Hollywood Studios

We came to Hollywood Studios on Thursday and loved it! Yes, it was hot this day too, lol! We went inside a lot for different attractions.

We were ready for fun, because this is where Buzz was at.

I loved seeing all the film related decorations and statues.

There was a “busted” fire hydrant here that Skylar ran through a few times.

We were walking through the “city” and I thought this little side vendor sign was funny.

Aren’t the fake buildings behind us cool!

I think we’re getting closer to Buzz and Woody…:)

We waited for 60 minutes for this “Buzz Lightyear” ride (Toy Story Mania attraction), becasue all the fast passes were given out for the day, ugh! This ride was totally worth it though. Skylar was in heaven!! While we were waiting in line, they had all these cool toy story props everywhere.

We had to take a picture with Mr. Potato Head.

We strapped Skylar to a rocket and then he posed with prospector (Stinky Pete)

The “Claaaaaw”

Skylar was SOOOO excited to meet Buzz!! He shook his hand and then pushed his buttons! It was hilarious!

Skylar was really on cloud nine. Can you guess what he’s going to be for Halloween?

After we went on the ride, it was time for the afternoon block party parade. They stopped and danced for seriously an hour in the road. Oh yeah, it was hot....did I tell you that. I got the craziest flip flop tan on my feet!

Hey Woody!

Skylar finally watched Monsters Inc this week and he loves it. I kind of wished he watched this movie before we went. It would have made the parade that much more for him.

Sully the monster was there.

Our friends met up with us during the afternoon. We were so happy to see them!

BECAUSE...that meant Terry and I were able to ride this, since Katie and Matt were watching Skylar. This ride was awesome!! If you go here, then you have to ride the “Tower of Terrors”.

Love our friends!

They went on their first date, lol to a drive in movie theater.

We stopped a lot and ate ice cream to cool down.

We miss our friends terribly!

Animal Kingdom

Ok this day, we were just plain exhausted and it happened to be the hottest of all days.  I heard one of the park guys say that the heat index was 109….I took that as SUPER HOT!!  So, we came to this park super excited, but left after about 3 hours. I was too tired to take any pictures, well many.  Skylar and Terry looked at the huge fruit bats, while I sat down in the shade gulping down my water.  The humidity was horrible!!  I did learn from this trip that we need to go to Disney the months of Oct to April/May.  We did see the 3d attraction, It’s tough to be a bug.  That was awesome.  Skylar loved it and I did too.  It was pretty neat and of course, cool because it was indoors.  We saw the Lion King show too.  We missed out on the safari ride that everyone said we need to go on.  Man, I’m so bummed just thinking about it now.  Our next trip will be to Animal Kingdom first! 

The tree of life. 

The carvings were so neat in the tree of life.

 

We went to Dinoland and really didn’t get too far in the park.  It reminded me of a theme park in the dessert.  hah!  Skylar loved it!

Skylar is actually beside me, I swear.  :) 

Little Trip to Washington, NC

Last month I was asked to sing in my college (DZ sista) friend’s wedding.  It was in a little town called Washington.  Yep, I never heard of this town too, but it’s a little town that’s near Greenville.  If you ever have to drive through, you should stop. Anyways, I used to sing a lot back in the day and well I was excited and thrilled that I was asked to sing in her wedding that is until I realized that I am scared to death, petrified, crapping my pants, not really comfortable to sing in front of people anymore.  As the days were leading up to her wedding, I was getting more uncomfortable.  I was happy that Terry and Skylar came to the wedding with me.  We did have a fun Saturday touring the town.  It kept my mind off things so to speak.

The wedding itself was held outdoors and was at the waterfront.  It had gorgeous views.  I couldn't see Terry or Skylar, but when I began to sing, Skylar let everyone around him know that his mommy was singing.  Terry said he was grinning from ear to ear and he was so proud of me.  :)  That just melts my heart.  normally in the car he tells me to stop screaming, so it made me feel good.  Also…good news is that I didn’t pass out and I actually finished the song. ;) 

Bad news is, that I’m hanging up my grammy seeking career now. 

We walked down the streets during the day on Saturday.  Skylar was being super cute.   

 

To the left was actually where the wedding took place. 

 

There were ducks that Skylar loved to look at. 

Experimenting with picture editing.  I thought this was cute. 

This building was pretty cool.  Washington has a lot of character.

 

Skylar walks with his hands in his pockets and it’s so cute.

 

Some pictures of the decorations

        

The cake

 

I can’t believe I didn’t get any pictures of the wedding reception.  Marianne’s dress was so beautiful. 

 

Wendi and I (old roomies) posing.

Wendi was so sweet to Skylar.  They danced a little there too.  :)

 

Attempt at a family picture, lol…

 

My sweet little man.

Can this be our Christmas card?  hahah  Skylar is really cracking me up.

 

Epcot

We went to Epcot on our 3rd and 4th days. Again, since we had park hopper tickets, we jumped around a lot through out the day. I actually loved Epcot. I was thinking it would be the most boring, but it had everything and apparently, most adults like Epcot more, or so I read. You can drink in the park, actually you can drink in all the parks except Magic Kingdom. Anyways, with all the different worlds, you can drink what that country offers. I didn’t really get to take advantage of this, lol because it was so hot and I didn’t want to dehydrate myself. I did on the other hand drank a frozen mango, strawberry and lime margarita. :) Epcot is 3 times the size of Magic Kingdom, so there is a lot to see. I definitely want to go back to this one. We didn’t get to ride the rides everyone talked about, because first off, I don’t like riding rides by myself (our friends couldn't hang out with us everyday) and Skylar couldn’t ride these rides, because he was a tad under 40”. Disney is strict about that. He is 39 1/2” inches. dang….

Inside that ball was a really cool ride.

My sweet guys

This was a cool attraction

They had “Bruce” the shark that everyone was taking a picture with, so of course we had to do the same.

They had the jumping waters that Skylar LOVED!! He stood where the water was jumping to, so he could get wet.

We probably spent at least 30 minutes here, lol.

The water fountains were so pretty.

This may be at Magic Kingdom, but it’s mixed up with my Epcot pictures. :)

These birds were everywhere going up to all the tourists for food, ahah!

There was a Canadian Celtic band playing cover songs in the Canada area.

I can’t remember what this place is now. How quickly you forget. It was pretty all the same.

Epcot at night. It’s so pretty.