Sea World

The first theme park we hit was Sea World. The kids each had their own agenda for the park. Kinley wanted to see the animal show, Taylin wanted to see the whale and dolphin shows and Jaxon wanted to ride Journey to Atlantis. I am happy to say that we accomplished all of our objectives and so much more.

The Whale show was awesome as usual. Dave and I and the girls decided to sit towards the back of the splash zone. Can you guess where Jaxon sat?

If you guessed the front row, you are right. Here he is trying to dry his shoes.

Above: Journey to Atlantis

Home away from home

One of the highlights of this trip for me was the beautiful resort that we stayed at. It had several swimming pools, playgrounds, 2 bedrooms 2 baths and a stocked kitchen. I could have easily stayed for a month or longer. This is probably the nicest place I have ever stayed. If I didn't feel like we had to see everything, I could have spent most everyday laying out by the pool soaking up the sun.These are some not so great pictures from our screened in patio but I think it helps to give you an idea of how big this place is. This is a very small section of this huge resort and one of the many pools they had.

The happiest place on EARTH

The happiest place on Earth, or so the commercials tell me. The Magic Kingdom was great. The girls loved seeing all of the princesses and all of the kids loved Space Mountain.

Looking happy now. Some how I made it on the teacups not once but twice. I had to close my eyes tight each time and hope I didn't see my lunch again.

Oops this one didn't get rotated. We are inside the castle.

Night Show

Oops, I got a little out of order, oh well. The last night we were in Florida we went to the light parade and firework show, they were spectacular!

The Animal Kingdom and Planet Hollywood

The Animal Kingdom was our 3rd Theme Park and probably my least favorite. I only say this because we have passes to the zoo and a wild animal park here in Washington so we see a lot of animals on a regular basis, so seeing them here wasn't that exciting for me. The coolest thing we did here was get VIP seats to the Lion King production. Dave met some lady at the front of the park that set us up with backstage passes and front row seats to the Lion King show. The kids also got to participate in the pre-show and show. They were super excited to be involved and really got into it. My favorite part was probably the Tree of Life walking trail with all of the animals carved on the trail and into the tree. Jaxon and Dave did several fun rides together, yup you guessed it, I couldn't go on them.
That night we headed to downtown Disney, which I thought was much better then Disneyland's downtown Disney. There was a great atmosphere and we ate dinner at Planet Hollywood which was probably some of the best food of our whole trip.

Oh ya, I left out the bird show, that was one of Taylin's favorite parts.

One of our few pictures with the whole family.