Our Disney experiences not captured by camera

I realized there were a couple things about our Disney trip that I didn’t get any pictures of at all… We saw Cirque De Soleil’s La Nouba show our first night there. What an awesome, amazing show that was. Both kids were sound asleep in the beginning of it, which turned out to be ok since it was a little scary at first. They both woke up during the amazing 8 year old girls with the Diablos. Addie watched them so intently and declared multiple times “I want one of them.” Ben pointed and waved the whole time he watched. There was never a dull moment. Never a moment when there weren’t at least 3 different acts/performances going on at once. Really just an awesome, awesome, show full of creativity, movement and music- three things that score really high with my children.

Another part of our Disney trip that I didn’t get any footage of was Guppy and his scooter. He rented a scooter Sunday through Tuesday, because his foot was killing him. There were many highlights of Guppy’s scooter use. Here are two of my favorite ones: At our day at Epcot, Muddy and I stood in line with Addie and Ben to meet the characters, while Brian, Guppy and Onkteb rode “Soarin.” Somehow serendipitously they were done with Soarin’ just as we were next in line to meet Mickey. They joined us in line, watched as the kids met the characters etc. The meetings and pictures took about 30 minutes. As we finished, Guppy went to get on his scooter. We met him outside, where he proclaimed that his scooter was missing. He had parked it right there and now it was gone. Brian asked about his key, which he promptly pulled out of his pocket. After searching around, his scooter was nowhere to be found. We all stood shocked that his scooter could’ve been taken, while he had the key. Muddy and Guppy went to go tell the park office and to get another one. Next thing I know, Onkteb comes out to say that he had found Guppy’s scooter afterall. Apparently, Guppy brought his scooter into the building and parked it. At the time it was scary, but in the end it was really funny that he had lost it.
My other favorite memory of Guppy’s scooter was when he had to make a turn at the Mickey’s Philharmagic show. It was an auditorium setting, and Guppy had to park his scooter and then sit in a row of seats. As he was steering his scooter to park it, he turned directly into the wall. SMACK. He drove the scooter into the wall!

Brian and I also took turns riding the rides that the kids weren't big enough for yet. Besides the Rockin' Rollercoaster, which rocked as usual, we rode "Escape to Everest" at Animal Kingdom. Woooohooo- totally fun!

This is us standing in front of Everest at Animal Kingdom. Note Addie and Ben with their maps giving us directions on how to find the massive snow-capped mountain in the middle of Animal Kingdom :)