Downtown Disney

I feel like people must just hate us reading about all of these fun things we've gotten to do lately.  We sure feel like we're spoiled.  

Michael has been doing a lot of traveling with work lately.  Luckily he's close by the rest of the month, but he had the chance to go to New Orleans this past week. For the most part he was just in court and the airport, but he got to wander around the French Quarter a little bit.  At a restaurant he ordered some type of meat and they asked him if he wanted it as a po' boy.  He said rather than try and figure out what they were talking about he just fessed up and told the server that he had no clue what she was talking about.  :)  Turns out it's a traditional Louisiana sandwich, filled with any variety of meat, usually fried.  Exciting stuff. According to people we've talked to since he got back he also should have sought out pralines and beignes. Next time.

The French Quarter

 

We've decided to make Saturdays our field trip day.  The kids have been bugging us about going to Disney World since we pulled into town, but we wanted to take some time to ask around and figure out what really is the best way to do it (season passes, black-out dates vs not, etc).  We decided to start out with one of the few free things to do at Disney World - Downtown Disney.  For the most part it's just a bunch of shops and restaurants, but there were a lot of other fun things too.  There was a LEGO store with life-size Lego sculptures, even a huge dragon in the water.

Outside one of the shops Jessica and I posed with some princesses.

The boys found something a little more manly to pose with (Jessica had to pop in too).

Inside parents could spend $250 at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique to have their little girls get their hair done and dress up like a princess.  Yeah, we didn't do that one.  :)  Jessica was happy just to pose with a few things inside (she has a very long wish list now for her birthday and Christmas).

They had just a couple of simple rides for kids that we went on - a train and a carousel.  Chandler was in heaven on the train. He's still pretty much obsessed with anything train-related.

The poor little guy was NOT a happy camper when he had to get off.

But a ride on the carousel helped calm him down a little.

 

Jessica loved it too.

We went into the Rainforest Cafe and T-Rex Cafe to look around.  They had some fun displays.

Jessica is pretending to be scared of the dinosaur behind her.  Chandler really was kind of scared of the dinosaurs so he and Michael went back outside for a bit.

On our drive back home it was around 100 degrees and we were melting.  But it didn't take long for clouds to start gathering and by the time we were home we had a downpour and dime-sized hail.  We were just happy for the quick temperature drop... and the fact that the hail didn't dent our cars.  Apparently it just gets worse as hurricane season gets closer.  I love thunder storms, so no complaints from me.

 

And that was our fun weekend.  Don't hate us, just visit us.  We'll play with you too.