William the last day.
Brianne at the Royal Luncheon.


We just got back from Walt Disney World last night around midnight. We spent 5 wonderful days there! We stayed at Fort Wilderness in one of the Outpost cabins, which was an adventure in and of itself.
With the trip there were many high and low points. Our cabin was very nice, but the location was horrid. They should have named our resort the Disney Dismal Swamp instead of the Wilderness, because that is truly where we were. They had literally filled in dirt within a wetlands and located cabins there. We were even visited by two possums fighting underneath our cabin one night. The only other negative part of the trip, was it took an hour to an hour and a half to get to any of the parks. At most resorts you take one bus directly to the parks, but in our case, we had to take a bud to a bus to a ferry to get anywhere. It would not have been so bad, except for the kids being so young, they were already tired by the time we got anywhere.
While at Disney, William discovered Mickey Mouse for the first time, and fell in love with him. He amazed us by taking his autograph book, which we almost did not even get him, and running up to Captain Hook, giving him a hug, and getting his autograph. He did this for all of the characters he saw throughout the park. He also loved the Pirates ride, the Speedway cars, and the Mickey 3-D movie. Bryan said he kept reaching his hands out to catch everything in the movie.
Brianne loved the princesses. When we first saw Ariel, she would not get near her, but she also ran up and hugged all of the other princesses afterwards. She did not want to get any autographs, but rather wants to use her princess autograph book as her scrapbook. She loved the flamingoes, the Pirate ride, going down the slide at the pool, and her favorite thing was having lunch with the princesses in the Royal Castle our last day there. She was very sad when we had to go get on the airplane to go home.
Bryson hung in there for the whole trip. He was exhausted for most of it, and I felt pretty bad for him. He learned to fall asleep right where he was, but still smiled for everyone. He was a delight. He loved the pool as well and of course eating everything.
Bryan's favorite was the Animal Kingdom and seeing Brianne eating lunch with the princesses. He does not like theme parks a lot, so the long days were a lot for him, but he hung in there.
I just loved being there. I thought it was great!!! I'm already ready to plan our next trip in a few years.
It was great having Mom with us. I do not know how we could have done it will all of the kids so young without her.