Part 3: Chill day and Legoland 8/18-19

After a huge Sunday at the park we had planned a flex day on Monday to chill and regroup and fo non park things. Brent was able to sleep in and Noah and I swam and hung at resort in the morning. We did go to an outlet mall and out for supper at Cici's pizza. We found that one years ago before they had ever been up in MN and now that the MN ones closed it is fun to go for a tradition reasonable pizza dinner. Ended night at Downtown Disney. 

The Swan hotel across the canal from us

Our lake

Pool time. Noah had water proof camera with us for water slide etc but don't have pics downloaded yet. 

My "bling" borrowed from Ali for the trip. All beachy. ;)

Cici's Mac n cheese pizza is Noah's favorite

Design a shirt that Noah got

Lego store

Took bus to Swan and walked to Boardwalk

Tuesday my mom stayed back at the resort and us 3 drove to Legoland. We had never gone before. It is the old Cypress Gardens property so about an hour away. 

It was fun to see how they converted the park over to lego themes. Rides and characters but the landscaping is still pretty and they still have a Cypress Gardens section and water ski shows.  

Noah got to take a class experience too. With robotic vehicles that he had to program to do certain tasks. Harder than it looked. 

We all got a little heat sick towards end of day so didn't stay to close the park out but we did have a fun day. We would recommend that park for any Lego fans! 

We came home to Mousekeeping having made up Noah's pull out bed. Cute. The guys started putting together the lego set souvineer. 

Here is the set completed at home. It was a scene from The Lego Movie. 

Road Trip Part 2: arrival to WDW and first Park Day 8/16-17

We drove all day Sarurday from Conover NC to Lake Buena Vista FL. We could tell partway through the day the change in temp as it got hotter and dense humidity hit. We were nearing FL! 

We drove through the Disney gates and got checked in our resort in the evening. We were staying at Disney's Boardwalk Villas this trip though Disney Vacation Club.  Pretty to arrive in the evening when things are all lit up. 

We didn't just chill at the resort though we were trying to get to Downtown Disney for a bit for late dinner and Guest Relations to get our Annual Pass vouchers activated and exchange some old Tickets my mom had saved up and see if they could get her matched to some of our booked Fast Passes. We got a wonderful Castmember at Guest Relations and got it all done. Love good guest service!! Quick late dinner at Earl of Sandwich and a couple shops then back to the resort after a very long day. Everyone was exhausted. 

We had been in touch with Brent's brother Cody and he was unsure of his work schedule so very last minute he added into our Sunday plans. He drove over from Sarasota (he moved there for work last November) and met  at Boardwalk Sunday morning and we packed up my mom's rented scooter into the car (highly recommend Orlando Scooter Rental scootorlando.com) and off we went to Magic Kingdom!  

Cody had never been to Disney before so had to get his ticket and show him the park. It was very hot and medium crowded but we got on quite a few things despite not an early start. Noah bought Uncle Cody a Goofy hat to celebrate his first visit and he was a good sport and wore it proudly. He was able to add into our dinner reservations also at the new Be Our Guest restaurant. It is in Beasts Castle in the new section of Fantasyland. They did a great job on the theming and we all liked our food too. The heat took its toll but we did have a fun day. 

Some shots from our park day: 

(Tradition to visit our brick outside MK turnstyles) 

Splash Mountain

7 Dwarfs Mine Train

Be Our Guest...we got seated in the beautiful ballroom. Looks just like in the movie. 

Desserts...try the Grey Stuff...it's delicious!