Universal Day One; Trip Day Three

On our third day in Orlando, we went to Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure.  It was really fun!!  We started out in Seussland, which was SO cute and decorated even nicer than Disneyworld for Christmas.  

Plus my kids love the Dr. Seuss books so it was a big hit. 

See look how cute it was! 

There was a carousel. 

An air train, which the kids loved...

What a good dad.  There was a lot of this.  (Stroller pushing and hand holding at the same time.)  

And of course, with dad, there's always a lot of swinging around. 

Dora's favorite part of the whole day was the squirrel.  She fed and fed and fed it.  

Emmy was a little whiner that day but we still love her... 

Eli's favorite was definitely Super Hero land.  

Both kids were really excited about Spider Man. And Spider Man was really nice to the kids, took a real interest and talked to them for like 5 minutes.  

Dora was so excited to see Captain America (Eli obviously was, too.)  

Wolverine was pretty cool too.  Check out Eli's "Super Hero Face".   

The kids still had energy when we left, but look at dad and Lerdle-luh go!!  

One happy kid... 

Love that daddy

These girls sure love their dad!




Emmy gives kisses now!




Dora loves him too. Watching rudolf the red nosed reindeer!




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Dad works a lot!

Dad's been working nights a lot. We miss him. When we got home from church (shortly thereafter anyway) he woke up.

We love you daddy! Now go back to sleep so you can work again tonight.



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Magic Kingdom

Our second day in Florida we went to the Magic Kingdom.  Everyone had a great time.  

Emmy was a champ again. 

The Christmas decorations were beautiful... 

 We got a signature book and Dora got to see some princesses, etc.  

She saw Sleeping Beauty too, but didn't know who she was.  She really wanted to see Ariel and Rapunzel but we didn't manage to find them.   

The kids really liked "It's a small world after all." 

 We had fun on the carousel... 

And Eli and Dora lucked out--Whit and my dad took them on the Dumbo ride.  

The kids loved the race cars, and went twice.  

We hoofed it over to Tomorrowland so Eli could do Space Mountain.  It was a bit much for him.  He liked it but at one point we turned around when lights were flashing and he looked terrified and sick at the same time! Haha.  Poor kid.   

Here they are with Stitch.  

The kids were excited to see Chip and Dale but they were wearing weird clothes because they were in Tomorrowland. (Or Futureland, whatever it's called.) 

We got Dora and Eli baby kangaroos.  They were so excited about them and Dora took it everywhere with her after that. 

Our first ride of the day was the water (log ride--Brer Rabbit I think).  Anyway, I got soaked and so my hair looked like crap all day.  Oh well! 

After a long day at the park Dad was working overtime to keep the tired kids happy. 

 Luckily I had the camera when Eli decided to pick a flower.  I should have stopped him I guess but it was so funny!