Florida Day 7 - Febuary 7, 2011

Monday was our last day at the parks.  Our family went to Hollywood studios, John and Caroline went to the Harry Potter World thing, and Greg and Gwen went to Animal Kingdom. Hollywood studios doesn't have a lot of rides, but we went to a few shows and other things that were WAY fun.  

  We got our picture taken by this HUGE hat:

Above: Minnie Mouse was so nice and loved out homemade autograph books.  

DONALD & DAISY

Daisy is probably my favorite Disney carictar.  She is so cute!!!

My mom took Hannah and Trevor over to the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" play ground.  

Those Mushroom"s are HUGE!!!:

Going down the slide:

Trevor liked this big truck:

While Mom took Hannah and Trevor to the playground me, my dad, Kyle and Kaitlyn went to go on Tower of Terror and Rock'n Roller Coaster.  I personally didn't like Tower of Terror; it made me sick, but Dad and Kyle LOVED it.  

Standing outside Tower of Terror:

Rock'n Roller Coaster was my favorite! You go upside down and allaround and it is AWESOME!!!

We went to a little stunt show where they show you how movies with car stunts are made.  

We even got to see Kirby:

The humidity in Florida made it really hard to keep our hair looking good and the wind didn't help much, so that's why our hair is a mess in this picture:

There was a big show going on and Trevor just sat there like nothing was happening:

Trevor kept begging and begging for a lolly pop, finally mom gave in and got us all one:

Cute Hannah:

We got a picture by Bill Cosby.  For those of you that don't know our family has watched each of the Cosby shows several times. 

Florida Days 5&6 - Febuary 5&6, 2011

WOW!!! OK, so it's been a month since we went to Florida and I still haven't finished blogging about it. Well, I'm going to try and finish up now.
On Saturday and Sunday we didn't go to any of the parks, because my mom and dad had meetings.  Instead, we had a fun time hanging out with Heather.  We went swimming in the morning, and then we went back and got ready for my dad's PAL graduation. 
At the graduation they read a short thing about each person.  They said how many kids each of them had; most people had two to three kids.  So when they got to Dad they just kept naming and everyone was laughing. 
We got a family picture taken afterward:

After the graduation we went swimming again; this time with my mom and dad.
There was a slide at the pool and Kyle went down it 50 times!!! Half of them where in about 20 minuets.
Dad going down the slide:

Kaitlyn and Hannah hanging out in the pool:

After swimming for our second time we hurried back to the room to shower and get ready for dinner with my dad's PAL class.  We ate at the ESPN center, and there was a T. V. for every game that was on that night.  It was fun to meet people from Dad's PAL class, and I'm sad we won't ever see them again (probably).  

Sunday morning in the car Heather, Abbey, Gracie, Me and Kaitlyn had a little devotional.  We were each assigned a topic and then we shared something about it.  That was pretty much the only "church" thing we did.  

We weren't planning on going swimming but after begging and begging we finally convinced Hez to let us go!  We had a BLAST at the pool that day, since we had the whole pool to ourselve's, pretty much.  Kyle went down the slide like 40 times (i think), and Abbey and I went with him most of the time.  By the end that slide just made me sick.  

Sunday night we went down to play on the nice little beach they had right outside our room.  

Hannah and Trevor in the hammock:

Hannah, Kaitlyn, and Gracie doing Handstands:

Above: our lovely resort.
Below: Abbey, Kyle, Trevor and me built a sand castle:

Trevor's Space Mountain Experience

I forgot this in my last post but this story deserves a special post.  The first time we went on space mountain Trevor was crying and the person at the gate told my mom that if he could settle down he could go but if he kept crying he couldn't so she took him down to the end to wait for us.  When they got down there Trevor said to my mom, "That was my last chance to go on that ride!"  My mom told him that ya it probably would.  Trevor was really mad and the rest of the day he just wanted to go on Space Mountain.  So when my dad came latter that day we took Trevor on it.  He was really excited.  Then just as we got almost to the front of the line Trevor had to go to the bathroom.  I told him I would take him down to the bathroom, but then he wouldn't get to go on the ride.  He was determined to go on the ride.  He was brave and went on the ride.  I can't say that he loved it because when we asked him how it was he said he didn't like it.  But he went on the ride. 

