Disney World 2015!!

We just returned from our second Disney World trip!!

We had an amazing, exhausting, magical time all wrapped up together!

We left last Sunday morning(I'm back dating this post to be a recap post before I do into all that we've done this past week!) and ELEVEN HOURS later pulled into our condo!  We quickly unloaded our stuff, grabbed dinner and then hit up the grocery before making it back for the night!  As usual, our first night was one with little sleep!  The A/C loudly clicked on and off every 20 minutes through the night, the mattress was like sleeping on newspaper every time you moved and C was up at about 4:30!  Luckily that was our worst night - and the A/C guy came and fixed the unit late Monday evening!

This was such a fun grocery trip after 11 hours int he car - HA!

 We spent five days in the park and Wednesday at the condo playing on the playground and the awesome pool!  You will notice in the pictures in the next posts that S proudly wore her birthday pin all week and very much enjoyed the attention that all the cast members paid to her, wishing her a happy birthday at every turn!  Also, only at Disney can an 8-year-old get away with riding in a stroller and not look completely ridiculous(I was happy to have the stroller not only for pushing little legs around, but also for hauling in all the water and food we needed each day and keeping us all together in the crowds!).  Speaking of crowds, this week it was very crowded and the lines seemed longer than they were when we went in April a couple years ago!  Then, Saturday, OH.MY.GOODNESS!!!  It was so so so crowded!  I checked the next day, and the crowd level was a 9 out of 10 - so YES, packed out at Disney World!  The weather was very warm in the upper 80s all week and luckily not a drop of rain!

Some of our favorites while we were there:

M - Test Track(Epcot), Mine Train and Space Mountain(Magic Kingdom), Indiana Jones(Hollywood Studios) but Frozen was a very close second for him!
Me - Soarin'(Epcot), Mine Train and Splash Mountain(Magic Kingdom), Frozen(Hollywood Studios)
C - Test Track and Soarin'(Epcot), Big Thunder and Splash Mountain(Magic Kingdom), Toy Story(Hollywood Studios)
S - Soarin'(Epcot), Splash Mountain and Peter Pan(Magic Kingdom), Frozen(Hollywood Studios)

They both enjoyed some lazy morning time on our pool/
playground day!

We found out that S had 3 tests next week, so we had to spend
some of our time studying!  Boo!!

While the girls studied, the boys found the PlayStation!

I remember loving seeing the hot air balloons last time
we went too!!

 We drove home yesterday and thankfully it was only a 9 hour trip home with little traffic and short stops!  We were so thankful to finally pull into our driveway!

The dreaded ride home!

Tired, happy kids!

Our trip was full of so many memories and and so glad that we went back while both of the kids still believe in the magic of it all!  It will be quite a while before we return(And next time, let it be known, that M has said he'd prefer to stay on Disney property!  I'm holding him to it!), but I'm holding tight to all the good times we had over the past week!