So we figured in today's economy (and the Reinhardt economy) instead of packing everyone up to fly somewhere for vacation, we would purchase year passes for Disney World. They offer discounts for Florida residents, so it costs just about what 4 planes tickets would have! The beauty is Disney is exactly 2 hours from our house. It's an easy drive and in 1 and 1/2 movies (for the kids) we are there! We had been telling the kids for the past year and a half that we would go and last week was our big trip..... (forgive me - it's a lot of pics)


Brooke waiting patiently to get there...

Us finally there on Disney's Mainstreet...

Here is Lauren in the fairy gardens at Epcot. She fell in love! (did I mention we did 4 parks in 3 days? exhustion.)
Again at Epcot...

Brooke and Lauren finally got to meet Mickey!

The gardens at Epcot were so beautiful!

Here is one of the army men from Toy Story (taken in the Pixar section of Disney's Hollwood Studios)

Lauren with Goofey at Disney's Animal Kingdom..

Waiting. Lots of waiting.

Lo and Grams.... We coulnd't have done it without Grandma. As it turns out, Lauren needs her own adult chaparone all to herself (yes, she did wonder off and got lost once. i was briefly terrified)

Can I just say, night photography is really hard....I tried during the fireworks show.

All in all it was a wonderful trip and we hope to head back down at the end of the month. Now it's on to keeping kids entertained during the real spring break this week....