Thursday, April 11, 2013

Spring Break 2013: Disney Vacation

This was the BEST family vacation we could ask for!  We drove our RV to Orlando for Spring Break and stayed at the Disney Fort Wilderness Campground for a week.  It's right next to Magic Kingdom and comes with all the Disney magic to make for a fabulous experience. We took our bikes and enjoyed the huge property with paved trails, a beach, an awesome pool, restaurants, playground, and plenty of organized activities for the kids.  To top it all off they have a campfire every night with entertainment and special appearances by Chip and Dale followed by a movie on a huge outdoor movie screen. We LOVED this resort and would recommend it to everyone!!
 
We also had reservations for Mickey's Backyard BBQ located right at the campground.  It included dinner,  a live band, and dancing/games with Mickey, Minnie, Chip, Dale, and Goofy. We had so much fun!  We also visited Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and of course Downtown Disney.
This is at Mickey's Backyard BBQ, Max's first experience with characters.


 
This was Max's face the first time he laid eyes on Mickey :)
 
Hugs for Goofy
Despite the fact that it was 83 degrees, Max insisted on wearing jeans!
 
Hugs and high fives for Mickey on the dance floor
 
B giving Mickey some skin
 
Lightning McQueen and Mater at Hollywood Studios
 
Monsters, Inc: Sully and Mike Wizowski
 
Soldier from Toy Story

 
Lightning McQueen made an appearance in the stunt show we watched
 
Watching some college basketball in the motor home
 
Mickey Blake
 
Max was so happy to be outside riding his bike.  They went round and round! 
 
Mickey Bryce
 
 Mickey's backyard BBQ family pic
 
Our cute boys

Blake and Bryce were lucky enough to be a part of the Star Wars Jedi Training show at Hollywood Studios.  They learned how to be a Jedi and how to fend off Darth Vader and the dark side.
This is Blake
 
This one is Bryce

 
Max loves his little stuffed stitch he actually swiped from Blake's room a year ago.  Stitch and his blue bear go everywhere with him. It was so fun for him to see "real" Stitch :)  He showed real Stitch his little stuffed one and the character was playing around with it and had the boys laughing. Very cool!
 
Handy Manny had fun with Bryce and Max (Blake was WAY too cool for this character).  He had them posing like Buzz and Woody and they were giggling like crazy.
 
Family FAVE: Buzz and Woody

 
Love this pic of our boys in Downtown Disney.  We have pictures of Blake and Bryce when they were very young and it is really cool to do a side by side comparison.
 
Max was one excited little boy the entire trip.  He had super cool themed shirts to wear everyday and played it up as much as possible.  It was heartwarming to see his sheer joy over everything.  Seriously worth every penny!
 
Hot stuff at the pool!  The pool was HUGE, had a cool water slide, there was a separate little kid area with small water slides, zero entry, and slash pad type things, and also a wading pool for little ones. 
 
One of the pool side activities was over sized Jenga.  They also had dunk tanks, trivia, hot potato with water balloons, etc.
 
One night before heading to dinner
 
Disney thinks of everything!  While we waiting for our table there were hula hoops, ring toss, checkers, etc. to keep the kids entertained.  AND there was a window to the bar where you could purchase beverages while you wait.
 

 
One of Max's favorite things at Magic Kingdom was the race cars.  Every ride he went on he would get off, raise his hands and say, "That was AMAZING"

 
Gotta love the castle and the show
 
I had to throw our little mouse-ka-teers in jail with Zerg ;)
 
One pic of Mom and Dad 
 
Loving every ride!
 
Super fun DJ and more dancing with the characters at Magic Kingdom.
It was kinda funny, Chip wanted to dance with Max and I the entire time. Stitch, however, would start to dance with Max then would see me and walked away.  This happened several times.  Not sure what I did to make Stitch not like me??!!
The boys were so well behaved, very appreciative of every single thing, and Tim and I were in love with the entire experience. Many memories that will stay with us forever.

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