We had lots of fun around July 4th when we spent time at Disney World. Picked up Justin and toted him over to Shades of Green to stay, it's a hotel on Disney property that caters to people within the different military branches.
Mark and Brenda met us there for approximately 36 hours, give or take a couple hours. :-) July 4th was spent at Universal Studios-Islands of Adventure, we got through the park by 3PM and managed to ride ALL the water rides at least once. A soggy butt is not FUN!! Later that night we went across the street to the Polynesian Hotel to watch the Disney fireworks, very impressive. Once that was over we headed back to hotel and enjoyed a fantastic Italian dinner with Mark & Brenda.
The next day are buds left to go home and the "Powers" headed off to the Big, Wide World that is DISNEY. Starting out at the Animal Kingdom which was an excellent place to start, we conquered the Himalayan roller coaster ride. Onto the next park MGM Studios, I mean Hollywood Studios which is crazy since we're not in "Hollywood". Tower of Terror was on our list as well as Rock N Roll rollercoaster which to are disappointment we couldn't get on because of the wait. We managed to enjoy the afternoon running around to a bunch of our other favorite rides. We headed back on one of the Disney (air conditioned) buses, we love A/C after being out in the hot, humid sun all day. :-o Back to the hotel to "freshen up" and then despite thunder in the air we ventured on the Monorail over to Disney World A.K.A. The Magic Kingdom for the evening, we had until 12AM to pack in as much of the magic that we could stand. Old haunts we knocked out; Space Mountain, People Mover, Carosel of Progress, It's a Small World, Haunted Mansion, Winnie the Pooh but no time for Pirates. :-/ We were right next to the Castle when the fireworks went off, that was totally cool and LOUD.
By end of the night we were tired, sweaty and sore not to mention Justin wanted me to carry him out of the park. Yea right....carry me! hee,hee!
We got to bed that night around 1:30AM once we wound down from all the excitement that is Disney and I might add 3 parks in one day.
That was our little getaway this summer, hope you enjoyed. The party had to end the next day when we dropped Justin off with his Mom and Scott and I headed back to Tally.
