Our own Visa commercial

Last weekend, we took a long weekend and visited the land of all things Mickey Mouse. Since we are on a tight budget, we stayed at the All Star Sports hotel, which was very nice and had everything we needed. On Friday, we spent the day at Hollywood Studios (formerly known as MGM Studios). The monkeys really enjoyed the Playhouse Disney show. Katie wanted to hug all the characters on stage and asked each time a new one appeared. Here is a video of them enjoying the bubbles.

They also loved meeting all their favorite characters- especially Buzz Lightyear and Woody. At the end of the day, they got to meet Mickey Mouse.

After lunch, we visited the playground designed after "Honey I Shrunk the Kids".

We finally went to visit Mickey!

Hollywood Studios has a spectacular nightime program called Fantasmic. We met our friends the Martin Family for it. Everyone really enjoyed it.

And then we crashed!

On Saturday, we spent a long day at the Magic Kingdom. We enjoyed Story Time with Belle, the Buzz Lightyear Ride, and the Dumbo Ride. Katie's favorite was the same as Mommy's "Its a Small World." Although, she called it the "Dolly Ride" Mimi and Papa joined us in the afternoon. We stayed for the very crowded parade and watched some of the fireworks before making our way back to the hotel. At the beginning of the fireworks, Tinkerbell "flies" from the castle down into the park. Brady kept asking me where she went, so I finally told him that she went to get a snack. He said "Did she go into the water to get a hamburger?" We all agreed that she did and that was the last we heard of it.

Here are a few of our favorite photos:

SUNDAY:

Cost of 4 Day Park Passes: $400

Two nights at a hotel: $215

Souveniers: $100

Riding the FREE bus, boat and monorail: PRICELESS

All Disney Resorts offer free transportation to the parks- the All Star Sports busses all their guests. By Saturday afternoon, we determined that the monkeys would be on overload and that it was probably not a great idea to do a third day at the parks as we didn't think it would pleasant for any of us.

So we opted to have a low key day. We rode the bus from the hotel to the Magic Kingdom.

Took a boat to catch the monorail to Epcot.

And the bus from Epcot back to the hotel. I think Brady enjoyed the "free rides" more than the parks themselves. We then packed up the cars and checked out of the hotel and went off to Downtown Disney for some lunch and a little shopping. Brady and Katie had a terrible meltdown in the van and when we put them in the stroller, they both passed out. Mommy and Daddy got to enjoy Rob's belated birthday lunch with Mimi and Papa while they slumbered.