Disney...ALL DAY LONG

So on Thursday last week, we decided to spend ALL DAY at Disney to see how crazy we really are.

The morning started at 6:30am with Phylliese and I waking up and getting ourselves ready. Surprisingly the kids and Dave and Martha were ready to leave the house by 7:30. We went to Ponderosa for a breakfast buffet. I was not terribly impressed with it. But it worked as energy for the long day.

We arrived at Disney at 8:30am, 30-minutes before the gates were opened. Once they let the masses in we got to see Minnie and Mickey. Raiden and I were ready to head to straight to SPACE MOUNTAIN. After visiting with mice, we made our way to Tomorrowland. After riding Space Mountain, I took the Joyness so that Phylliese could ride. I took Joy to ride Buzz Lightyear. The whole time we were in TomorrowLand the wait times were 10-20 minutes each. That is AMAZING for Disney.




After putting up with the Lilo and Stitch ride (which was dumb...and smelly) and Joy riding Buzz Lightyear 5 times, I took the little ladies to meet the ever-popular Princesses. The lines for the Princesses were 3 times longer than the other lines. : So I spent an hour waiting in line with a 2 1/2 year old who wanted to go to sleep and an almost 6 year old who was excited and nervous at the same time.





I was quite happy to get to spend that time watching Joy go NUTS when she saw Cinderella. It was pretty funny. :)

I bought the girls hats after we left the Princess area. Then we rode "It's a Small World".

We then headed over to Epcot to have lunch with the Princesses. As I stated in the last post, Raiden got cozy with Sleeping Beauty. We also got to meet Belle, Ariel, Cinderella again, and Jasmine :)

Cont on next post.

Raiden and Sleeping Beauty...A Love Story

Ok. I will probably get in trouble for this post. Raiden made me promise not to put this on the blog. Sorry Buddy-Boy. :)

So during our marathon at Disney last Thursday, that will be in a post by itself, we attended a "Princess Lunch" at Epcot. The restaurant was in Norway. Weird huh? Anyway while we were eating a FANTASTIC meal, 5 of the Disney Princesses went from table to table for pictures, etc. We met Ariel at the door, she was in human form. She even combed her hair with a fork. :)

Anyway, while enjoying food from the buffet, we were pleasantly surprised by the appearance of Sleeping Beauty. However she was not there for us. She had her eyes on "her prince"...Raiden!















As you can see from Raiden's facial expressions, he was not giving her the time of day. I thought it was rather sad. But nonetheless funny. I will try to get the Disney 15 Hour Marathon Day blogged tomorrow. :)

Florida...Continued...

After dinner that night we went to a place that Phylliese has not stopped talking about since our visit 3 years ago to Orlando. That place would be called Friendly's. I designed my own sundae. It had 2 strawberry scoops, 1 chocolate scoop, and 2 forbidden chocolate scoops of ice cream with strawberries, hot fudge and oreo pieces. Check it out :)















Phylliese and Joy shared a Forbidden Fudge Brownie Sundae.













Raiden got attacked by his sundae. Here is the damage.














More later :)

Florida...The First Couple of Days

Well...an update. Shocking isn't it? In case you did not know, Sawyers Gone Wild went on the road to Orlando, Florida for a week! It was great!

We left the house at 4:30am on Saturday, August 5th. We almost did not make it to the airport because as I was loading babies into the van three police cars came up to our house!!! They informed me that a suspect was chased into the soccer fields behind our house. I grabbed the kids and waited 15 minutes or so before Phylliese and I ran into the car and left. I did not want anything stopping our trip.

The airport was not too busy. The kids were pretty wired that early in the morning. These pics show us on the first airplane.













We made it to Tampa without any issues. Then we got our rental car (a minivan of course) and made our way to Orlando. We stayed at the Vistana Resorts by Sheraton. Thanks to my mother and father-in-laws for the use of their time share and cooking breakfast every morning.

We swam on Saturday night. Went to church on Sunday morning. At a a seafood place called Shells for lunch. VERY GOOD seafood! (A side note...I have a hard time eating seafood in Oklahoma. The ocean is a little far from here.) After Phylliese and the kids napped, we swam again.

Monday we visited the Holy Land Experience. We got there just after lunch and wished we got there sooner. It was a great experience. They have a bible from the 1600s that has human blood on it from someone trying to spread God's word. Pretty amazing! We have other pictures from this visit. But they were taken by Raiden and he kept taking pictures of the model of Jeruselum. They are pretty blurry. :)