Third time's a charm! I can not believe this is our THIRD year in a row to get to go to Disney World!!! But, the ASCP (American Society of Consultant Pharmacists) had their annual meeting at the Swan/Dolphin Resort at Disney World in May, so we loaded up! I actually got a ton of CE this trip and even completed the special class that allowed me to get my consultant pharmacist license! I may never use it, but I have other consultant pharmacists that work for me and I really wanted to understand more of what they do (or are supposed to be doing! ;). It was a very informative seminar and I really got a lot out of it! Plus, I got to take the girls back to Disney and we had a BLAST!! Emma, who is only 5 and been to Disney 3 times, thinks this is our anual vacation! I may be in trouble! (But I have to admit, I love it just as much as them! And if you need a Disney tour guide, I'm your woman!) We drove this time, which was not the most fun part of our trip, but thanks to LoLo and PaPa, we made it in pretty good time!
Day 1: Magic Kingdom (and we basically spent all day in the newly opened Fantasyland!!)
We were not on the monorail this time, but it was not bad at all catching the bus to the parks! (But for those of you with strollers, I highly suggest somewhere on the monorail!!)
Madi was EXSTATIC to meet Minnie!! She LOVES Minnie! She kept calling her and waving and blowing kisses around the other kids in line! Priceless!
Both girls loved meeting the characters this year! I was so happy to FINALLY get some cute pictures of them with the characters!
PaPa liked Daisy too!
Minnie Mouse!!! (I also had a hidden agenda...Madi is having a Minnie Mouse birthday party in July, and I wanted a cute picture of her and Minnie for the invitations!)
Time to ride Dumbo!
The Goofy roller coaster! Emma loved this one last year (and this year too!)!
Madi even got to ride (mainly because her bow on top of her head let her squeeze by the height requirement!) She LOVED it! She's definitely going to be my little dare-devil!
Emma and Madi always love the carousel!
Cooling off with some ice cream!
Madi HAD to get this little Pooh bear! She was NOT going to leave the store without him!
Part of the new Fantasyland includes a new "Under the Sea" ride and "Ariel's Grotto" where you get to meet Ariel! It was fantastic and Emma LOVED it!
Madi watching the parade!
Emma and PaPa love the race cars!
Buzz Lightyear ride!
Astro Orbiter!
You can't really tell, but Madi got to ride this again this year too! (Even though it goes way to high and way too fast!)
PaPa and I got to ride Space Mountain! I had not ridden it since I was a senior in highschool and it was even better than I remembered!
We tried to watch the fireworks, but Madi HATED them! Needless to say, we left early with her screaming!
Day 2: Magic Kingdom (Again!)
Emma loved meeting Ariel so much, that she decided to dress up as the Little Mermaid and see her again! (She had saved enough money since last year to buy her anything she wanted...and that was the mermaid costume!)
My Little Mermaid!
Madi's favorite this year was "It's a Small World"...which was also her favorite last year! ;) I love these two pictures of her! It shows her excitement and fascination with everything she saw! I was so happy she enjoyed Disney World so much this year!!
Both girls also like watching the shows and parades! I recorded the "Dreams Come True" show on my phone and Madi still watches it just about everyday!
Backstage with Mickey Mouse!
Riding Aladin's Magic Carpert!
I talked Emma into riding Thunder Mountain!! I was kind of nervous that if she didn't like it, it would make her not want to ride any roller coasters in the future, but to my surprise and excitement, she LOVED it! She held her hands up and laughed and screamed the entire ride!
Day 3: Chillin' at the resort!
I had to go to class later this afternoon, so we hung out at the pool (I had about 1 hour) and then the girls and LoLo and PaPa went to the room to nap! The Dolphin Resort had 6 awesome pools, complete with a kiddie pool and water slides!
Madi really liked the kiddie pool!
And so did Emma!
Day 4: Epcot (PaPa's favorite!)
We had our first ever character dinner at Chip and Dale's Harvest Restaurant at Epcot! It was Fabulous! You sat in booths that actually rotated (very slowly) around. The waiter brought an entire buffet to our table and we could have as much as we wanted! And, the characters took turns coming to us! Definitely suggest it to anyone going to Epcot!
Chip and Dale!
Madi kept calling them "rabbits!"
Mickey was there too!
Pluto!
Madi had actually gotten sick by this time (terrible cough, fever, sneezing). I had it earlier in the week too. So, even though she kept calling "dog" she was not very excited when Pluto made his way to our table!
Day 5: We went back to Epcot for a couple of hours on Saturday after my conference ended at noon. It was HOT!!!
Emma and Madi played on the playground while I ran around trying to get fast passes!
Since the fast passes didn't work out this time, PaPa went to stand in line to ride that super fast car ride while LoLo, me and the girls waited in line (for like an hour) to meet Mickey, Pluto, and Minnie. It wasn't too bad, because it was inside and like I said earlier...it was HOT outside!
Don't you just love her face? Can you tell how much she loved meeting Minnie?!
We also got to meet Goofy!
And Daisy!
And Chip and Dale!
And Donald!
We got signatures from all 5 of the main characters! Emma was very excited to get all of them to sign her book! Madi kept pointing to where they were supposed to sign! Too Cute!
This was our last photo of the trip! This was a fountain outside of our hotel! We had such a GREAT trip! Who knows?? Maybe we can go back next year too! ;)
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