Florida Day 2 - Febuary 4, 2011

Our second day at the parks we went to Magic Kingdom. 

My dad had meetings during the day but he joined us in the evening. 

We got our picture taken by the front gates:

(as you can probably tell Kyle didn't really want to have his picture taken)

Kaitlyn and Gracie:

Ummm... I'm not really shore what this ride was called, but it's where you get to drive your own little car.  You are on a little track so you don't crash, and Trevor LOVED it. 

Hannah and Hilary waiting to go on the Buzz Lightyear ride:

Me and Trevor standing by Buzz:

Me and Hannah were the only ones who wanted to be in this picture:

In front of the Cinderella castle:

At Magic Kingdom There are three big roller coasters; Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain, and Splash Mountain.   Space Mountain is so dark you can't even see anything.  It made me sick but I still went on it 4 times.  Thunder Mountain was AWESOME!!!! You can actually see! I think that's what made it WAY better than Space Mountain.  And lastly, splash mountain, it's pretty boring for the first part, but at then end it drops you really fast!!!
Trevor and Hez on Thunder Mountain:

Outside Thunder Mountain:

My mom took Trevor, Hannah, Hilary, and Carter over to see the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, while the others went over to go on the roller coasters again. 

Walking up:

We went and saw this 3-D movie thing and it was AWESOME!!!!
Things were popping out at you and everyone loved it!

Carter, Hannah and Trevor on the Carousel:

Riding the tea cups:

Every one but me, my mom, Hannah, and Trevor went to go ride the roller coasters one last time but we decided  to go on "It's a Small World"

After dinner my mom took Trevor Hannah and Carter on Dumbo,since Trevor had been begging and begging to go on it.  While they were up in the air the fireworks started and the had a perfect view:

 Watching the fire works:

So we had an awesome day at the Magic Kingdom, but we were all very tired and enjoyed sleeping in the next morning. 

Florida Day One - Febuary 3, 2011

Thursday was our first day at the parks.  We went to EPCOT!!! When we first got there my mom still had to buy the tickets.  Her credit card wouldn't let her spend that much money at one time and so we had to call the bank.  Florida is two hours ahead and the bank in Lewiston wasn't open.  Eventually we were able to get the tickets, but it was a long wait. 

Hannah and Trevor waiting for the tickets: 

Hannah and Trevor with Minnie:

MICKY!!!:

Above:This is the best ride EVER!!!! It feels like you are "Sorin" above California.  A golf ball comes really close to your head, when you are above the orange fields you actually smell the oranges, and at the end big fireworks go off.  It's the best!!!

Outside Test Track:

Heather, Hannah, and Hilary eating lunch:

Kaitlyn and Gracie:

 Chip & Dale:

We went and watched this WAY cool interactive movie type thing with Crush from Finding Nemo. 

Crush asked some questions and he even talked to Carter (our cousin)!
After we talked to Crush, we got our picture taken inside this big shark:

Kyle and one of the sharks:

All of the kids:

There was a little boat ride where you could learn about all the different plant, and animals and their environment.  Dad and Trevor had already gone an the ride.  We were going past some plants I had never seen or heard of and Trevor points to one of them and told me its name.  I read the sign that said what it was and he was right!!!

Test Track is like you're actually going through all the tests cars have to got through.  you test the brakes, the tires, and at the end it takes you outside and you go really fast around in a circle.  Trevor really wanted to go, and after we got off, he said "That was a boringest ride ever!"

Waiting outside Test Track:

The "Epcot Ball"

At Epcot you can go around and see a whole bunch of countries, it was really cool, but we didn't spend much time there. 
We had to get a picture in Canada for grandpa Hall:

This telephone booth was AWESOME!!!

Marry Poppins was supper nice.  She had us all stand in a circle around her and tell her our favorite part of Epcot. 

In Norway they had a little viking ride that was actually fun.  At the end it dropped you down, not too fast, not to far, not even scary, and Hannah and Trevor were both terrified. 

After the ride we tried on viking hats:

In Mexico there was another boat ride that was WAY boring and I almost fell asleep, but Hannah and Trevor didn't want to go on it because of the viking one.  They did end up going on the Mexico one in the end and LOVED it. 

The Fireworks where AMAZING!!!

It was well worth the wait, and having to stay up late!!!!