Saturday, August 15, 2009

Walt Disney World

No clue who these people are, but this was the slide at the pool at the resort
Greerson had a birthday party at the Coral Reef restaurant at EPCOT

The weary travellers take a break before a show at Animal Kingdom

Cinderella's Castle at night

"Little Chef" from Ratatouille visits guests at the French Restuarant


Christa and her mother enjoy lunch in France

The Port Orleans French Quarter

EPCOT by night


Ursula was selling jewelry


Greerson checks out the Legos at the Lego shop in Downtown Disney



Stone Mountain, Georgia was cool, but a huge tourist trap

This is the atrium at the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta.


We visited Atlanta one more day and toured the Atlanta Zoo, a Natural History Museum and Stone Mountain. On Tuesday we drove to Orlando, Florida. Wednesday we met Christa's parents at the airport and started a five day stay at the Port Orleans French Quarter resort at Walt Disney World. I had commented that I wanted to see the fireworks at EPCOT since I had never seen them. Well, now I can say I have seen them, we were there three nights for "Illuminations". Actually we watched them only one night, but while we were eating (outside) we observed them a second night and the third night we were at Nine Dragons in China and the lights dimmed indicating it was beginning so we rushed to finish dessert and grab a monorail to the Magic Kingdom for the fireworks over there. Considering that fireworks indicate the closing of EPCOT we made pretty good time to get to the Magic Kingdom in time for their show.
Some highlights of our trip were riding Mission Space and Soaring at EPCOT. Greerson really enjoyed Star Tours. Christa and Daryl did the Test Track the last day and had a blast! We ate in Japan, America, China and France and under the living seas at the Coral Reef. We all had a great time and really enjoyed ourselves. Oh, one other eating hightlight was the restaurant in France and a visit from the Rat in Ratatouille (can't remember how to spell it). The rat was on a cart and would squeek and talk to the Matre'd who was wheeling him around. He was put off with us when he discovered we had a dog for a pet.

On Sunday we took Christa's parents to the airport and headed over to Cape Canaveral to the Kennedy Space Center. It was cool to see an actual space shuttle on the lauch pad. From there we went and packed up the camper and drove to Chattahoochi, Florida, then onto Pensacola the next morning to the National Naval Air Museum. It was really cool!!!!

Then we stayed in Gulf Shores, Alabama and stopped in Mobile, Alabama to see the battleship Alabama and spent the last night in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We had a great trip, but were glad to pull into Waco and be home.

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