I should start this series of Disney World posts by saying that we drove to Florida this year.  I’ve been dreading this drive for a year now…and rightly so.  It was not fun.  Especially the drive there.  I am, however, thankful that the kids did awesome and didn’t complain at all.  The drive there lasted 21 long hours.  I’m not going to complain, because we eventually found out that all the traffic was due to a major accident…so at least I was only stuck in traffic and not involved in the accident.  However, it did add 4 hours to our trip and we only went about 10 mph (when we were moving at all) for 150 miles.  Ok, now on to the fun:

We spent our first day at Hollywood Studios.  We went to see the Playhouse Disney show, which was awesome.  Sam was beside himself watching Little Einsteins, Tigger and Pooh, Mickey and friends, and Handy Manny!  (Excuse any terrible pictures.  You know the drill: no flash photography.)

We also saw the Little Mermaid Show, which Magei loved.

One of our favorite rides was the new Toy Story Mania ride.  It took two hours of standing in line to get on!  It was totally fun, though.

We had lunch at Pizza Planet where Nate and Sam played video games while Magei and I did a little shopping.

We also did the back lot tour and got to see see special effects, props, set designs, and lots of other behind the scenes stuff.

That evening, we walked down Main Street USA to see the festival of the dancing lights.

We had dinner at the SciFi Drive In.  The kids thought this was awesome.  The whole restaurant is set up like a drive in movie and you get to eat in convertible cars.

Magei and Sam also got to meet Lightning McQueen and Mater, which was the perfect end to our fun day!

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