The Big Golfball

We left Wednesday, May 18th, and had an early 7am flight. Sounds simple, but we actually drove from Cincinnati to Dayton to take a nonstop flight to Orlando. The nonstop part was nice, but, as always, there is some drama when the Belschners attempt to fly:) Apparently, airports are VERY busy in the early hours of the morning and we literally got through security just as they were making the last boarding call for our flight. We made it to the gate just in time, but the car seats we brought for the kids caused some drama (i.e. at baggage check they said they were airline approved, on the plane they were telling us they weren't). So, we ended up just gate checking them with our strollers-not really a big deal we were just nervous for Spencer to fly without a car seat. He did pretty well, though he kept unbuckling his seat belt!

Relaxing to a movie-what else but Toy Story 2!

Avery chose Toy Story 3-she was absolutely perfect on the plane!

"It's the big golfball!" This is what we heard from a very excited Avery every time she saw the Epcot ball:) Since our flight was so early in the morning, we loaded up our rental van, checked in at our hotel (pics of that to come later) and took off to Epcot for the rest of the day!

Beth, you would have loved all of the beautiful flowers!

We waited patiently to meet some characters-snacks helped keep the kids occupied in long lines:)

Gotta start with Mickey!

Pluto:)

Big hugs for Minnie!

Donald-the whole Mickey Mouse Clubhouse gang was here (except Daisy).

Goofy. Spencer was like this most of the time meeting characters. He was in complete awe and it was so cute. He would blow them all kisses, he was very star struck:)

I was disappointed that we missed the topiary festival they had by only 1 week:( But, luckily, they still had some spread throughout the park so here are the few we were able to see.

Grandpa and Avery in front of Minnie, Mickey, and Pluto!

Lighting McQueen and Mater.

Tigger.

Rafiki and Simba.

Pumba.

Timon.

Towards the later part of the day we had one princess getting a bit cranky. Honestly, we all were really. We were tired from being up early, going all day, and trying to adjust to the heat! But, I think this face is precious. She was actually pouting because she wanted ice cream really badly and we weren't finding any for her fast enough!

I don't ever drink, but the heat had me sucking down a berry margarita! It was good and a nice way to end our first day!!

Three more parks and the beach to come!