The Happiest Place on Earth?

We are at Disney World.  It's possible we lost our minds when we decided this would be a good idea.  We have lots of reasons for doing it now with two two year olds and a 7 month old, but it's not easy.  Today it was proven that we cannot manage a bus ride with three small children and two strollers without the help of strangers.  That was humbling.  Because I don't know whether I'll remember to come back and write about each day we were here I thought I would do a general overview for myself and then if I forget to write more in detail later, at least I'll have this.

We arrived Sunday night and were up late and then had to get up early.  But before we went to our room for the night we took the boys to see the Mickey Mouse statue in the lobby of the resort.  As soon as Luke spotted him across the lobby he started running toward Mickey saying, "Mickey Mouse, I see you!" over and over.  It was the cutest thing.  He hugged him and we got some pictures of the boys with him and then a nice couple offered to take a family picture. 

Monday morning we had reservations to have breakfast at the Crystal Palace with Pooh and friends.  The boys were a little shy at first, but each time the next character came by they warmed up a little.  That was a lot of fun for me too, to see them so excited to see these characters they've seen on tv and movies.  It was good food too.  We did the Peter Pan ride, the Pooh ride and the Dumbo ride on Monday morning.  Then we headed back to the hotel for lunch and naps.  In the afternoon we did a train ride and the big boys and Glen did the Buzz Lightyear ride while Josiah napped in the stroller.  When they finished that ride the parade was in full swing between where we were and where we needed to go, so we put the big boys on our shoulders so they could see the floats.  They liked it a lot more than we expected them to.  The Pete's Dragon float was my favorite.  Then we fought the crowds to get to the monorail to get back to our resort.  We just happened to be able to see the fireworks from the Polynesian Resort where we got off the monorail, so that was fun for the boys.  Sunday night we could hear the fireworks from our room and Luke refused to look out the window at them.  Monday night he really liked them.

Today we went to animal kingdom.  IT was kind of disappointing.  It felt like everything was going wrong to get there.  I'll have to write more about that later.  Overall it was kind of a frustrating day, but we did have moments of fun.