Sunday, November 8, 2009

Catching up: October 2009 - Our Trip to Disney

Okay, I've been a bad blogger lately. I'm going to try to catch up on the last 9 months in just a few posts....
October 2009, we went to Florida for Travis' sister's college graduation. We thought that would be a great excuse for Olivia's first trip to Disney! She had a ball!

Before we got there, she kept telling us she REALLY wanted to meet Pluto. And guess who was just inside the gates....yup, Pluto! She was a little scared at first, but after seeing a few more giant Disney characters, she warmed right up!Olivia LOVED riding the tea cups!

One of our "MUST DOs" for the trip, was to see the Disney Fairies. As most of you know, Olivia LOVES Tinkerbell and her friends. She was pretty excited to see them. Luckily we were there in "off-season" so we only waited in line for about 40 minutes to see the fairies!


Liv with Tink. It was like watching her meet rock stars! She was starstruck!


Liv got to have a pic with the whole gang. For some reason once we were in the room to meet the fairies, they didn't let anyone else in behind us. So, Liv got them all to herself! They really fussed over her, and made her feel so special!
After meeting the fairies, we realized that the line for the princesses was really short, so we hopped in line, and with only a 15 minute wait, we got to meet the princesses too!




We told Liv when we got there, that she could get one pair of mouse ears. Any pair she wanted (they had at least 20 different kinds). Olivia picked out the princess mouse ears! She LOVED them! You can also tell that she LOVED all the stores with so many stuffed animals! She really wanted a Pluto!

Riding "It's a Small World After All". I thought this was somewhat creepy....but the kids liked it!


Liv with Naples Nana and Brooke!


Liv fell asleep just before we got to our lunch reservations, which was a good thing. She got in a good hour of rest, which really helped make her afternoon a great one!


Liv was so happy when she got to meet Eeyore! He's a favorite!

Liv was just giddy with excitement about Pooh and Friends!

And the man of the hour....

She really liked Tigger too!




Olivia even got pixie dust sprinkled on her at one of the stores! She LOVED it!


Sitting in one of the stores with a bunch of Eeyores! She wanted them all!

Riding the Dumbo ride for a 2nd time!


Liv and Brooke posing on the dumbo!


The castle at night was pretty amazing!

Waiting for the fireworks. Olivia showing off her new bracelet!

Watching fireworks with her daddy!

Tink flying overhead!


You can just see how cool she thought that was!


Leaving the park!

She fell asleep before we even got to the car! I had more fun that I even expected! I think that watching Olivia get so excited about all things Disney, was pretty amazing! I now know why they call this the most magical place on earth!

Dinner in the condo the next night. We stayed in and watched the Tigers!

Liv enjoyed watching her movies on the portable player!

And she would fall asleep watching the movies! So cute!


The next day we spent time at Downtown Disney. We had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe.





She was making silly faces!
And she was a little scared of the noises from all the animals around!

Keeping an ever watchful eye!

Silly with Daddy!

We then found a fountain that kids were running through. Since I had a change of clothes for Olivia with us, and it was about 99 degrees out, I figured she might enjoy it.


She thought it was so funny when the water would jump up!



Then we found a dalmatian and she was so excited, she had to have a picture!

More of Pooh and friends!


And she rode the carousel with Daddy!

Eventually she tuckered out!

Disney was fun. But I think Olivia really enjoyed hanging out with her Aunt Nichole! She doesn't get to see her very often, but she warms RIGHT up to her. When they picked us up at the airport, Liv went RIGHT to her! She LOVES her!


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