More Adventures At Disney

On Sunday morning we headed to MGM Studios. We had a character breakfast at Hollywood and Vine which was just awesome. Afterwards we wandered around for a little while and got to see Lightening Mcqueen and Tow Mater from one of John Christian's favorite movies "Cars".
This was a HUGE DEAL for John Christian. We were also pretty impressed that they were real vehicles.

First site of Lightening.....

One Happy Boy

One Cool Race Car

JC with some random kid

He wanted to get inside them and drive.

No luck getting all 3 boys to look at the same time. I think they did, but some guy walked in front of the camera and I got the back of his head instead. Ugh!

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Epcot

John Christian's first real interest was the movie "Finding Nemo" at around 18 months of age. He could even quote the movie at that age which I found amazing! He is still a little scared of the shark Bruce, but enjoyed getting inside his mouth for a quick photo.

This is area of Epcot has just been redone and made into Nemo. The Nemo ride just opened in January & it was neat to be some of the first people to ride it. There is also a cool thing with the turtle Crush were he is in a big screen that makes it look like he's in the ocean and he interacts with people in the audience. It is absolutely amazing and the 2nd time we did it John Christian was one of the children he spoke with. I really do need to start carrying my video camera b/c flash photography was not allowed in there and John Christian was hysterical talking to him.

Snow White
John Christian loves Snow White.
He gave her lots of hugs and kisses. He wanted to kiss her on the mouth which was hysterical because I could tell she was a little freaked out & quickly told him that he could only kiss her on the cheek.

She kissed me!!!

This was one proud little boy! He wanted me to take pictures so that he could see the kiss on his face from Snow White. The next day when he woke up and realized the kiss had been washed off in the bath he cried and was very sad.

After meeting Snow White in Germany we headed off to "Japan" for dinner with friends. My roommate from Converse, KC and her family live just over an hour from Disney. They have season passes to Disney and drove up to have dinner and ride a few rides. It was so much fun to see them!!

Kate will be 4 in February and Frank

Tripp and Charlie are about 4 months apart in age.

After dinner, a few rides, hot chocolate, and chocolate chip cookies we decided we might as well stay for the fireworks show at Epcot. It is amazing and Zach had never seen it before. It was well worth staying up late to see.

I had to force Charlie to keep his socks on because it was very cold!

The Crawleys

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Monday, January 29, 2007
Animal Kingdom

While we were at the Animal Kingdom waiting for our Safari trip John Christian was given a special pin by one of the Disney Cast Members. These are special and only given out at random by a cast member as a part of the Year of a Million Dreams Special. There are actually 2 pins, one to keep and one to give away. I was not there when John Christian got his pin, but he saved the other one for me. Here he is pinning it on me. It was a precious moment that I will always treasure. Thanks John Christian for showing your mom a lot of love!

The 2 of us with our magic pins.

Charlie was a pretty sick little boy during this trip & we were happy whenever he got to take a little nap.

Charlie woke up in time for the Safari Ride which he absolutely loved!!

This deer doesn't even look real, but it is.

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Nile Crocodiles

This was one of the boys' favorite rides.

This giraffe practialy walked right up to our car.

Elephant

Pink Flamingos
(In Memory of Cousin Steve Roland)

Zebra

Warthogs??

There was a little petting zoo, but the only things there were goats and sheep.

John Christian was still impressed.

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Magic Kingdom Parade
We left the Animal Kingdom and headed over to the Magic Kingdom for the 3PM parade and dinner with some Characters from Winnie the Pooh.

Charlie enjoyed talking on his walkie talkie.

The parade as a BIG HIT with all of us and a lot of fun!

The Goofy "Barnstormer"!!!!
John Christian rode this 21 times! 12 of those were in a row without getting off! He love, love, loved this ride & to quote Zach was just as excited the 21st time as he was the 1st.