Toy Story Land pics

Our Morning started with AJ's first ride on Tower of Terror.  This was the first time she has been tall enough to do this and she loved it!!!

She got one of the long rides going up and down about 5 times and came off saying "that was awsome!"

Of course this had to be followed by her first ride on Rock n Rollercoaster!! which was also "Awesome".

I love this picture - I think it shows every emotion you can have on a rollercoaster on our faces!!






Toy Story Land only opened a few weeks ago and so was BUSY. We rode Toy Story Mania but the lines were too long for the heat to queue to ride the other rides on this visit.

The green army men are around quite a bit in this land but this was the drummers who were marching to their performance area.

We've been busy

So sorry we have been so busy we haven't had time to blog!!

We will do a few little ones to catch up but here are some photos that should have been in the first blog.

This was the panoramic view of the sunset from our hotel room in Gatwick.  Amelia still doesn't get my plane obsession though!?!

Staying here was so easy and stress free we will definitely be doing this again.

After almost 24 hours of no sleep (yes she woke up at 3.30am UK time) Amelia was excited to be on the Magical Express and on our way to Saratoga.  The journey was far quicker this time than last at arriving mid-afternoon Florida time makes a BIG difference.

Kat arrived slightly later than she planned due to road diversions and tolls (tolls are now a swear word haha) but it was only 10 mins before she knocked the door.

A quick trip to Magic Kingdom ended a very long but good day.

Toy Story Land

Hi

We’ve just got back from Hollywood Studios.

We went on Tower of terror I was scared at first but by the end I loved it! After that we queued for rockin’ roller coaster. We waited 40 minuets in the standby line like it said. It was really fun!

Next we had brunch at ABC Commissionary. I had the chicken strips from Mummy’s land and sea meal.  It was really nice and I got to try ranch dressing. We went to Toy Story Land and used our fast pass for Toy Story Mania. I went on with Kat.

Then we came back to our hotel and after Mummy and Kat had been to the grocery store, the three of us went swimming in the pool which is right next to our building. I got into the water and realised that my goggles were still at home!! After a while Mummy and Kat joined me in the pool and were chucking me up and down into the water - it made me laugh and I kept swallowing all the water.

We had tea in the Artist Pallette at the resort and then we drove to The Springs for a wander - I got to meet a polar bear and have my photo taken with him in the Coke store.

Tomorrow is Animal Kingdom and in the evening it is Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party which I am very excited about.

Chat soon.

Amelia x

PS - Mummy is still working on adding photos - watch this space is you aren't following us on Instagram

We arrived!!

Apologies photos to follow as we are having some technical (with Mummy's blogging knowledge rustiness) issues

After an easy journey up to Gatwick we bravely left our car with the Valet parking and did Twilight Check-In. This is always far easier and stress free than doing it on the day of the flight and enables us to have slightly more sleep in the morning - well that was the idea.

Amelia woke bright and breezy at.... 3.30am and decided to perform a montage of 90's dance hits while dancing around our Premier Inn room!?!

We had a rather disappointing breakfast at the hotel and headed to security and get ready to board the plane which we did easily and found our seats right in the tail of the plane close to the toilets - just in case of upset stomach's like last time.

The flight was uneventful and we landed slightly late but our wait in customs wasn't horrendous and our luggage was already there when we had been cleared to enter which made proceeding to Disney's Magical Express easier.

We arrived at our resort in no time and once checked in we got a ride on a golf buggy with guest services to our building in "The Grandstand".

Kat's joirney down from Fort Lauderdale was slightly more fraught with a lot of toll road issues but she arrived just 10 minutes after we got to our room which was ideal.

Although Amelia had been up from silly o'clock and had not had sleep since, she was insistent on going to Magic Kingdom.  We did a ride and had something to eat before heading back out before the end of the fireworks to get on a quiet bus.

It's been a very looooong time

Well hello everyone it's Nona here AJ's (Amelia) Mum.

Its been a very long time since we posted any updates on this blog but guess what - we have a trip to WDW coming up and so the blog has been dusted off!!

