Day four brought another split in our party. The guys took the older kids to Universal Studios while Kristen and I stayed with the younger ones and swam at the hotel.
Patrick didn’t mind playing the arcade.
A little sword fighting with Jude on the football field.
When Jude saw this, he said, “I like that picture. I like how my cheeks are red. They look good.” 🙂
After the first two days of going nonstop, the kids really just wanted to swim at the hotel pool. Shannon said he could use a little relaxation as well, so we decided to rearrange schedules and the families went separate ways for the morning. The McMahon family opted to relax at the hotel, while the Pritts family went ahead to Animal Kingdom. Â We had dinner reservations at Epcot, so we agreed to meet up there for the afternoon.
When we got to Epcot, the boys wanted to do Test Track again.
These dinner reservations were for adults only! So we took quick boat ride to drop the kids off at the activity center.
And we went to Canada to eat!
After dinner, we walked a couple of countries and did some shopping.  I kept envisioning the kids miserable and waiting anxiously for us.  Turns out, they had fun and everyone ended the evening in great moods. 🙂
Day 2 Was Magic Kingdom.  This was a really crowded place! But we did manage to get some decent shots of us all in front of Cinderella’s castle. 🙂
Once in the park, Daddy and Kristen needed some Starbucks, so we waited. And that’s when the grumpies arrived for Patrick.
My prince and me
For dinner, the girls had reservations for dinner with Cinderella at her castle!!! So while we went to dinner with princesses, the guys went to the beer garden….with the boys….
Then we met up for a late night couple of rounds of Space Mountain!
The much anticipated trip arrived! We decided to save a little cash and drive it instead of fly…I wasn’t sure how that would go, but the way down wasn’t too bad. We stopped after 12 hours at a hotel for a quick sleep, then were up early Sunday morning to meet up with the Pritts at Disney! Patrick and I were the first ready.
If you ask Mac his ‘dream’ place to go or see, he’ll tell you Florida. So I was so super excited to be able to take him there! I made the family stop at the state line for our first photo op of the vacation.
When we arrived, we were super excited to find our room was in the baseball section of the resort.
After a few issues with rooms, we finally settled in then headed to Epcot!
First up was a ride I knew the boys would love. In Test Track they got to design their own race car, then race them! It didn’t hurt that there were real cars on display at the end of the ride. It took awhile to get them out of there.
Designing their car
Dinner each evening was fun. We made reservations at a different park each evening. The first night, Coral Reef. We dined next to huge fish tanks with sharks, huge sea turtles and manta rays.
We ended our first day in true Disney style…with great fireworks.
There’s no way to share all of our pics on this post. It would never load for you! So I’ve put them in an album and walked you through them with captions.
Mac went with a friend to his first Cubs game. While it was hard for me let him experience this without me, he was too excited to say no. And who am I kidding? I only make it to Wrigley once every 5-10 years. His friend’s mom was gracious enough to send me texts throughout the day. 🙂
