Disney World - Islands of Adventure

We had our first family vacation where we all flew on a plane together at the end of April. We started early on Monday morning (4 am) and flew to Orlando FL. We got to spend time with Candices family and take some great family pictures.

We spent all day Tuesday and Wednesday at Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom which was great fun.

Michael loved the car driving ride, where we ended up going on it about 5 times.

I was trying to take pictures from the car infront of him by holding the camera behind my head and just pressing the button. Some actually came out.

Rachel was excited because she got to drive the car all by herself.

Megan still loves cats. This is the first time she's ever worn a hat ever, and she actually wore it most of the day.


The Buzz Lightyear ride was also a favorite. Michael loved anything with guns on it, and it was like a real live video game.

The kids finally got their crocs they've "always wanted" and then learned that the pins fall out if they run all over the park with them.


The roller coasters were really popular. Megan actually enjoyed riding on them. This was my favorite picture of the day. Megans look of pure worry as we are going down splash mountain.



The picture of the Vacation goes to the Jurassic park ride at Islands of Adventure though. I had been prepping Michael for this ride for over a month, telling him about the real dinosaurs and how one comes right by his face. Instead of preparing him for it, it actually ended up scaring him more. Michael was totally terrified by the end of the ride, and we caught it on film!!

Saddly, he didn't want to go on it again though... We got to spend alot of time in the Marvel Super Hero land visiting some of the X-men also.

Dinosaurs aren't so scary now!

Megan got to visit with the Cat in the Hat.

After the Cat in the Hat, they visited the Grinch, who stole Megans Cat in the Hat doll, so didn't want anything to do with Thing 1 and Thing 2 after that.

After 3 days in the parks we ended up staying at the hotel pool on the last day, where the kids all got sun burns and were ready to go home at that point. All in all it was one of our best vacations yet and hope to do it again soon.