Disney 2009 - Day five

Our 5th day at Disney was Olivia's 5th birthday!  We started the day at downtown Disney where Olivia visited the Bibbity Bobbity boutique.  Olivia was picked to be in the front window of the store as she was transformed from Olivia to Jasmine the punk princess.  After downtown Disney we went back to our room for a nap before going to Chef Mickey for dinner.  At Chef Mickey we visited with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto and Goofy.  After dinner the kids got dressed up in their Halloween costumes - Olivia was Jasmine and Jack was Abu (the monkey from Alladin) and we went to the Magic Kingdom for the Mickey's not-so-scary Halloween Party.  It was amazing!  The park was transformed into a not-so-spooky wonderland!  They played spooky music throughout the park and there was fog coming from everywhere.  All the characters and cast members were dressed up in Halloween costumes.  The kids got to trick-or-treat at different stations around the park.  The Halloween parade was absolutely amazing!
We had a wonderful time and Olivia's birthday was absolutely amazing!  We got back to our room really late and got in bed, but then I realized that we didn't sing happy birthday to Olivia, so we got a cupcake, put a candle in it and sang - then we ate cake in bed...after brushing our teeth!  Dad wasn't too happy about it, but it was fun - Olivia and I just giggled :-)

When Olivia woke up, she had a present in her bed and we decorated the room with the leis we were given when we arrived at our resort.

Olivia was paraded through the store to the front windows.  The lady escorting her kept saying, "excuse us, there's a princess coming through" and Olivia just smiled and waved - it was sooo cute!

This is Olivia and her fairy god-mother in training

Punk Jasmine

Jack liked the lego dogs

Abu and Jasmine

Halloween parade

Halloween parade

Dinner with Pluto at Chef Mickey

Dinner with Goofy at Chef Mickey

Jack kissing Minnie at Chef Mickey

Dinner with Donald at Chef Mickey

Jack kissing Mickey at Chef Mickey

Goofy stopping to pose with Brian

Jack tried to pull off Pluto's whiskers

We found Anastasia wondering around looking for her sister and mother and her step-sister Cinderella

Abu and mini Abu

(we were on our way out of the park and we had already undressed Jack because he was so hot in his costume, but when I saw Abu, I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to get Jack's picture with him so I put Jack's costume back on him and we waited in line, only to find out that Abu was leaving and Jasmine and Alladin were coming - the cast member with Abu was kind enough to pull Abu aside and let us get a picture with him!)

The Genie was with Abu, but he didn't stop for a picture

The family got a picture with Jasmine and Alladin

This was Olivia's birthday cupCake that we ate in bed after brushing our teeth...and we giggled about it!

Disney 2009 - Day four

On our fourth day in Disney, we visited the Animal Kingdom.  Not being very fond of animals myself, I wasn't exactly looking forward to the visit to this park.  After visiting the park, I discovered that this was one of my favorites!

We started our day with a Safari ride

Jack really enjoyed riding on a big truck!

After the Safari Olivia got her face painted like Pocahontas

Brian found this man walking around playing music

We watched the Festival of the Lion King - this was one of the most amazing shows I have ever seen!

While Jack took a nap, Olivia found lots of characters

We also watched the 3D show It's Tough to be a Bug where we got poked by a bug and learned why a stink bug got his name-DISGUSTING!

The most amazing part of the day was the Finding Nemo Musical - this was THE best show I have ever seen, outside of any Broadway shows.  I was so amazed at the details in the stage presentation and props.

Brian started getting pretty sick and we didn't get to spend as much time in Animal Kingdom as we would have liked, but it was still one of our favorite parks in Disney!!

Disney 2009 - day three

On Tuesday we got up and headed to Disney's Hollywood Studios.  This was our first venture on a bus - we had been using the monorail which is super convenient for families with strollers.  I packed the stroller up and we headed to the bus stop.  We were less than thrilled to find out we had to fold up the stroller.  We had about 10 different small bags, water bottles, fans...I grabbed both kids and boarded the bus with as much stuff as I could carry while Brian wrestled with the stroller and the remaining items packed inside and out - it was a disaster and took about 5 minutes - everyone on the bus was less than thrilled having to wait on us!  After feeling VERY overwhelmed and disorganized, we arrived at Hollywood Studios - the kids were ready to have fun and Brian and I were ready to pull our hair out and go back home.  To add to it, Brian had misplaced his Disney card that had his park passes and dining plan on it, so we had to go to guest services and get a replacement before entering the park.  Thankfully, Disney has a way of transforming any mood and it didn't take too long and we were having a blast!

Olivia took a seat on Brian's shoulders for a good view of High School Musical performing.

Meeting JoJo and Goliath

Meeting Leo and Annie of the Little Einsteins

We saw the Mickey Mouse club house, Little Einsteins, Handy Manny and Pooh and friends on stage.

For lunch we went to Hollywood and Vine

Jack meeting Leo

Olivia posing with June, but Jack was not impressed!

These were three actors on the street doing a little skit while we waited for the block party to begin - they were absolutely hilarious!  We laughed our butts off as they started up their own on-the-road band.  They started getting on each others nerves and would make jabs at each other, then they would make-up, only to start fighting again over something silly.

The block party was absolutely fabulous!

Our favorite attraction at HS was the Toy Story Mania!

While in Hollywood Studios we also watched the Muppets 3D and the Voyage of Little Mermaid.