Amelia is now 8 and is very able to write her own posts (that is very scary for me!!) and she is extremely keen to do so. I will also post when she is bored with it! Although it has been lovely to look back on her previous 3 trips where I typed on her behalf.

This trip comes at the end of a very difficult year for all of us after loosing my Dad. This trip was booked so that we could bring the year to a happy/fun conclusion ready to move on building memories without him. So Mamar (my Mum) is coming with us and also Kat my cousin is travelling over from Arkansas to spend the first week with us which is REALLY exciting for us all.

Again we are staying at our beautiful home resort - Disney's Saratoga Springs and Spa in a 2 bedroom villa which sleeps 8 so plenty of space for us all.

For the first time we have access to a car (thanks Kat for that bonus!!) and so will be venturing outside the Disney bubble to Universal for some wizarding fun and maybe some crayon art fun at the Crayola Experience. Plus I get to go to a supermarket (yes you really don't know how exciting this is to me - I am very sad like that lol) and Amelia is DESPERATE to visit Target!!(Mother like daughter.

Well if you are still reading this I hope you enjoy following us on our latest Disney Adventure. We are just over a week away from taking off from UK soil and I am sure AJ will want to publish a post before we go.

Oh dear

Whoops I have got a little behind on my blogging.

On Thursday I was not in the right mood for blogging and last night which was our last night here was spent in the park watching the main street electrical parade which was very cool. I'm glad that we managed it catch it in the end (everytime we planned to go in I fell asleep or was too tired).

The last couple of days have been spent in the Magic Kingdome of course - why would I go anywhere else?

We went in for park opening on thursday so that we could queue for the least time to go on the seven dwarfs mine train. This ride was being built when we were here last time so it was  new to all of us. The queue moved really quickly and was helped by the fact there is an interactive queue that had coool things in them.  The ride was AWESOME and I wish the lines weren't so long so that I can go again!  Daddy said now I had done that we could do big thunder mountain and I reluctantly agreed but only once we had done splash mountain again. Daddy was praying we didn't get a front seat this time so we didn't get so wet. Lucky we were 2nd row back and managed to stay relatively dry (well Mummy got a wet side and bottom!!). At least we weren't sad like the people infront of us who wore ponchos - they whole point of the ride is to get wet (or try to avoid getting wet lol).

We then went to big thunder mountain - I still wasnt convinced but Mummy and Daddy said that if I could do barnstormer and seven dwarfs they I could do this. Boy was it fun and I have wanted to do it lots. I even travel around with my arms in the air!!!!

I am also loving it's a small world - I love to sing all the way round and want to go on it nearly everytime we pass - as you can imagine Daddy is really pleased about that haha.

 I have also done barnstormer, dumbo, winnie the pooh, peter pan, pirates, haunted mansion and teacups lots.

On Friday we managed to finally see all of the show that takes place on the stage. It involves princesses and pirates aswell as the fab four (there's no pluto) and Malecifant tries to take over but Donald beats her with our help shouting Dreams come true as loudly as we can over and over!

I have also met Mickey Mouse and Ariel. Mickey wanted to fly like Peter Pan with me and we went running around the room with our arms out - he is funny.

Today is our last day and we fly back tonight. We are all sad to be leaving but we will be back again one day.

I will do a final round up blog of our last day and whole trip but for now I'm off for my final few hours in the park.

See you all real soon as Mickey would say.

Love Amelia xx

Yipeeeeeee

Sorry thought this had gone up a couple days ago but it seems to have failed :( this was Wednesday.

Today we went to Downtown Disney to do the bulk of the shopping and see the bits we missed.

We left fairly early with an aim to go back to the park in the evening. The bus journey goes via the Polynesian Hotel and Typhoon Lagoon.

We had a walk around the westside where there is lots of building work going on to turn it into Disney Springs.

The most exciting thing was that we found proper sausages and I have actually sat through a meal without asking for the toilet and with being encouaged to eat!!!! We will remember this for next time.  Thanks Cooke's of Dublin @ Downtown disney - 3 very happy customers will be returning.

By the end of the shopping I was too tired to go to see the electrical parade as planned and I fell aslep!!

Love Amelia xx