We had an amazing time on our trip to Disney World. I love writing about our travels but I am getting a bit exhausted by it. I’m going to finish up my Disney posts (at least for now) with a few slideshows from our visits to the parks (only look at one at a time or you’ll go cross-eyed! I’m also including a little blurb about our favorite rides/parts of each park.
Magic Kingdom – I really thought Magic Kingdom would be the best park for Evan but I was wrong. We started off on the wrong foot by going on the Stitch ride and Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Both scared the bejeebus out of Evan so he HATED Disney for the first day. Thankfully we turned it around after that.
Evan’s favorite things at Magic Kingdom: Buzz Lightyear ride, Monster’s Inc Laugh Floor, Tom Sawyer’s Island, Ellen’s Energy Adventure and Splash Mountain.
Will & Nicole’s Favorite Things: Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear and Splash Mountain
My favorite things: Buzz Lightyear, Splash Mountain, Small World, and Monsters Inc Laugh Flo
A mix of Woody & Buzz
Take me to your leader!
More Ballons
Bye bye Disney. :(
Main street is packed even when it's raining.
Balloons!
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The fam in front of the castle
Evan is shooting Zurg with his new gun.
In line for the Buzz Lightyear Game....Evan's favorite!
Evan and I enjoying treats from The Merchant of Venus
Evan and I loved the Monsters, Inc Laugh Floor
Will and Evan protecting the fort!
And guns (mommy not thrilled...Evan thrilled)
There was even a fort on Tom Sawyer's Island
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Even Will thought it was pretty cool.
The barrel bridge on Tom Sawyer's Island
Riding the raft to Tom Sawyer's Island
Epcot – I never expected Evan to like Epcot because I thought he would be bored. Instead, he enjoyed it a lot. Epcot has a Kidcot activity set up where you can go around to all the countries and get stamps on a bear puppet. Evan and I did that and he really enjoyed it.
Evan’s favorite things at Epcot: Soarin’, Test Track,
Will & Nicole’s Favorite Things: Soarin’, Test Track,
My favorite things: Soarin‘, the World Showcase, the fireworks
Testing out new Disney video games
Cooling off under the misters
Posing
![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6911024493_661364a53d.jpg "The "Giant Golfball"")
The "Giant Golfball"
Me and Evan riding the boat in Mexico
China Pavilion
China Pavilion...so pretty
Buddha
Waiting on Turtle Talk with Crush to start
Watching the band at Biergarten in Epcot Germany
A beautiful day at Epcot
Digging for Dinosaur fossils
The China Pavilion
In Germany...it's almost our last name.
Italian Pavilion
Italian Pavilion
China Pavilion
Norway Pavilion
A tree of Fez.
That camel has a fez too!
Animal Kingdom - Evan LOVED Animal Kingdom! Like Epcot, Animal Kingdom has a kid focused “scavenger hunt” type thing where they do different activities in exchange for a stamp. Get all 6 stamps & you get a special Rafiki stamp. Evan ate that up!
Evan’s favorite things at Animal Kingdom: Getting the activity stamps, digging for dino fossils in Dino World, riding the flying dinosaur ride, the parade, the safari.
Will & Nicole’s Favorite Things: Expedition Everest (I think they rode it 4 or 5 times), the safari, the parade
My favorite things: The safari, the parade, Breakfast at Tusker House with the characters.
...and me too!
Nicole gets in on the action....
Hula hoop fun
Learning about how to figure out an animal from it's footprints and poo.
Learning about how to figure out an animal from it's footprints and poo.
The cichlid and hippo pool
Learning about turtles
Hanging out in the giant bamboo
The Tree of Life
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Animal Kingdom Parade
Animal Kingdom Parade
Animal Kingdom Parade
Animal Kingdom Parade
Animal Kingdom Parade
Me & Nicole waiting for the parade to start
Cute dino park
Riding the dino ride.
Learning about dinosaur bones
The train!
Hollywood Studios - Another dark horse in the popularity contest that Evan loved. I got quite annoyed with Hollywood Studios as it is MUCH smaller and MUCH more crowded. We arrived at 10:30 and all the FastPasses for the day were already gone for the Toy Story ride and the wait was over 2 hours long. NOT cool!
Evan’s Favorite Things at Hollywood Studios: The “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” play area ( I couldn’t get him out of there…he LOVED it!)
Will & Nicole’s Favorite Things: The Rocking Rollercoaster (which was closed the whole time we were there…bummer) and Tower of Terror
Lightening McQueen!
The Giant Bee
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One giant paperclip
Fern fronds
Climbing up the spider web
With Evan for size comparison
Giant Play-Doh canister. It even puffs out Play-doh scented air
Evan, Nicole and Will in front of Mickey's Sorcerer Hat
Riding on the giant ant
Evan riding a giant ant in the Honey, I Shrank the Kids play area.
Sliding down the film slide (tho Evan thought it was a battery)
Sliding down the film slide (tho Evan thought it was a battery)
Hanging out with the giant bee!
Evan in the giant web in the Honey, I shrunk the kids play area!
Downtown Disney - More of a shopping and eating destination than a “doing” destination.
Evan loved building Mr. Potato Heads in the Toy Store
Mr. Potato Head has got Nicole!
Posing with the tater
The Seven Dwarves made out of Lego
Lego Sea Monster
Buzz and Woody Lego sculpture
Fantasia Gardens Mini Golf – I never knew this even existed until we passed it driving to the parks. It was Dewey’s idea to go play on our last day and we all had a BLAST. We highly recommend it!
![](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6911473249_6b894bdf48.jpg "Evan said golfing was "So much fun!"")
Evan said golfing was "So much fun!"
The last hole...when your ball goes in a stream of water shoots up!
Nicole lost a ball on this hole
Nicole takes a swing....
Dancing Hippo
And another dancing hippo
There was even a cave!
You have to hit the hole when the tiny mushroom is up!
Even Evan got in on the fun.
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Looks like so much fun! Makes me want to take Grady! We went to Disneyland when I was 11 and my sis and I cried! on the space mountain ride! Totally bawled with fear!
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I would bawl with fear if I got on there today. You will notice that my “favorites” never included roller coasters. You could NOT make me get on one. No thank you!
I love Epcot too! That was always my favourite park!
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