Last Day DISNEY DAY 5- back to Magic Kingdom

So, these photos are gonna be all out of order, but I can't get them straight, so I will explain as we go. Wednesday night ended up with Ben and Ellie throwing up.  Ben threw up a lot for a really long time so he was still really not feeling well the next morning.  Ellie on the other hand, threw up once and bounced right back ready to go.  Spence and debated back and forth what we should do with our last day.  We ultimately decided I would go with two kids into the Magic Kingdom, by myself.  Ya'll, did you hear me say I went into a park by myself?  It was an amazing day, though.  We were able to do lots, and Ben rested up with Dad and Haddie.  We were able to nap and then the whole family hit the park in the evening.  

I'm still in a bit of shock that I went with these two cuties into the park

We saw Mickey

We rode Dumbo, but they both really really enjoyed the play area before we rode the ride.  It was funny to me, but a good testament to kids loving to play

She was speechless meeting "the mermaid"

I snapped a couple really pretty pictures of the castle

love this one

Zeke is a pretty good photographer, and Ellie has fantastic posture apparently

This is "Puppy".  He hasn't left her side since we gave him to her, including going all through the park with us.  She kinda loves him a lot

While the boys went and rode Buzz and the Speedway, the girls went to see Minnie.  Ellie only wanted to see Minnie and refused to talk to Daisy.  She jumped and hugged Minnie

But she refused to have anything to do with Goofy

We were able to ride the carpets all together

Haddie really enjoyed meeting all the characters while Ellie was pouting and stomping.  Daisy kept trying to sign the boys autograph books that I was saving for Donal and Goofy's signatures.  She was pretty funny, but Ellie wasn't interested at all

Donald was really funny trying to get Ellie in the picture, but she was having none of it

She couldn't keep her eyes off her.

She even imitated her curtsy.  I melted into a puddle in the floor

This is us on the way out after we dominated the park

This sweet snuggle made me all teary

One of Ellie's favorite dances on Just Dance Disney is "Everybody Wants to be a Cat" so we had to meet Marie on our way out of the park.  We also met Pluto, but didn't get a great pic with him.

The Shelton Six with the Main Mouse

Haddie charmed Mickey

Disney Day 4- REST DAY

If you are going to Disney, I HIGHLY recommend a rest day in the middle of your trip.  It was so nice to not have any plans (well except a dinner reservation) for the day.  We woke up and leisurely made our way to Downtown Disney for the morning.  The boys were one tracked with the Lego store on their brains.  But were distracted in the World of Disney store by the "build your own light saber". They chose to spend part of their money on each making one while the girls and I wandered around and stared at all things Princess.  

We got to the Lego store.  We love seeing all the cool Lego things they have made and then the big kids all had fun building for a bit.  We let the boys combine their money left and they bought two Star Wars Lego sets (are you seeing a theme here?)

As we were leaving, we passed Rainforest Cafe (no we didn't go in and relive the nightmare of the dinner from 2012). We did run over to see the cool parrot though and the boys thought it was hilarious that she put him on their heads.  After this we headed over to Pop Century (next door to AoA) to grab some lunch and have a rest. While the girls rested though, the boys went swimming before dinner.

Dinner for the evening was at Boma at the Animal Kingdom Lodge.  The food was really yummy and mostly African in flare so that was really fun.  After dinner we happened to wander outside because I had heard you could see animals from the resort.  I am so, so glad we did.  I had been a little sad about not going to Animal Kingdom this trip, but seeing all these animals made me feel tons better about it.  Zeke and the cast members chatted quite a bit and they were impressed with his animal knowledge.  

Disney Day 3- Hollywood Studios

Tuesday we went to Hollywood Studios.  It was our first time going to this park and we weren't quite sure about it.  We scheduled an early breakfast at Hollywood and Vine.  We were really excited to see some Disney Jr characters.  We took advantage of being in the park really early and snapped some pictures on the empty streets, too.

Breakfast was a buffet and pretty yummy.  The characters were Sophia the first, Doc McStuffins, Handy Manny, and Jake.  They walked around and met with everyone to take pictures and sign autographs.  Then they would all do little dances to their theme songs or parade around and let the kids join in.

After breakfast, we wandered our way down to Star Tours, only to see some Jedi training.  Which we found out we should have sprinted to get our kids signed up for because we missed being able to do that.  We will know for next time.  The boys rode the Star Tours ride and loved it.  Then we caught The Little Mermaid and Disney Jr shows.  After that we headed over to grab some snacks and ride Toy Story Mania using our Fast Passes.  The Green Army Men were all over the area and were so awesome.  The boys loved watching them playing hide and seek with each other.  We decided not to stand in the super long line to meet Buzz and Woody, and headed back to the room for a rest.

We came back and had dinner at 50's PrimeTime, (pictures of Haddie trying to eat a lemon HA) then tried to figure out what to do next.  We wanted to catch the Indiana Jones show, but the timing didn't work out.  We ran over to Toy Story Mania to ride it again.  Only to get to the front of the line and Ellie needed to go potty.  So the boys rode while the girls went out.  We thought about meeting Buzz and Woody, but the line got closed down while we were in the bathroom.  After the boys got done, we thought we would check out Honey I shrunk the kids playground, but it was closed. 

Hollywood Studios was a hard one to plan for because of it being more shows and having to know the schedule of those.  I felt like we did a lot of hurrying to just wait or things not even happening at all.  But the boys loved it.  Like loved, loved, loved it.  So, I think we would go back, but with a better plan after having been there once.