Disney World -- Random

Here are a few more random pictures from Disney World.

 

 

On the bus heading to the airport. Caden and Caroline are sporting shirts that Amy made.

Caden slept in Grammie's arms on the flight to Orlando.

Caroline was very excited to get on the bus after reaching Orlando.

Entering Disney World

 

The cousins loved being silly together.

 Ella was very entertaining.

On the morning of our last day, we took our luggage to the bell hop. Caden and Caroline pushed their suitcases all the way there.

Our farewell breakfast with Mickey Mouse and his friends.

Caroline and Caden got surprises while waiting for our table at breakfast. Caroline was very cute covering her eyes and peaking just a little.

We had a ton of fun on our Disney vacation and are already talking about going back...some day.

Disney World -- Characters

We took a lot of pictures with the Disney characters and got a bunch of autographs. Caden's favorite was Mickey Mouse. Caroline's favorites were Minnie Mouse, Cinderella, and Ariel (the Little Mermaid).

 Caden thought Pluto was very funny.

Ariel was the first princess we saw. Both kids were a little intimidated but later talked about how much they liked meeting Ariel. Caroline still says Ariel was her favorite princess she met in Disney.

 Snow White

 Rapunzel

 Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

 Cinderella

 Fairy Godmother

 Cinderella at the character dinner in Cinderella's castle.

 Snow White

 Sleeping Beauty

 Jasmine

Caroline liked meeting a non-mermaid Ariel. I'm pretty sure this Ariel is an Aggie. She talked to us about how her and Prince Eric like the Dixie Chicken and other places in College Station.

 Woody

 Buzz Lightyear

Green Army Man

 Goofy

 Donald Duck

 Caroline with Minnie Mouse holding her new Minnie doll (which was a present from the Baker 5).

Disney World -- Cinderella's Royal Table

We had reservations for the whole family to eat at Cinderella's Royal Table inside Cinderella's castle. We've been talking for months about how we were going to eat in Cinderella's castle. Caroline could not have been more excited about this.  

Grammie bought Caroline and Ella matching Cinderella dresses to wear to dinner with Cinderella. Caroline loved her dress! In the hotel, Caroline closed the bathroom curtain so that she could get dressed by herself and surprise me. It was soooo cute. After she got dressed (leaving her pink pants on under her dress), she climbed under the curtain to reveal her dress. I thought she was the prettiest princess ever! I told Caroline that was the best dress I've seen since Amy's wedding dress.

 Amy made the boys matching Mickey tie shirts. Here is our prince and princess.

Caden really wanted to kiss Princess Caroline.

Silly Will hanging out with the princess.

Caroline had a giant smile on her face the entire night.

Cal was less impressed.

Princess Caroline hugging Princess Ella. After the night was over and we met numerous Disney princesses, I asked Caroline who her favorite princess was. Her response was, "Princess Ella." How sweet is that!

There was hugging between these two princesses.

 Here is the entire family with Cinderella as we prepared to go up to dinner.

Disney World -- Hollywood Studios

We spent almost two days in Hollywood Studios. One of the coolest rides there is the Toy Story Mania ride. We arrived early both days and went straight there. I think we road Toy Story seven times.

Caroline was my ride buddy for much of the trip. She insisted on riding with me on the Toy Story ride every single time. She LOVED it! During the ride, Caroline pulled the rope to shoot her gun about once per second. She even scored a handful of points each time. I found it very entertaining.

Caden liked the ride was well but he did not want to wear the 3D glasses.

Caroline loved the glasses. She was very excited to pick them out and put them on each time we went through the line.

 

Grammie wanted everyone to have matching Christmas Disney shirts. Here are the kiddos in theirs. I did not get a picture of the adults sporting theirs.

The kids loved the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" playscape. They would have hung out there for hours if we let them.

 

The Baker boys love Star Wars. There was a great Star Wars ride in this park that we rode multiple times. Cal even did some Jedi training.

 Here is Cal sporting his Aggie gear.

After dinner, we headed to the Fantasmic show. This is the one night time Disney show I had never seen. I've heard it was great and was looking forward to it. We were all very excited waiting for the show.

However, if there is one thing we could have done differently on this trip, it would have been to not take my kids to see Fantasmic. The show was WAY to scary for them and was mostly about the Disney bad guys. Caden and Caroline spent most of the show with their heads buried into Amy and my sholders with a decent amount of crying.

Here are a few pics from Fantasmic.

After Fantasmic, we went to check out the street of lights. It was impressive. I thought it was by far the best Christmas decorations we saw at Disney. It even snowed as we walked thought the street.

We had a lot of fun at Hollywood Studios. Hollywood Studios is definitely one of my favorite of the Disney parks. We got to ride all of the rides we wanted to ride multiple times and we saw most of the shows.