Our Disney World Trip

It finally happened. I have a quiet moment to myself. Doug and Tristan are at the "knight" museum (aka Frazier Museum) in Louisville tonight. So I have finally went through the Disney pics to put some on here and give our amazing fun filled account. So we drove 13 hours to Florida to our very cheap place to stay. Not that it was cheap looking or anything, just the price from the afvclub is really cheap. The place was decent, full kitchen, 1 bedroom, a pull out couch for Tristan, and the best part, a jacuzzi tub. Tristan loved it. We went to Disney MGM on Monday, thinking it would be a lite day, and it was kind of. We went back to our place for dinner, and came back for the nighttime fireworks show. It was pretty cool. Tuesday we went to the Magic Kingdom. I loved it. We met Tigger and Pooh and Tristan and I had our pictures taken with them. We had a great time there. We rode all the rides we could. We stayed for the lights parade at night, which was ok but ok to skip too. But the fireworks were awesome. And then getting out of there was another story, so it was a very late night. Luckily we took Wednesday as a day off. We slept in, Tristan watched cartoons, I went shopping to all the touristy gift shops on the strip, Doug and Tristan went out on a paddle boat ride around the lake behind our hotel, we swam in the pool, and then went to the Medieval Times dinner show. The food there was surprisingly good. Of course by the time we got the food we were all starving, but still it was good. And the show was really cool too. Tristan loves all the knight stuff, so it was a fun night. Thursday we went to Sea World and fed the dolphins and sharks, and watched the shows, rode all the kiddie rides, it was a fun (although very hot and humid) day. The brochure I had said Sea World had a night-time fireworks show, which we were planning on staying for. Well one of the staff there was just standing around so I asked her about the fireworks. She told me they didn't do them during the winter. It's October and 95 degrees, lady you don't have winter here. But ok, so we got to go out for a better dinner that night. We went to Joe's Crab Shack that had a decent playground outside, so we sat on the "big deck" right by it so Tristan could play. Friday we went to the Animal Kingdom. It was pretty cool, although not as many rides as the other places. We did the safari, saw the shows, did the dinosaur ride (which Tristan says is his favorite but he would only do it once). Doug and I took turns riding the new roller coaster, Everest. Tristan was an inch to short for it. But it was a nice kind of lite easy day for our last day. We drove back on Saturday so we all had a recovery day before back to work and school. Although work for Doug on Monday was driving back to Ft. Stewart, Georgia. At least he knew the way, having just been through Atlanta. He he he. Um, so we took like 100-150 pictures a day, so if you think that there are a lot here, your wrong. There's more...many many more.

New Sport

Ok before I sort through the like 500 pictures from Disney World and post about it, I'm going to write about a new sport Tristan invented. It's called toothbrush sword fighting. Seriously that is the only way I can think of for him to get a HUGE glob of toothpaste on the bathroom wall, behind him, above his head, above the towel rack even. I went into the bathroom and saw the blue toothpaste up there and thought "What the ..., how the...., eww." So much for letting him brush his teeth alone. Maybe the new spider man toothbrush had something to do with it. It is so kind of sad when he gets all excited over a new toothbrush. You'd think he never gets anything new. Of course that's not the case (see previous posts). But here we are at Wal-Mart again, and he sees the spider man toothbrush and just goes nuts. "Can I have a new toothbrush, pleeeeeease? Oh yeah, new toothbrush, new toothbrush!" It's like some poor little orphan, "Can I have some more porridge please?" Anyway, I'll get to the Disney stuff soon. Just as soon as I have a quiet moment. Ya, like that's going to happen.

Famous last words

Tristan was standing on the couch, with an evil look on his face. In front of him was his Diego pop up jungle hut, with no roof. I'm thinking he's going to try and jump down through the top. I said "what are you doing?" And here's the famous last words, he said "hehe, watch this." He's said it lots of times before and I'm sure I'll hear it a lot more. He is little mister adventure. Anything dangerous or scary, he wants to do it. And the bigger he gets, I'm sure the worse it will get. He's already part monkey I swear. Oh but all he did was jump, he didn't do what I thought he would and I didn't give him any more ideas. He has definitely not gotten that fear of heights thing yet. He'll jump from anything you'll let him or at least he'll act like it until I start yelling "NO, get down from there, you'll get hurt,...". And all this while he's coughing up a lung, running a fever, and cant' breath through his nose. Just think how adventurous he is when he's feeling good.