Driving Day

We left Disney Thursday morning and drove to NC. Orlando to Jacksonville, NC took us about 10 hours. Mason and Jack were ready for bed, so I stayed in the hotel room with them while Daddy and Adam went out to dinner with Grandma and Uncle Chris.

Rain

There was a bad storm as we were leaving, so they gave us ponchos. We could have stayed for the fireworks show, but that didn't sound like fun in the rain. We took the bus home instead.

We could see the fireworks again from our hotel room, though.

More Character Pics

After the show, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Mickey, and Minnie stuck around for pictures. We skipped Mickey and Minnie since we had already met them at the welcome dinner.

Farewell Dinner and Show at Epcot

For our last night in Disney, we walked over to Epcot for a dinner show. That's our hotel behind Jackie and me.

It's all of us! As Jackie would say, "Red people, let's roll!"

Arriving at Epcot. Adam fell asleep shortly after this. All that swimming caught up with him.

They had lots of different activities for the kids. Here's Jack's spin art and sand art.

Jackie getting an airbrush tattoo of Lightning McQueen

Mommy got one, too

More facepainting

Adam woke up once we went into the dining room and thought it was too loud

Mason, loving some dessert

The start of the show. The kids all sat right in front of the stage and got to see tons of Disney characters.

Yay, great show!

Stormalong Bay

We spent the morning and most of the afternoon at Stormalong Bay, a really nice pool/waterpark at our hotel. This is the pool that the boys spent the most time in. The deepest it was came up to Adam's shoulders, so the boys were able to have free run of the pool.

Mason liked the pool, too. He did take a break from it in the afternoon, though, taking a nap in the hotel room while Daddy got some work done.

Jack preferred playing in the sand.

Grammy and Papa with the boys

Back in the water! Adam was a fish this day. He pretty much taught himself to swim by the end of the day. The only time he got out of the pool was to eat lunch.

Daddy and Mas in the lazy river

There's my fish!

Jackie going down the little slide. The boys went on this countless times and loved it...until they discovered that if you go up those extra sets of stairs behind the little slide, you could go down a big, twisty, speed slide.

Adam's turn

Getting the boys back over to the stairs for their next turn

Daddy and I or Papa and I took turns going on the big slide with the boys. One of us would go first, to be at the bottom to catch the boys, while the other sent the boys down and followed them down.

You are supposed to come down feet first, lying on your back, arms crossed. The boys tried to come down sitting up; sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't.

In this next pic, Adam ended up on his belly, face first. But, even as his face hit the water and was distorting his words, I could still make out him saying "AGAIN!!!"

Adam, finally tired enough to get out of the pool and off the slides

After this, Grammy and Papa left for the airport while the rest of us went to our room to get ready for our farewell dinner show.