) I love all the attractions, decorations, characters, it's all so awesome. Pirates of the Caribbean, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Buzz Lightyear, The Jungle Cruise, Peter Pan, Splash Mountian (yes we got soaked!), The Haunted Mansion (Paul screamed like a girl), Monsters Inc Laugh Floor, I think I'm missing a few, some of these we went on a few times! The Monster's laugh floor was really funny, It's an improv show full of jokes, my Dad even got on camera to be asked a question, it was so fun!

Andrea has a friend that works at Magic Kingdom during the summer, Joseph. He hooked us up the whole week with lots of fast passes,  front of the line spots over and over again. It's defiantly worth having a friend inside! It was awesome. He is a really cool guy. 

I think we did everything we wanted to! One of our favorites is Space Mountain

We went to Hollywood Studios the next day. This was show day! Lots of fun shows: a cool stunt show based off of Indiana Jones, The American Idol experience, Beauty and The Beast musical, Fantasmic (night show with water and lights and lots of characters), also an awesome car stunt show called Lights, Motor, Action. There was also really a cool roller coaster called The Rockin' Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith! 

It was a very fun roller coster with Aerosmith songs playing, a very smooth ride going upside down, take the back of the ride, it's the best! Even Mom loved it. She went on it a few times, along with the rest of us! Another really fun ride was and interactive Toy Story game. Before our trip to Florida my Mom and Dad met with Brother and Sister Bailey, they gave them all the ins and outs of Disney World, even down to where to sit at each show! They told us right when we got to Hollywood Studios to go right over to Toy Story and get fast passes. Good thing they told us, that is a very popular ride! Fast passes run out very fast! 

All the decorations in every ride at Disney World makes the whole experience so awesome. Everything thing is so well thought out! Toy Story has some very cleaver decorations. Toy Story was a very fun ride, we could have ridden it again and again! But we just didn't have time to, the line was so long and no more of our fast passes that we love so much. 

The next day was Epcot! Epcot was so cool! We got there before the park was open, because we got to have breakfast with the princesses, They breakfast was in Norway. A very European breakfast with things we usually don't eat for breakfast: fish, cheese slices and interesting croissant things. 

They came right to our table! We were the very first table they saw. We really like Arial's dress. She said it was made out of seaweed:) They were all very cute! We loved the Princess breakfast!

Epcot is a very big park! All the parks are big but Epcot just seemed extra big. Maybe because by this day we were all pretty tired but still having so much fun. Epcot is a few rides but the mostly the park is a big horseshoe shaped area of a bunch of different countries! Every country had little shops and restaurants, some had attractions and others had short movies about the country, everything seems so authentic! The workers in each of the countries were even from the country they were working in. It was pretty cool. Again, another very carefully thought out detail! Paul was excited to get to the United Kingdom and find authentic fish and chips! We shared some chips together, they were very tasty! 

In Japan there was a lady making little animals out of candy, it was pretty amazing to watch her.  My mom was excited to get to France! She said the things there were very much like the things in France, everything down to little candies that were in the shops. You can't see in the picture, but there is a mini Eiffel Tower there too. 

One of the rides was mission space. This ride was a simulator ride that simulates a space craft going to mars. You could choose "Less Intense" or "More Intense". Basiclly it was either no spinning or spinning. In the spinning one, the simulator would spin 35 MPH to act like G-force. We did less intense the first time we went, it was pretty cool but kind of whimpy. My Dad, Andrea and I wanted to go on the more intense one, now that we knew better. Paul didn't go the first time but concluded when we were on our way the second time: "You go big or go home!" I think he enjoyed himself. 

Another cool ride was test track. It was a ride that took us thorough all the test that a car would maybe go through when tested. Incline, bumps, heat, cold, sharp corners, swerving with and without ABS breaks, and our favorite speed! At they end of the ride, (GM was obviously the sponsor) They had a bunch of cars set up to look at and even buy, A GM representative is standing by for any questions!

One of the highlights of the day was Emily got to see Tinkerbell. Disneyland doesn't have Tinkerbell, at least when we were there. But Epcot has her, and she is very popular! Emily and Mom waited almost and hour to see her. We didn't wait in any lines to see the characters so we didn't have any papers to for them to sign. So Emily asked Tink is she wanted to sign her shirt, Tink told Emily, No sorry mouse's rules. We thought that was interesting. A nice lady had a piece of paper so that Emily could get her signature!

                                                      

We had so much fun and can't wait to go back! We loved every minute of it. It was the best trip ever!

After Florida we went to Colorado. Emily graduated High School! It was very fun!

She had a graduation party that night at the church filled with pizza, volleyball and dodge-ball, lots of people came! Everyone loves Emily! Congratulation class of 2011!!!