Florida Vacation - cont.

On our third day, we headed back to Disneyworld for our second day at the park. We started with the Magic Kingdom, where we had left off on Friday night. It was another hot day, but with fresh legs and a little rest, we were ready to go again! This is Ali, outside the Magic Kingdom.

Trisha's family heading towards the rides!

We were able to go to rides like 'Pirates of the Carribean' and 'Snow White's scary Adventure'. We loved the Mickey's 3-D adventure show (air conditioned - yay!) and Ali became a Pirate Princess with the addition of her new mouse ears hat!

Poor Grant couldn't take much more of the heat, so while the others visited the Princesses and Mickey and Minney...Gramma and Grant hung out in the air conditioned gift shop for a nap with his little dalmation! He was soooo tired!

Addi and Ali got to visit with Mickey and Minney Mouse in their house...and then it was time to get on the Monorail again and ride to Epcot Center. A little overcast sky and a bit of a breeze made it pretty comfortable that afternoon while we were checking out the cool rides.

We rode 'Mission Space' and 'Soarin' and some other fun things

while we were there in Epcot.

And they had a pretty neat little 'Nemo' ride in the huge

aquarium. Ali wanted to see what it was like being eaten by the sharks!

And while Brent, Danny and Ali were finishing up their last ride...the rest of us went over to a cool green lawn, away from the rest of the crowd and watched the firework display out over the lake in Epcot Center. It was a perfect night!
We were also able to drive out to the beach one of the days, and enjoy the sun and ocean breezes. Ali found a lot of shells...Grant and Addi just liked to play in the water and dig in the sand. Jake and Danny liked body surfing on the waves, until Danny thought he saw a shark...And then the fun in the water was over!

Our last day we spent at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure with Trisha and Danny. Tanessa stayed home to watch the kids and let us have a fun grown-up day with all the wild rides. We had a super full day, with one ride after another...it was sooo FUN! There were so many rides, I couldn't even begin to name them all, but it was a great day, cause we had purchased a Fast Pass, which let us go to the front of the line on every ride...so there was no waiting, just walk and ride, one right after another, and we ate lunch at the neatest little deli with croissant sandwiches and awesome cheesecake for dessert!