Long Year-End celebration – Big Beezy and Lil Peezy

After working a few hours on Tuesday, we headed down south. We sped down compared to our last travel timeframe during Thanksgiving. We arrived in time for dinner, so we stopped in MP since traffic was backing up. I texted May, who was at her son’s basketball practice. I’m not sure why kids have practice, since that’s why we missed our cousins. Abby had basketball, too! We headed over to their house after we ate dinner, and they had showered up. Alex and Justin were great hosts to the kids while we chatted with May and Ed. The kids were all playing with Legos, and we were checking out their extensive video game collection. We didn’t want to stay too long, so we headed out after about 30 minutes or so. We headed back to the house, and both kids had fallen asleep by then. We got them ready for bed. We got up the next morning and headed to the park after a quick breakfast at home. We spent most of our time at CA adventure, since DLand was super crowded. We found a new attraction – animation art studio. Here, there is a master artist who teaches his or her students how to draw a Disney character, in under 15 minutes. The kids were fascinated by it, and we ended our evening late Wednesday, staying for 3 sessions to close down the night, after 1130 pm. We had to exit the theater each time, but the kids had no problems waiting in line for re-entry. We got to draw Baymax, Pooh, and Mickey the first night. We returned for a “master class” that was 30 minutes to draw Captain Hook the next day. We also took in 2 sessions of Aladdin, since they now have fast passes for the theater. We tried to stay together on rides, but the kids’ interests divided us in two different ways. We did play some carnival games, which we don’t usually do. Brandon was embarrassed to throw balls with the cousins last time, but he did it this trip. He wasn’t successful; neither was Dave, but he did get close. Peyton bested Brandon in a horse race game, which requires you to roll balls to advance the horse. She won a small Barker Mickey. I beat four strangers at a water-shooting game to win a larger Barker Mickey. We had Brandon try his luck again, but he wasn’t successful. (He did later get a drawing from the master artist of Pooh, and Peyton received one specially drawn for her as we waited the final class on our first night – Olaf, to match her hat.) By New Year’s Eve, the last few hours remaining, Dave picked Peyton up a 7th birthday pin. She was a bit reserved in showing it, but when it came down to riding rides, she wanted to ride alone. Each cast member had to stop her and ask her her age. She proudly said, “Seven!” which allowed her to go on alone. She’d chosen the Tuck and Roll bumper cars, and the kids did it at least 3 times in a row. She took off her hat, and the cast member thought she snuck in. He realized after seeing her hat in her hand, “OH, sorry, I didn’t realize you took your hat off. I remember you.” We watched the countdown in Alice’s Mad T party, which was a bit uneventful. After, we took advantage of the kids taking a nap earlier in the day before heading to the park (by 3 pm), and we headed to dland. There, we rode Haunted Mansion (I found my name on Santa’s list – spelled correctly!), and Brandon rode Pirates with Dave. We even got to see the tail end of Fantasmic! Peyton’s never seen it before, and Brandon had, but back in the day, when he was younger (2), he didn’t like the fireworks, lights and noise. We had to walk away before because he was so scared. We did a bunch more in just an hour after midnight came and went, since most people flocked to Tomorrowland. We couldn’t believe how long the lines were still at that time! Upwards of a 90 minute wait for both Star Tours and Hyperspace Mountain. We decided to leave right around 1:15 am or so, and we didn’t get back until after 2 am. The kids were totally passed out, but kudos to them for making it that long in the first place. We all slept in, then headed back into the park for a shorter day. We got fast passes for Star Tours, and made the most of Peyton’s button with cast members wishing her a happy birthday. She was creeped out by a stranger, non-cast member who wished her a happy birthday. One cast member even asked, “Wait, is today REALLY your birthday?” She nodded, and he said, “Well, all those people were celebrating you last night!” Haha…hopefully she doesn’t really think that. For the second trip in a row, we saw one of Peyton’s classmates. Chloe spotted Peyton while we were coming back from our canoe trip. This was so random, since this was our first time in the canoes, and the line was pretty obscure. We waved hi and bye as Chloe was about to board her own canoe with her family. We separated quite a bit as Peyton and I did a couple of fantasyland rides – Alice and Storybookland, while Dave and Brandon rode Matternhorn. I’d ridden with him earlier in the trip, so I didn’t need to do it again. We also did a few trips into “It’s Tough To Be A Bug”, which the kids enjoyed time and time again. This was also a new one for us, though Dave and I had done it before. The kids had fun trying to memorize the lines from the show, as they were Aladdin’s lines. It was also nice since it was warm inside the theater, so we didn’t protest. After exhausting most of what they wanted, we headed home to eat a late dinner with the grandparents. They’d gotten Peyton a cake, and made her a nice dinner. Everyone turned in early, as we’d had a long three days. We awoke on Saturday and ate lunch before heading out on our drive. Dave wanted to drive at night to avoid kid-issues, but his parents told him otherwise. We left at 2 pm, and didn’t get home until after 10 pm 🙁 Fail. It was like t-day traffic! Brandon was very happy to be home in his own bed.
We resumed normal life today, with the kids going to basketball practice at the gym with Dave, while I did all the laundry that hadn’t been done at the parents’ house. I put away all our ornaments just as the kids came home. They showered up, then we headed to celebrate my dad’s birthday. Peyton had asked me when we were going to celebrate his birthday while we were on our trip. So we were making good at it. We’d already given him his present before we left, but we went to take him out to lunch. The kids were excited for the trip up. We ate lunch, then walked around a bit before heading back to the house. My dad also had dinner plans, unbeknownst to us, so he left before we were done watching the niner game. We called the kids to come up from watching tv to leave after the game was done. The kids were in bed before 730 pm. I had Peyton start reading Harry Potter, the illustrated version. The print is larger, so she only got through 4 pages, but it was a good start for her. I’ll have fun reading it over with her. Tomorrow we’ll start the new year off with school and work!

Pictures are a bit out of order since my phone wouldn’t let me upload them all at once.

First day carnival games

The stare down before the competition began



Jellyfish

  Anna and Elsa reunite with Olaf and Brandon.

Pooh

Brandon riding solo with Peyton at the wheel with Dave. I had to go by myself 😢
Three of us on the clamshell so Peyton could ride alone.

Aladdin. First night.
Happy Canoe year! The boat guy told us that. He also said we were sitting behind sprinklers, aka little kids and said we were gonna turn into Soak-a-hontas.

I was the one who got wet. Sitting behind Brandon! Luckily it was our warmest day.

Maters jamboree
A lap or two around the railroad track.

60 th anniversary rice crispy treats

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