Disney

Day 3 was spent at Disney's Magic Kingdom.  It started as a chilly rainy morning, but turned into a great day! 

The only picture of all 4 of us from the trip (maybe we should have bought that selfie stick, just kidding)  and I look weird with that hood on.  Should have just accepted the wet hair.

It's a small world!

My homeland!  :)

We caught the tail end of this parade and it was just right.  The kids weren't crazy about watching parades and Mackenzie had no interest in meeting princesses (much to the relief of Nick and Rylan) - all they wanted to do was ride, ride, ride!

Mackenzie was excited to see Mickey though - he's her favorite thing about Disney!

It felt we hustled from thing to thing to get it all done, but this sign in the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse made me pause a bit.   A good way to think about life.

Goof balls!

I didn't take a ton of pictures at Disney - partly because I wasn't feeling the greatest.  I think I was getting a bit dehydrated because after guzzling a $4 bottle of powerade and a little rest in the shade, I did feel better.  We were all sure to drink more water after that.

We watched Elsa freeze Cinderella's castle!  It was pretty magical and gave me goosebumps when it all lit up.  I can't believe I got the fireworks in the picture!

Our favorite things at Disney were Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Space Mountain.  We went on all 3 multiple times and had a blast!  No tricks at Disney - we tried getting right back on rides, but no go there.  It was definitely busier at Disney than at Universal, so we decided as a family not to spend any more days at Disney.  We found the fast passes confusing too, they weren't explained well, so we didn't know that things filled up.  We never ended up using them because the timing was never right.  

We spent one day hanging out and taking it easy.  We slept in, watched TV, drove around the area a bit and found a great mini-golf place.  I was the big winner, beating these 3 by quite the margin!  I thought I saved the score card to prove it - Nick must have thrown it away!  :)

We then were able to hang out and have dinner with a high school friend of mine who lives near Orlando.  It was so great to see her again and our kids had so much fun together.  Because the 4 of us had been spending every hour in close proximity to each other, I think it was much needed for them to run and play and for us to have adult conversations!

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