This past week we went to visit Gregree and other family members in Orlando and to take the boys to Disney for the first time. They loved it.
Their favorite part of the trip was visiting Shamu at Sea World, where, despite Wyatt's better judgement and pleas to move away from the tank for fear of getting splashed, we got soaked by a vindictive orca whale. Luckily Wyatt, who took the brunt of the freezing salt water, recovered quickly. After initially screaming and crying and yelling at his parents for not listening to him, he decided the incident was actually hysterical and had a good laugh about it...the rest of the trip.
Highlights of the Magic Kingdom included the race cars which we stood in line for many times to ride again and again. They also loved the many parades and seeing all the Disney characters, especially "the real Mickey Mouse!" They loved the outdoor rides like the roller coaster in toon town, the jungle cruise and Aladdin's flying carpets. They also loved the classic Its a Small World. But, following Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh, Wyatt quickly picked up on the formula Disney uses for most of its rides which includes moments of happiness combined with something going terribly wrong and darkness followed by bliss. He was fed up with it and refused to ride any other indoor ride that involved "a dark scary cave" So, my personal favorites, Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain, were out of the question. Despite being relegated to only outside rides that didn't have dark scary caves, they had a blast!
We also visited Animal Kingdom and went for a safari ride.
All in all a great trip!
We settled in to a nice routine of hitting the park all morning and afternoon, leaving for an evening nap in the car and then swimming/hot tubbing and dinner at the house. Luckily the kids stayed on West Coast time so this was possible.
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