Day 2 and 3

When we were deciding on a hotel, we chose the art of animation because it had a little mermaid themed room. We turned down a free upgrade to a suite, because we didn't think the girls would like being in a lion king room as much. When I first walked into our room, I was disappointed at how small and cheap it seemed. But my mind was soon changed, as soon as the girls saw it, and were completely enchanted. Kiersten swooned over the painting of her hero, Prince Eric. Evie honestly believed Ariel was lending us her own bedroom, and kept saying how nice she was, and wondering when she would come home. 

Posing princesses. Evie talked Daddy into getting her a Cinderella dress, and was so excited to wear it, so we saved her pink one I made for another day. 

The entire courtyard was filled with larger than life statues of all the characters. Outside our room, we had a nice view of Ursula's rear end. 

Kiersten posing with her prince. 

We spent the first part of Sunday at Hollywood studios. There weren't very many rides the kids could go on, but they loved the Ariel musical. We also ran into lots of their favorite characters. 

Kara took lots of pictures. In fact, there are several things I thought I had a picture of, but turns out, it was only on her camera. I think she video'd the whole parade. 

I wasn't that excited about the green army men, but they really put on a funny show for each kid. 

We ate dinner at Cinderella's restaurant that night. Evie peed on me on the way there, and we were so late, so I ended up sitting through the whole meal with pee on my jeans. 

Evie was particularly excited to meet Prince Charming. 

The step sisters were pretty nice. Ben's favorite part of dinner was when a little girl dropped and broke her plate. Both step sisters stopped, and screamed for Cinderella to come clean it up. 

On Monday we went to the Animal Kingdom. We had breakfast at Donald Duck's restaurant.

Kara wore her birthday pin each day, so she could get special desserts. Here, she got a card signed by all the characters from breakfast. 

Kiersten was really nervous about these crocodiles. 

fun safari family!

waiting to go on the dinosaur ride. I think it may have been my favorite ride. 

We had to try out my new waterproof camera in the pool at our hotel. We took some video of Kara swimming, and figured out what she is doing wrong under water. so that was helpful. 

We should have taken more pictures of the pool when it was light. It was a really neat Nemo themed pool. 

Ben and Kiersten started getting sick that night, so we didn't go back out after swimming, we got to bed early so we could all get enough rest.