Mom2princesses
09-10-2007, 10:45 PM
Day 3 - Aug 27th - A day at AK!
Day 3 August 27th – Animal Kingdom and Hoop Dee Doo Review
Well today Stitch woke me up at 6:00 AM! Ugh I thought I was on vacation! I get up and take my shower. I do have one complaint about the Poly. Why in the world are the showerheads so low? I have to do all kinds of twisting and turning and bending just to rinse my hair. I am 5ft 10 in and I get a work out just trying to rinse the shampoo out of my hair! Do all resorts have low showerheads?
Once I finish with my Olympic routine! My dh gets up to take his shower. Once he is out I wake up my two princesses. They both woke up pretty easily. We had a date today with Donald for breakfast at 8:00 am. But before we can head out of the door I need to comb everyone’s hair. Now as you have seen in the pictures my older Daughter has naturally curly hair. Unless you have curly hair yourself or you have a child with curly hair you have no idea how hard it is to brush. I really feel for her because it is tough. I have to either wet it with water or use a spray in conditioner. The conditioner works best since it helps with the frizz although with the Florida heat all our hair did was get frizzy. Of course if I hit a tangle she accuses me of doing it on purpose. Ugh! I try my best to limit the pulling but sometimes you just can’t avoid it. She is not like her mom because she has a really low tolerance for pain. We both survive.
Once she was done it was my little one’s turn. Now she decided that she was going to be “three”. She was not cooperating so combing her hair and putting it in a ponytail was an adventure. She was acting like a typical uncooperative 3 year old twisting and turning and voicing her opinion. But Mom still got her hair up! I pride myself in being able to make a ponytail on the move!
Whew, finally we head out to the car. We decided to drive to AK. I was hoping to maybe stop by the AKL and check it out. Maybe even pick up some Zebra Domes. Driving to AK was a decision we would regret later on during the day. We got there without a problem. For some strange reason they like to part cars far away the earlier you get there. I always thought that if you got there early you parked closer to the entrance well not today! We parked the car and the long walk to the entrance was not a problem in the morning. We get into the park and head over to Dinoland. We check into the restaurant and they try to take that silly picture that they want you to buy for 30+ dollars. It might be fine if you go to one character meal but we got to a few and would be broke if we got them. Anyhow we all go up to pose and my little Diva was still not in a cooperative mood. She would not look at the camera. The good thing was that it made it easy for me to refuse the pictures. I was not about to force her I pick my battles and this was not one of them. I didn’t even want the silly picture.
They call us in pretty quickly and we are seated. Our CM tells us how the characters come in and approximately when they will start. He then takes our drink order and asks us to go and get our food. They had lots of hot food that included some different items like breakfast pizza and quiche. Other items were chocolate chip pancakes, plain pancakes, French toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, two types of hash browns and some other items I can’t remember. They had a whole separate table of cold items. Fruit, yougurt, breakfast breads, cereal and that kind of stuff. So we get our food and sit down and on cue my little Diva announces that she has to go potty. She does this all the time when we go out to eat. It is like she has some kind of survey going on to check out all the different rest rooms! But since she is only 3 I can’t ignore her (just in case) so off to the bathroom we go. We get back to the table and the characters start coming around. We got to see Donald, Mickey, Pluto and Goofy. The character interaction was ok. The girls were happy. The CM’s their do some pretty funny antics and I won’t spoil it for you but they were lots of fun. All in all it was positive experience and I am glad we tried it.
Here's Pluto! (http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/Mom2princesses_2007/Pluto.jpg)
Here's Goofy! (http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/Mom2princesses_2007/GOOFY1.jpg)
In this picture it looks like Diva is giving her autograph to Donald! (http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/Mom2princesses_2007/Donald.jpg)
After breakfast my dh takes Cindy and was going to put her on some rides in DinoLand while Ariel and I go and get FP’s for EE. We get back and meet up with my Dh and Cindy. Ariel wanted to go on Dinosaur and the standby line was only 10 mins. So I went on with her my dh stayed with our little Diva.
