Adventures in Disney World

October 19, 2007 we packed our bags and headed south again. This time all the way to Florida. Our crew had an extra member this time. We brought John's mom with us in order to have a one to one ratio of kids to adults. I was thinking it might be easier to trek around Disney World that way, not to mention Roe had not been to Disney since John was a little kid and their trip had been miserable.

Our drive down was fairly uneventful. We arrived at my grandparents' house in Ocala, on Saturday afternoon. We spent the night with them and got up early Sunday morning to head for Orlando. It's about an hour and a half from their house to Disney World. We printed directions from their map program on their computer... it lead us to Disney alright... right to the Cast Entrance. (Employee entrance that is.) So, after finding our way from there to Fort Wilderness, we registered for our cabin and headed off to the Magic Kingdom. It was CROWDED. I was kinda disappointed. One of the reasons I'd picked October was figuring that because school had already started, there'd be fewer people... WRONG... just fewer school aged kids. The first thing we did was eat lunch. Then we headed off to Space Mountain. Roe had never been on it. Josh and Julie had never been on it. So we all got on it... Julie was FREAKED OUT. Roe was quite sorry that she got on it.

Then we split up. I took Kailey. John took Joshua. Roe took Julie. John and Josh went on all the stuff in Tomorrowland. Kailey and I treked off to Adventureland to go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and Splash Mountain. Kailey got to become a member of Jack Sparrow's crew in one of the shows. I have no idea what Roe and Julie did. We all met back at the park entrance to head back to our cabin for dinner.

After a quick dinner, we all changed into our costumes. I was, of course, a pirate. Kailey was a belly-dancer/gypsy princess. Julie was a cat. Josh was a ninja. Roe was a gypsy. John was a party-pooper who wouldn't wear a costume. We went back to the Magic Kingdom to catch the Halloween parade and go trick-or-treating.

We ran into a group of singing pirates who entertained us with a bunch of goofy songs. We went on Splash Mountain and the Pirates ride again. We ended up with a HUGE bag of candy. It was a lot of fun.