Day 5: The Animal Kingdom

As soon as we enter a park for the day Cara rushes to get a map and then inspects it thoroughly to show us what we will doing for the day!


First thing on the agenda that morning was breakfast at the Tusker House with Donald and friends!
Meeting Daisy, who is dressed in her Safari gear
And always happy to see Mickey
And Goofy too
From breakfast we went out on Safari to check out the animals

Scott was cracking me up with this "unabomber" look! He was incredibly tired this day. Turns out he had taken some tylenol for a headache and it was tylenol pm but he didn't know it. So this picture cracked me up: unabomber Scott, Cara with her "oh no" expression and me..... We were on the train to Rafiki's place to go to the petting zoo and to meet Pocahontas
Cara and her "friend" Pocahontas
Petting a goat outside
Walking on the curb waiting for the Finding Nemo Musical show
A random self portrait of us enjoying the sunny day
I loved this picture because of the look of joy in Cara's face! She was just genuinely happy the whole trip (except for a few typical 3 year old moments)

Day 5 Part 2, the Luau

We wanted to try a few new things this trip so we went to the Spirit of Aloha Luau at the Polynesian Resort. In the spirit of going I decided to buy everyone matching Hawaiian shirts. Grandma took a shirt apart and then made Cara a dress out of one! Thanks Grandma!

Sporting the Luau theme, and yes we were the ONLY family in matching attire :)
The view of the castle from thePolynesian hotel, ...what a nice view and a nice resort
Seated at our table, awaiting us was salad, fresh bread, and pineapple, yum!
Not sure what face Cara is making but Daddy ordered the house specialty drink which came in a souvenir coconut!
They had a special tribute to those with March birthdays, can you spot Scott on stage dancing?
Another shot of the 5 of us
A close up of the Coconut drink holder
A couple pictures of the dancers
The fire dancer (I am sure he had a much more cool name that I have forgotten)
Cara intently watching the show

Day 4 Hollywood Studios

Day 4 was a trip to Hollywood Studios. It was a very cloudy day and the coolest one while we were there! Sweatshirts were a necessity this day!

Cara in line at Playhouse Disney
And a little cheek to cheek time with Mommy while waiting for the show to start
They had a wonderful play land from "honey I shrunk the kids" where you shrink down to the size of an ant to see what the world is like from that size. Cara enjoyed all the slides in the play area.
A little trip to NYC! Cara chose to take a picture of Mommy and Daddy by the subway
And Cara and Daddy coming up from the subway stairs
We found a place to get face painting and Cara thought that would be pretty neat. She picked the "tinkerbell" look, are you seeing a theme here?

All done and beautiful!
When we got back to the hotel that night we picked up our package which contained Cara's newest puzzle, Tink in the middle of all the princesses. We didnt want to carry it in the rain so we had it sent to the resort instead.

Day 3: Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, Epcot and Rain

We arrived at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Downtown Disney to get our Princess ready for a big day! This is the second time we have visited the BBB and for the 2nd time she was chosen to be turned into a Princess in the window seat! What an honor! It may go to her head and she will think she always get the royal treatment!


Our fairy godmother in training make Cara more beautiful than she is
Getting makeup on
tada! She INSISTED on being Tinkerbell for the day and made one cute Tink for sure!
We took her over to the "photo studio" for a couple of really cute shots! We will have to order one or two because she was posing great

So with rain coat on (it was starting to rain at this point) it was time to head to another fun-filled day at Epcot
So dressed in the very stylish Disney poncho we continued on with our day in the pouring rain
One way to escape the rain was to visit some characters. I was not going to spend our precious time in line for more characters but the rained changed my mind pretty quick!
We love Minnie Mouse
And Donald Duck
This was my favorite picture with Goofy because of her excitement to see him
And Chip and Dale time too

Then we headed to Norway to a Royal Banquet with the Princesses for dinner
Belle greets all the guests as they arrive
The lovely Aurora posing with Cara
A cheek to cheek with Cinderella
And Ariel too
Daddy's favorite is Ariel so he hopped up for a picture with her
Snow White also stopped by
In these pictures she was dancing and posing in the spot where Belle welcomes guests


Epcot was hosting the annual flower and garden show while we were there so we visited an outdoor Pixie Hollow to see the fairy sculptures
Cara had to "read" each and every one to us. And notice it has finally stopped raining by the time we left dinner!
While at Downtown Disney we bought Baby Cara a tinkerbell dress to wear to be like Cara. Baby Cara is one stylish little doll :)