Disney

I haven't written in a while. It has been a hectic couple of weeks. I spent a week at Disney with Hunter, Carissa, Travis, Jonda, Cassandra, and Raymond. It was a wonderful fast paced week. I am so glad that my first visit to Disney was orchestrated by Jonda. I would not have been able to have ridden or seen as much had I had to go it alone.

Hunter and Carissa, both, had a wonderful time. Hunter barely met the minimum requirements to ride some of the wilder rides, but he made it and rode them. He was scared on most of them to some extent, but as soon as the ride was coming to a stop; he was saying, "ride it again!" Carissa was just a smidgen shy of the wilder rides, but managed to squeeze by for one of them. She liked it so much, she wanted to go again. The second time around, they would not let her. This did not set well with Carissa at all.

Tower of Terror: Hunter and I were searching on the Disney website and came across the Tower of Terror ride. Over everything else, this stuck in his mind. This ride was all he talked about for two days before we left for Disney. His Pawpaw could not make the entire trip. He arrived on the third morning. He was suppose to arrive at about 10:00 Thursday night, but due to delays did not arrive until 4:00 am on Friday morning. I carried Hunter down to let Odie into the building. He was sound asleep until the elevator started up. He half opened his eyes, looked over at his Pawpaw, and said, "Now I can ride Tower of Terror!" We have his ticket and a picture of him in front of the Tower of Terror. I think this was the highlight of his trip. He rode it with us, held his hands over his ears, but was ready to ride again as soon as it was over.

The hand over the ears was another cute thing that both Carissa and Hunter did. Carissa is sensitive to the firework noise just like her father was at her age, so I understand the hands over the ears for the noise. I don't understand how it helped them not be afraid from seeing scary stuff, but they both did it on several rides throughout our trip. Cassandra and Travis took turns getting our fast passes for the day, as soon as we entered the park for the day. It was amazing how many rides we were actually able to ride. I was also amazed at the shows we went to see from feeling mice at your ankles, bugs running under your seat and sticking you in the back, to bubbles from the ceiling and water spray in your face.

After the anticipation of this trip, I would be sad that it was over if not for Beth's upcoming wedding and my fall cruise on the horizon to work towards.