blair and maisy: FLORIDA, and...

March 30, 2014

FLORIDA, and...

9 day vaca, with only one day not jam-packed! Our kind of fun!!!
1st stop: St. Augustine Florida, the oldest inhabited city in America.

Next stop: Kennedy Space Center

So Kennedy was way, way more than I was expecting. I thought one building, and a tour, right? 5 hours should be good. Umm no. Try more like 10 buildings, 2 Imax movies, a tour that takes like an hour and takes you to another building exhibit in the middle of that. It's expensive too. Glad we went though.

Touching a moon rock

The real Atlantis! Such a cool exhibit. Let's just say a winding grand entrance, movie, interactive exhibits, play areas, space shuttle ride, multiple levels, and that was just one building at this place!

Blair's new favorite pizza place.

stuffed pepperoni

balloon animals

ORLANDO, fun hotel.

Sea World!

DISNEY WORLD!!!

Magic Kingdom

Haunted mansion

Got stuck on Pirates of the Carribean. Got to see this scene for like a 1/2 hour, until we moved around the corner and I saw another scene for maybe another 15min.

We had to exit out the back and go on an insanely long walk to get back into the park. Not so "magical" out back lol.

The gate to get back into the park.

Dude, I was taking this game super serious. Had to beat Blair.

Claire quite excited to be on It's a Small World

The boys being manly posing with Kind Triton.

The first of many princess encounters for Claire. You will be amazed at how many princesses we saw.

"see mom, I told you she was real."

Disneyworld's Animal Kingdom

Disneyworld's Hollywood Studios

Indiana Jones show

Backlot tour

NY behind us

stunt car show

Disneyworld's Epcot

This is what goes on inside the Epcot ball.

Xander wants this car when he grows up, he says.

Princess lunch (worth it not to have to wait in lines for more princesses lol).

Here are Frozen's Ana and Elsa. I snapped a picture of the back of them as they were coming back from break. The line was 2 1/2 hours to see them. Yep you heard me. There was no way we were waiting in that, so I was ecstatic when they walked by us while we were in the Norway section of Epcot, to go back into their private room where you have to wait in line all day.

I snapped a picture of Mulan with another kid, because I didn't want to wait in line for another princess, and she was outside in plain sight ;) Wasn't she cute though?

The Terracotta warriors in China.

Italy

Japan

The Epcot show at night.

Special meet & greet and freebie pics for having a Disney visa card:

LEGOLAND

a full size car made of legos

Saw our friends, the Loftins, who used to live across the street from us here, on our way back in Destin, FL.

A quick Happy Birthday to Blair and I, and then he had to leave us and go work 3 hours away for the rest of the month on a rotation up in Jackson, MS.

Until next time Disney! And it might actually be quite a bit longer than we've been used to since we have gotten word that we are probably relocating to Anchorage, Alaska this summer! Surprise!!!

The funnies

Will 12/14 " Mom can you please pour the milk for me because it’s almost full, and there’s a 65% chance that I’ll spill it."

11/14 Me: Why did you dump out all the toys?

Claire: Because I was trying to find something to play with

Me: What did you find?

Claire: The glow in the dark dinosaur

Me: Then why didn’t you put the other toys back?

Claire: Because I had to use the bathroom, so I just runned.

Claire 11/14 "Mom I can’t find any of my jammies, so should I bring you the sew kit so you can sew me some?"

Claire 11/14 "What do these constructions say?"

11/14 Claire: Mom Can I have this?

Me: Sure

Claire: Yes!!! Mom, thanks for asking me!

Claire 11/14 "Oh my Geez"

Claire 11/14 "I had a great dream last night. I got to see Dixie, and eat shrimp!"

Claire 11/14 "Our scarecrow fell over, but we’ll still be able to find our house because you know the numbers!"

Will 11/14 "The only good thing that happened to me today, was that Kord gave me a penny. But then I lost it."

Claire 9/13 "I love polka-dot butterflies."

Claire 9/13 " This pencil needs to get sharpt. Can I sharpt this pencil in myself?"

Claire 9/13 after pulling a piece of tape off of something successfully, "I am a great job."

Claire 8/13 "One time a dog pooped on the grass."

Me, "Why are you telling me that?"

Claire, "Because it was weally gross, PU!"

Claire 8/13 I walked in and exclaimed what a mess it was. "I didn't got that out," said Claire pointing at one little thing.

Claire 10/12 "Ehhhhh he he, ehhh he he."

Gaurd at the Airforce gate, "That sounds like a fake cry."

Me, "Yep."

Claire, "Ehhh he he, ehhh he he. It NOT a fake cwy."

Will 10/12 "Mom, could I miss school on Wednesday, because they're going to learn something really hard like minus?"

Me, "Well what would you do the next day when they were still learning more about that?"

Will, "No mom, we don't have to make up the homework when we miss."

Claire 10/12 "You not funny Will."

Claire 10/12 (almost in tears with the saddest little voice because she wanted all of the toys) "Mommy, brothers not sharing a me."

Claire 10/12 chasing her brothers around slowly with her arms outstretched says, "Bwains, bwains, bwains!" just like a real zombie.

Will 10/12 "Xander is white, and I'm white, and mom's white and Claire is white and dad's a little white."

Will 3/12 "Dad and I are getting gooder at disc golf."

Xander 3/12 seeing frozen peas in his drink that had spilled into the icebox, "Mom, there are green cotton balls in my drink."

Will 12/11 "I know something that's not a word: spit-buggar."

Claire 12/11 "Ha ha, fuh-ee (funny)"

Will 12/11 after he broke a plastic fork, "I would like to put it in recycling because that saves the world."

Will 11/11 as he rubs the carpet, "I like this house because it's hairier than the other one."

Will 9/11 "Mom, could you call my nickname 'shark' please?"

Will 9/11 in a prayer while Blair was away for a month, "Bless that we would ever see dad again, and if we drive there it wouldn't be too long."

Will 3/11 after I asked him how primary was, he said, "I was the 1st kid in class. I thought I was going to have to taught myself."

Will 3/11 "Mom, is today fast Sunday."

Me "What is fast Sunday Will?"

Will, "When we eat really fast."

Will 3/11 "Xander is saying mean things, like that I'm not the leader."

Blair told Will to go to the bathroom with him while we were out somewhere and he was doing the potty dance 3/11, "Hey I had to go to the bathroom too!"