An Amazing Adventure!

We started the winter vacation with a trip to a galaxy far far away, then played in the snow, had Christmas and then a trip to Florida...It was a long and amazing week!  Pre-christmas traditions of cookies and gingerbread houses were almost forgotten in the shadow of the big trip. The kids didn't know we were going to Disneyworld until Christmas day.  The each opened a box of balloons with various letters on the balloons.  It didn't take them long to figure they had to unscramble all the balloons to spell out the world.  It took them longer than expected but after about 15 minutes they solved it and were amped to learn that we would leave in a couple of days.  We left early...like people were still coming home from the bar early, and drove to the airport.  The flight was smooth and we were in Animal kingdom on a safari by noonish!  We were in the world's happy place for five full days visiting Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Epcot and then back to Magic Kingdom. We closed up the parks each night except Epcot on the fourth night.  New Year's Eve found us with two fireworks shows over Cinderella Castle as well as a Tinkerbell on a zipline from the castle top.  Tinkerbell was also our last experience at Disney and she chewed out Ella for being sarcastic/sassy and tried to force her into a time out! It was an awkward moment for sure.  The kids kept journals of their trip too and spent time before meals, bedtime and waiting in line to write in their journals.  We hit the big rides and shows in all of the parks and some of them multiple times.