Monday, May 26, 2008

DisneyWorld Vacation

We spent May 5-12 in Orlando for our family vacation. We had a GREAT time! We stayed at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club and spent several days at the various Disney parks. We even took a day and drove to Daytona Beach for a day at the ocean.

A typical day consisted of going to a park, coming home, 2-hour nap, and then a few hours at the pool. Repeat. 6 times. We couldn't have picked a better week to go; we walked up to literally every ride. The first 2 weeks in May falls between Spring Breaks and the end of school. 90 degrees and sunny every day. We had to split up the family on the flights as we had frequent flier miles on Delta and Southwest had the best fares, so mom and Emilie took Delta and the rest of us flew Southwest. Fortunately I was able to book the flights so we arrived close together time-wise.

Enjoy the pictures! Click on picture for larger size photo...


Eating breakfast on the hotel balcony; 75 degrees and beautiful!


Family @ Magic Kingdom...did I mention there were NO lines?


Emilie @ airport...she is excited!

Emilie in hotel pool...she would live in the pool if she could!

Did I mention that they love water? This is 5 minutes after check-in.

Maddie jumping to Dad.

Maddie in pool.

More pool.

Not sure when this was...the pool must have been closed.

Day 1...boat ride to Magic Kingdom!

Splash Mountain 2008. Dad gets really excited on this ride.

Splash Mountain 2004. Excited again!

Splash Mountain 2001. Our friend Steph Bullock asked who the special needs
guy was in the back...

Dino Ride. I didn't want to buy the photo, so I took this picture as our
photo came up on the monitor. Poor Em was scared on this one!

Mom and Emilie

This is us waiting for the tram at like 11:30PM.
Emilie is baked and not happy!

Family

Girls

Girls


Horse show

Justine jumping rope on Main Street

Justine

Emilie & Madelyn

Maddie driving the car. This is the ride that has the rail that you drive
down. She banged the car back & forth all the way around. My
head was pounding after this ride!

Mom & Maddie

Splash Mountain

Ride

THE BEACH

Dad

This wave must be 10-12 feet high. Brave.

Em & Mads

Emilie on boogeyboard

Emilie waiting for the big wave set to come in...

Justine & Mads playing in surf

Justine boogeyboarding

Big Wave!

Justine in waves

"Is that Dad saving that beautiful girl from that shark?"


























4 comments:

  1. We loved seeing the pictures of your vacation. We took Grandma Audrey and Grandpa Walt with us when Randy and Katie were 9 and 11. We had such a great time. No lines for us as well. That makes it more fun and well worth the money.

    Thanks for sharing the photos.

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  2. All of the Blewsters will see this. This is the same time of year we went to Disneyworld. Super trip to take, beautiful weather, great memories! Your family looks good & happy. Those girls have grown, of course. We hope to visit ya'll sometime this summer.

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  3. Disney World has sure changed since we were there back in '86! Loved the pics, you all look as if you had a great time! Love, Bob and Kath

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  4. Looks like you guys had a great time. Loved the pix's. I've never been To Disney World but, it sure looks like a lot of fun. Aunt Barb & Uncle John

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