April 16, 2010

Let the Magic Begin

We have made it! After months of planning our family is in Orlando, at Disney World, to celebrate Eli turning 4 on Sunday. I am lucky to have a wonderful husband who has planned this entire trip for his big man's bday. Today we took in an awesome Orlando attraction known as WonderWorks - or as my kids called it, the upside down house. It is a lot like the Discovery Place, packed with science experiments and Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not like moments. Some of the highlights include:

The building which is obviously a spectacle in itself!
Wearing goggles and standing during category 1 hurricane winds (64 mph).
Stretching out on a bed of nails..... Chapel LOVED this....

And using the system of pulleys to raise off the floor.

For lunch, we dined at Downtown Disney's T-Rex Cafe, which boasts realistic dinosaurs that move and growl and meteor showers which get all of the mechanical dino's excited at once. Eli wore his new bday present, his dinosaur shoes, to commemorate the occasion.
Conor and Jude were not as enamored as the big kids with this attraction. As a matter of fact, they acted as if they were terrified one of the dinosaurs were going to swoop down and eat THEM for lunch! Conor cried and cried, and she is very loud when she is all worked up. And Jude clung to me like a little monkey. He would hardly even look up at the dinosaur we were sitting directly under. Which, by the way, would roar every so often and get Conor wailing all over again! By the end of lunch, and three meteor showers later, the babies had loosened up a little. They must have realized the dinosaurs were not going to get any closer to our table. Conor actually started growling back and smiling a tiny smile. Jude finally made eye contact with a dinosaur; however, he never did muster the courage to sit on his own. He remained hesitant and insisted I hold or carry him the entire time. Poor babies, they need to get accustomed to all this action or the theme parks are going to seriously overwhelm their senses....

Chapel trying to comfort her sister.
Conor giving the dinosaur one of her famous looks...
Eli's Sabor Tooth Sundae.





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