florida wrap up

i am FINALLY finishing my post about Florida. you can see my first two posts HERE and HERE. I just canNOT leave a story or an event unfinished. to refresh everyones memory, christmas 2009 i was given by my brother and his wife Lisa a trip to visit them in florida. in september 2010 i went. i was lucky to be the first in my family to meet the newest member of the family, Alyssa who they adopted that summer. she is so funny and such a cutey. just look at her! it was a great trip and i enjoyed such sunny weather. i hadn't yet posted my photos and videos from the theme parks. i rode most rides with my brother, {except Space Mountain where Lisa rode with me cuz jacob is too chicken...i learned why. i will never ride that ride again. i thought i was going to die. i rode it when i was younger at disneyland and apparently forgot how crazy it is.} and park hopped with him. i was able to get into all the parks for free! a friend of theirs who works for the park let me use their friends pass. so great. so here is the end to the trip, of course much i did is left out of this wrap up.

she was for sure making up this story that she went on and on about. it was comical.

look! there she is! THE castle. when i was in germany, i went in the real castle that the disney castle was inspired by. so that was neat to see it after being a part of the real castle.

my first disneyworld ride, aladdin! that sneaky camel sprays water on you. then it was on to the jungle boat ride, pirates of the caribbean, big thunder mountain railroad(my favorite), haunted mansion...so on and so on.

jacob never knew there was the haunted mansion at disneyworld(he goes all the time to disneyworld!) till we were standing here and saw the mansion across the water. we for sure had to get on that ride. i remember that one vividly from disneyland when i was younger.

after we spent many hours at the disney park, we zipped on over to animal kingdom. jacob and i rode the   Mt. Everest. OH MY WORRDDD. i am not one to go on a scary rollercoaster, so this is def the biggest one i have gone on. jacob and i were put in the FRONT of the ride so we experienced it all first. oh man it was soooo crazy scary and awesome. a video of it below.

jacob and i on the Mt. Everest ride. the part were it gets dark at 1:27 we are basically hanging upside down. SO SCARY. it was a blast though. this video still makes me laugh.

im not one to meet or take photos with disney characters, but i sure feel happy inside when i see the characters.

we got to animal kingdom towards the end of the park hours, they were closing the parks early because of a halloween party there that night, so when we got on the safari ride we were this tour drivers last ride so he stopped and took his time around the ride. so that was pretty lucky. i guess usually they just drive on past all the animals.

then we rushed over to Epcot Center. this was my third park of the day! i was soooo warn out. but it was great. we didn't stay long, we tried the different sodas from around the world, pictured below, rode a boat over to "japan",  rode the boat back and left the park.

there were some nasty sodas and delicious ones. it was all you can drink, how cool.
well there you have it, florida.