Disney!

We decided to take a family trip to Disney World in November.   With much planning, and agreement from the boys, we left on Halloween.  The boys were excited for their "first" plane ride.  Carson & Nathan have both been on planes but were just too little to remember.  With the craziness at the US airports, we did not take any pictures in the airport or on the plane.  They were a little sad that the pilots didn't give them candy but they got over it!

Day One - Magic Kingdom

We hit the park and planned on going to one end and working our way through the park methodically.  We got stopped waiting in line to see Merida, from Brave.  This was our view of Cinderella's castle while we were waiting to see Merida.

Merida with the boys, showing their muscles.
Merida was the only princess that the boys stood in line to meet during our whole trip to Disney (although they did get a picture with Princess Fiona at Universal!) 

They don't look too happy here, do they?

Eating Disney ice cream!
We were waiting for the park parade at Animal Kingdom to start and having a little snack break.

Up and trying to attract everyone's attention for high 5's along the parade route.

Phineas & Ferb 

The boys with a green soldier from Toy Story.

Mickey!

Goofy's Barnstormer - all the boys loved this rollercoaster.  We timed it well to go on back to back on our first day.  I sent 'the boys' back on while I tried to get a good shot of them coming through the billboard.  

Piglet!  aka Piggy
We went for dinner with Winnie-the-Pooh & Friends.  Piglet was a little "brighter" than we expected him to be.

 The boys loved the fact that the characters came to our table while were eating and would pose for pictures with us.

Tigger!  Nathan and Tigger were having a little game of nose poking!  Nathan poked Tigger and he would pat him back on the nose.

HEE-WHORE!
So, it turns out that Nathan's favorite Disney character is Eeyore.  Only he calls him Hee-Whore.   I wish I could get him on tape saying it as there is nothing quite like it!
You can see here how excited he was to give him a hug as he is lunging at poor Eeyore.  The best part of the whole story though is that Nathan was quietly eating and out of the corner of his eye he saw Eeyore coming.  He half turned, slapped Uncle Jason and jumped up out of his chair as he announced, "HEE-WHORE!"

I will admit that I was a little annoyed at having to pay $37 per person for food at the character dinner, however, Nathan's response to the characters made it worth every cent!   Next time we go we will do breakfast - apparently the waffles are Mickey shaped!

Stitch at Downtown Disney