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Day 3 August 27th – Animal Kingdom and Hoop Dee Doo Review
Well today Stitch woke me up at 6:00 AM! Ugh I thought I was on vacation! I get up and take my shower. I do have one complaint about the Poly. Why in the world are the showerheads so low? I have to do all kinds of twisting and turning and bending just to rinse my hair. I am 5ft 10 in and I get a work out just trying to rinse the shampoo out of my hair! Do all resorts have low showerheads?
Once I finish with my Olympic routine! My dh gets up to take his shower. Once he is out I wake up my two princesses. They both woke up pretty easily. We had a date today with Donald for breakfast at 8:00 am. But before we can head out of the door I need to comb everyone’s hair. Now as you have seen in the pictures my older Daughter has naturally curly hair. Unless you have curly hair yourself or you have a child with curly hair you have no idea how hard it is to brush. I really feel for her because it is tough. I have to either wet it with water or use a spray in conditioner. The conditioner works best since it helps with the frizz although with the Florida heat all our hair did was get frizzy. Of course if I hit a tangle she accuses me of doing it on purpose. Ugh! I try my best to limit the pulling but sometimes you just can’t avoid it. She is not like her mom because she has a really low tolerance for pain. We both survive.
Once she was done it was my little one’s turn. Now she decided that she was going to be “three”. She was not cooperating so combing her hair and putting it in a ponytail was an adventure. She was acting like a typical uncooperative 3 year old twisting and turning and voicing her opinion. But Mom still got her hair up! I pride myself in being able to make a ponytail on the move!
Whew, finally we head out to the car. We decided to drive to AK. I was hoping to maybe stop by the AKL and check it out. Maybe even pick up some Zebra Domes. Driving to AK was a decision we would regret later on during the day. We got there without a problem. For some strange reason they like to part cars far away the earlier you get there. I always thought that if you got there early you parked closer to the entrance well not today! We parked the car and the long walk to the entrance was not a problem in the morning. We get into the park and head over to Dinoland. We check into the restaurant and they try to take that silly picture that they want you to buy for 30+ dollars. It might be fine if you go to one character meal but we got to a few and would be broke if we got them. Anyhow we all go up to pose and my little Diva was still not in a cooperative mood. She would not look at the camera. The good thing was that it made it easy for me to refuse the pictures. I was not about to force her I pick my battles and this was not one of them. I didn’t even want the silly picture.
They call us in pretty quickly and we are seated. Our CM tells us how the characters come in and approximately when they will start. He then takes our drink order and asks us to go and get our food. They had lots of hot food that included some different items like breakfast pizza and quiche. Other items were chocolate chip pancakes, plain pancakes, French toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, two types of hash browns and some other items I can’t remember. They had a whole separate table of cold items. Fruit, yougurt, breakfast breads, cereal and that kind of stuff. So we get our food and sit down and on cue my little Diva announces that she has to go potty. She does this all the time when we go out to eat. It is like she has some kind of survey going on to check out all the different rest rooms! But since she is only 3 I can’t ignore her (just in case) so off to the bathroom we go. We get back to the table and the characters start coming around. We got to see Donald, Mickey, Pluto and Goofy. The character interaction was ok. The girls were happy. The CM’s their do some pretty funny antics and I won’t spoil it for you but they were lots of fun. All in all it was positive experience and I am glad we tried it.
Here's Pluto! (http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/Mom2princesses_2007/Pluto.jpg)
Here's Goofy! (http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/Mom2princesses_2007/GOOFY1.jpg)
In this picture it looks like Diva is giving her autograph to Donald! (http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/Mom2princesses_2007/Donald.jpg)
After breakfast my dh takes Cindy and was going to put her on some rides in DinoLand while Ariel and I go and get FP’s for EE. We get back and meet up with my Dh and Cindy. Ariel wanted to go on Dinosaur and the standby line was only 10 mins. So I went on with her my dh stayed with our little Diva.
(cont'd in next post below)