Princess Day

The little girls and I spent some time in Princess Fantasy Faire. This is the girls Princess coronation ceremony where they learned how to curtsey, wave and dance. Cinderella, Snow White and Aurora eventually joined the celebration and walked the maypole with all of the honorary prince and princesses. As you can see, a curtsey is not an easy thing to pull off!

There is a princess walk in this area that we did not have the time to stand in line for. I felt bad because Keddi's favorite princess is Jasmine and she did not get to see her except for on the steamboat in the night show. I wonder if she does the princess walk. Not all of the princesses are there all of the time.
I made reservations at Ariel's Grotto for lunch. The big girls stayed with the Hahn's. Again, no Jasmine. So Aurora was the favorite of the day. It was funny to see how much bigger their smiles were when she made it to our table. She was very engaging to the girls. Snow White had the voice down pat and Belle needs more practice with starting conversation with the small patrons, but the girls were a bit shy and didn't converse much anyway.

Tom Sawyer Island

Thursday started out cold. After eating lunch the girls huddled around Lindsay for warmth while we waited for Joel to come back with hot chocolate. (Fabulous idea Joel!) It got us warmed and ready for more adventure.

Lindsay said we should go to the island and I wasn't so sure I wanted to spend time there. There aren't any rides and I figured the kids (especially the older ones) would prefer to hit the rides. Lindsay knew better than me!! Every last one of the kids enjoyed this area and ran around, going through caves, up trees.... They weren't quite ready to go when we said we needed to move on.

While waiting for the raft to take us back to the "mainland" we heard some singing and came to watch these pirates sing. It was fun! The sun came out after that and the day warmed.

Minnie's house

We didn't even visit Donald's boat or Mickie's house. Everyone walks through them, but the kids can interact with some of the things in the house and the two little girls were in heaven! Unfortunately the boys weren't as "into" it so we didn't stay nearly as long as the girls could have.

Yep, Keddi (and Shinara) both jumped up on the bed (with streams of people walking past them) and snoozed. They sat at the kitchen table, pushed buttons for the dish washer and to bake a cake in the oven.

Toon Town

Alright, back to our trip. Toontown was fun! But it is geared more toward younger kids. The older girls had taken one of the walkie talkie's Joel bought for just such an occasion, and they went off on their own. (Which may be why Garron looks so pleased in the last picture!)

This roller coaster was short and not too large , but enjoyed anyway! This is pretty much how our visit went, Shinara was ready and willing for excitement and Keddi would reserve judgement. Lindsay only had one hand available to raise!

There aren't many rides in this area. It's more like a playground with A tree house that Chip and Dale live in and then houses for Minnie, Mickey and Goofy and a ship house for Donald. We didn't visit all the houses, but the little girls especially liked Minnie's house. I'll show pictures of that next.

Happy Birthday Joel

On the first Monday of December we decorate our tree. This year it also happened to be Joel's birthday.

Kris's birthday is the 1st as well. He came over after school to do homework and stayed until we were done with all of our activities.
Joel likes cherry pie. Lindsay had just made one last week though so I asked Tersa to make brownies instead. Joel wanted and got cuff links and we gave him the new Narnia movie on Tuesday since that's when it was released.