Day 3
For some reason I don't have a lot of pictures from this day. Not sure why, must've been too surprised and excited to take many.
We went to the park early and picked up where we'd left off. We tried for Parent of the Year a second day in a row and made Avery go on Indiana Jones. Pretty much the same reaction as Space Mountain only this time Phil got to experience it too.
We went to New Orleans Square and took a train ride around the entire park. Avery really enjoyed that and we commented several times how fun it would be if Carly, Dan, Elijah and Micah could be there too, we thought they'd really like the train. When we got back to New Orleans we had the girls profile picture drawn in pastels which gave us some down-time. We ate lunch under the trees in the shade. We went to Frontierland where mom and I went on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and headed back to the front of Adventureland for Dole Whip...mmmmm Dole Whip. Avery insisted we go in the Tiki Room, which is a running joke in our family anyway. My Gramma used to LOVE the Tiki Room and always made everyone go in it. We all think it's super lame but go whenever we're there anyway. Avery absolutely LOVED it too, she talked about it non-stop! While we were waiting for the show to start my mom's cell phone rang and it was my sister. She laughed when we told her we were in the Tiki Room. She told us she missed us, I missed her too.
We went back to the hotel after this and the girls got on their bathing suits. Phil said he had to go to the vending machine to get water, seemed weird but whatever. He was gone quite a while and I was starting to wonder what the heck he was doing. Suddenly Emma says, "There's someone outside talking to dad....I think it's Auntie Carly." Mom and I opened the hotel room doors and sure enough there was my sister, Dan, Micah and Elijah! They had come to California to surprise us. Mom cried, I cried, everyone else laughed.
The girls swam for a while, the boys napped and we headed back to the park. We met up with the Penner's at King Arthur's Carousel in Fantasyland. We had just gotten on the ride when they walked by so I grabbed Elijah over the fence and sat him on a horse. His first lesson in budging the line!
That night we wanted to go to the fireworks but as always MainStreet filled up fast and we weren't sure how to keep everyone entertained. We decided to just stay in Fantasyland and watch them from there. It was pretty cool because some of the fireworks go off from Sleeping Beauty's castle, which was right in front of us, and some go off from Toon Town which was right behind us. It was like watching a tennis match of fireworks. Tinkerbell did her high wire fly-by right over us. Elijah is in love with Tinkerbell (to clarify he does not want to BE Tinkerbell, he's in love with Tinkerbell.) When Tink flew over he had the best look on his face.
