{"id":1995,"date":"2012-01-08T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2012-01-08T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T23:19:37","slug":"why-dont-we-all-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1995","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t we ALL go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least that’s what we eventually decided. <\/p>\n

Abbey’s good friend from Florida, Angelina, invited her to go to Disney with her family to celebrate her 16th birthday. At first we thought “how do we GET her there”? It’s a long way to FL, and it seemed a waste to have Randy drive her there and back by himself. <\/p>\n

So, we ended up making it a quick family vacation to Magic Kingdom. Dylan’s first time, Lainey’s second, who knows what time for the rest of us. We had yearly passes when we lived in Jax, and took advantage of that quite well. <\/p>\n

We arrived Thursday night, big kids had a quick swim in the heated outdoor pool, and then we all headed to bed. After a quick breakfast at the hotel on Friday, Angelina’s family picked up Abbey and we all headed to the park. <\/p>\n

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It was odd, having just 5 kids with us…the group shots are missing something! Or someone. <\/p>\n

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They still had their Christmas decorations up, and were playing Christmas music. We were told it was the last day for that…<\/p>\n

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Payton’s favorite attraction<\/p>\n

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Obviously…same shot we took back in April 2010! I think he’s changed the most since our last Disney trip. <\/p>\n

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Zurg captured Dylan! <\/p>\n

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Tea Cup ride…given my dislike for anything that spins (and knowing full well that Randy would spin it as FAST as he possibly could), I took pictures. <\/p>\n

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Payton does a perfect Stitch voice, so he and the blue guy had a conversation. <\/p>\n

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I think Lainey has gotten over her fear of characters…finally. <\/p>\n

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January 2012<\/p>\n

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April 2010<\/p>\n

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He almost got it! <\/p>\n

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I caught the boys doing a little dance to polka music. <\/p>\n

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Then, Randy found a friend in the Haunted Mansion graveyard. Will the goofiness ever end?<\/p>\n

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This wall played music when you touched the different instruments…very cool!<\/p>\n

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Sadly…<\/p>\n

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I must…<\/p>\n

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post all…<\/p>\n

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of the stocks pictures. <\/p>\n

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And, then it was nighttime. <\/p>\n

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Electric parade :)<\/p>\n

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Then, we headed up to Main Street for the fireworks… The castle was so pretty, draped in Christmas lights! <\/p>\n

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Yes, there’s a big bush in front of the castle. We did the best we could to find a spot to watch. Apparently, everyone in the free world was at Disney that day. So much for lower crowds in January!<\/p>\n

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The fireworks were put to music…it was really beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Finally met up with Abbey! Her and Angelina have been great friends for years, I’m glad to see that hundreds of miles haven’t changed that. <\/p>\n

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All 6, together at last. It was a fun, hectic, incredible, exhausting day. Disney, you really know how to throw a party. <\/p>\n

We crashed at the hotel Friday night, and got back on the road the next day. But, not before meeting up with some special friends of ours in Orlando. Pictures of that next…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least that’s what we eventually decided. Abbey’s good friend from Florida, Angelina, invited her to go to Disney with her family to celebrate her 16th birthday. At first we thought “how do we GET her there”? It’s a long way to FL, and it seemed a waste to have Randy drive her there and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}