Our Party of 5: Disney Day 4

Thursday started at Epcot with the Finding Nemo ride. Hayes loves Nemo but has a funny obsession with scuba divers. There are lots of large aquariums around the Nemo ride and we managed to find a scuba diver in one of them. To say he was overjoyed is an understatement I finally had to pull him away very upset so we could see the rest of the park. We also did Turtle Talk with Crush. All 4 of us enjoyed that! They have kind of play area where the fake sharks from Finding Nemo are (Hayes' favorites) so we spent a lot of time there and went back a couple of times that day. I also ended up taking the boys on Nemo again while Lee rode a big person ride. Next we rode a really cool ride that shows you all the plants, fruits and vegetables Disney is growing to sustain their parks. Lee and I thought it was interesting...the kids thought it was boring. Next up we went to meet Mickey and his friends. We had to stand in a pretty decent line but the boys were excited. Hayes got the most (jump up and down) happy about meeting Minnie. I have no idea why he wanted to see her so badly but he was giddy and it was so cute. We got to see Mickey, Pluto and Minnie in one room so that was fun. We spent the rest of the morning wondering through Epcot and finding random rides in the different countries. In Norway we found a ride that had vikings and trolls and a little bit of a drop and we ended up riding it twice because the boys loved it so much. Very random but fun. After a lunch in Mexico we had pretty much done everything we could at the park so we decided to go back to the Magic Kingdom for a few hours before our dinner reservations. We rode rides, had a dance party and ate some ice cream (I'm pretty sure we had ice cream every day we were there.) before we took a boat to Epcot for dinner. We at at the Coral Reef restaurant where one wall was nothing but an aquarium. Much to Hayes' delight there were about 8 scuba diver swimming among the sharks and fish. After a long meal and realizing that we should probably take the kids to restaurants more often and maybe teach them some table manners we left. It was still pretty early so we decided to go to Downtown Disney. It was a very long trip because we had to be dropped at a hotel first then catch another bus to Downtown but we finally made it. We did some shopping and the boys were getting tired so we headed back to the hotel. We all went to bed sad that the next day was our last Disney day.

Side note: While sleeping with very squirmy kids isn't my favorite thing to do, it was fun for a week. I slept with Hayes and Lee slept with Price and every night Hayes wanted to fall asleep holding my hand. Price would literally curl himself around Lee to sleep as close as possible to him and one night he looked at Lee and said "It's like we are having a honeymoon". We died laughing and still laugh about it. Such sweet sweet family memories.

Hayes and his scuba diver