Never a Dull Moment

It’s been awhile since we took a weekend trip, so we headed over to Orlando a couple weekends ago. We stayed in a 2 bedroom condo next to Disney – Brayden was super excited to have his own bedroom and to sleep in his own big bed. We arrived Thursday night after I got off work. The next morning we took Brayden to Magic Kingdom for his birthday! He had a great time on all the rides. And he’s old enough now that he recognizes most of the characters. When we first got there Mickey and friends had just started performing in front of the castle. He instantly recognized Mickey Mouse!! We then started going on some of the rides. The lines for everything were soooo long, but Brayden was a trooper. The average wait time was about 30 minutes and it was HOT! But there was enough going on around us that he was able to stay pretty entertained. We didn’t go up and let him stand next to any of the character – he was still a little unsure about it. As we were leaving for the day we stopped to watch one of the little short parades. And we were right about the characters. Brayden was watching Pluto from about 20 feet away and didn’t notice Clarabell Cow come up to him. He turned and he screamed the most petrified scream I have ever heard. It took him about 15 minutes and a sucker to calm down. We then headed back to the condo to go to the pool and the lazy river! It was nice to relax after a long day at the park. Ryan and I had a great time watching Brayden play in the sidewalk fountains. He would go up to them and bend down to see where the water went and then all of a sudden it would shoot up and hit him in the face! He thought that was hilarious.
The next day, Saturday, we hung around the condo resting and napping until dinner time. We then went over to the Swann Hotel and had dinner with some of the Disney characters. Again Brayden had the “you know what” scared out of him. He was fine watching Pluto and Goofy from far away but the instant they were 5 feet from him he would scream. So the nice lady who guides the characters around had to keep Pluto and Goofy away from our table. But she did have one of them sneak up behind Brayden so we could take a picture of him with them without him knowing. After dinner we headed over to the boardwalk and enjoyed a little “concert” that was going on. Brayden got right on the grass and danced with all the kids. We walked around and watched a few of the street performers, Brayden chased a few ducks around and then we tried to watch the fireworks from Epcot, but we couldn’t see them from where we were standing. We then took the last ferry boat back to the Swann Hotel. Brayden always enjoys riding the ferryboat.

We had to check out Sunday, so we got packed up and went and had breakfast and then decided to go miniature golfing. Brayden shot a whole in one with Ryan’s help on the first hole. But after that he didn’t want anything to do with hitting the ball, he only wanted to walk around carrying his ball and club. In the middle of the game he decided that he now wanted to “bigger” club. So Ryan and I resorted to using the “little” club to finish out the game. We had a good time. And of course I ended up winning! For some reason I always end up beating Ryan no matter what we do; miniature golf, video games, bowling… you name it! Ryan and I love to get out and take trips/vacations and it looks like Brayden enjoys it just as much as we do! Although Brayden was non-stop and he wore Ryan and I out, hopefully we can do it again sometime soon.