12M ~ October 2019

Happy Halloween!

12M ~ October 2019

RMS 8th grade band joined the CHS marching band at the football game tonight! David had a blast and is already looking forward to next year!

12M ~ October 2019

Shaun swimming his first 100 IM! So proud of him.

12M ~ October 2019

For our last morning in Disney, we headed straight to Hollywood Studios!  Epcot is closer, but we had spent a lot of time in that park and the boys wanted to ride the Rock 'N Roller Coaster and the Millennium Falcon again.

We also splurged on some treats - Star Wars churros for the boys and blue milk for me!

One last quick family picture leaving Hollywood Studios this afternoon and heading off to the airport. Such a fun trip! Now I need a vacation!

12M ~ October 2019

We got up early to take advantage of magic hours and now we can ride Pandora's Flight of Passage. twice without waiting 2 hours in line! They did a great job with the queue for this ride, something you miss when you use a Fastpass.  It was also still dark when we arrived and being able to see the cool affects on the pathways once you enter Pandora was another added bonus.

We used the rest of our fast passes, which included Flight of Passage, the safari and Expedition Everest.  We rode it when we went yesterday because the line was short (considering!) and so I almost bowed out of the second time, but the family convinced me & YIKES!

Once we finished our fast passes we headed to have some lunch and ride Dinosaur and Evan was excited to run into Pluto while wearing his Pluto shirt and hat!

After that we headed back to the resort so we could relax because we had a late dinner reservation at 'Ohana at the Polynesian Village Resort.  Before heading over to the Polynesian we spent some more time over at Epcot walking around and the boys were excited to ride Test Track one more time.  I was happy to get our family picture in front of the globe!

The dinner was great.  I loved the noodles and the wings, and I could have just had that and been happy.  I stuffed my face with so much food I barely had room to eat famous bread pudding - the whole reason this place was on my bucket list in the first place.

After dinner it was back to the resort and right to bed because we will be flying home in the afternoon, but not before we have one last morning at Hollywood Studios.  We are hoping to ride the Millennium Falcon one more time!

12M ~ October 2019

Another bucket list was being able to eat breakfast at the place that is right in our resort at Cape May Cafe!  I know all the tips will tell you breakfast isn't worth it, but this was a fun one and I would do it again!  The food was delicious - but I love a good breakfast buffet!

Who wouldn't love a mickey waffle!

Couldn't let the boys have all the fun!

After breakfast we headed over to Epcot for the morning and then headed over to spend some time at Animal Kingdom before heading back to Epcot to eat around the world at the Food and Wine Festival!

I was wearing my Baymax shirt - so obviously our first mission was to find Baymax for a photo op!

We hit the big globe and then headed to catch a bus over to Animal Kingdom, our goal was to spend some time doing some of the other lands so that when we returned in the morning we could focus on Pandora!

After some time at Animal Kingdom it was back to Epcot to enjoy the Food and Wine Festival and a couple more rides!  We stuff our faces with delicious food.

We ended the night by watching the new light show at Epcot and headed back to the resort to sleep because our goal was to get to Animal Kingdom early so we could attempt and ride Flight of Passage more than once!

12M ~ October 2019

Last time we did this trip we did not include a time at one of the water parks, much to the boys disappointment, so this year we made time for it.  We chose Typhoon Lagoon and the boys had a blast.  They spent a good amount of time after lunch swimming in the massive waves of the wave pool!

Another first for us was heading to Disney Springs, but it was close by and I thought it would be fun to have dinner there and explore.  The kids loved the lego store displays and I loved the Irish dancing and live music at Raglan Road!

Representing Concord with their Arnie's Place shirts in Disney Springs tonight! Raglan Road was so much fun. Live music and dancing and the food was delicious!

After we got back we took the kids down to pool to do some night swimming!

12M ~ October 2019

Even though we spent our night at the Magic Kingdom - it was our destination this morning as well!  They opened early for magic hours and I was hoping to take advantage of a less busy Main Street USA for pictures!

After the pictures we headed straight over to ride the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train again.  Our fast passes were for the Mountains (Space, Thunder & Splash).  After that we headed over to Space Mountain for our first fast pass of the day and then to our breakfast reservation at Be Our Guest.  Normally I would never bother with something like that (and I probably won't bother again), but I really wanted to try the Gray Stuff and this place books fast.  In fact, when dining reservations opened up for us, this place wasn't even available.  I only found a breakfast reservation after checking back frequently leading up to our trip.  The Gray Stuff was delicious and being inside the castle was cool, but this would not be high on my list if we go back.

Beasts Castle.

Because we had spent the night before at the Magic Kingdom, we had done most of what we had wanted to do, so we finished with our fast passes and headed back to the resort for some afternoon downtime before heading to Epcot for some fun and dinner in Italy at Via Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria.  Our waiter was so fun and we had a blast at this place!  We finished the night off with some Test Track and pictures with Mickey, Goofy and Minnie!

Twinsies!