The Mims and Johnson Children at breakfast.
(They slept all night in the car!)
We kept on driving and driving, and finally we arrived at the Florida Welcome Center. Yay!
Reluctantly posing at the Welcome Center. I always stop here when traveling to visit my college girls, and I always make my kids make a picture here.
We got to our hotel, checked in, unpacked the cars, and were at Disney's Hollywood Studios by 3:00 PM. After 2-3 hours of broken sleep, the adults were ready!
Do we look sleep deprived?
By Tuesday night we were joined in our hotel by Lynn's sister, Lesley, and her family and our friends Greg and Esther and their family. We were a party of 22! We had matching shirts to wear each day, and we had the best time! This is the 5th Disney trip that Lynn and her family and my family have made together. This is the second time Lesley has joined us, and the third time for Esther and her crew. There is definitely never a dull moment with all of us!
Leanna and her family and Stacee (both are Jimmy's cousins) and her family were also at Disney World for four of the days we were. We met up with them some at the different parks. That made us the occasional party of 32!
I do not have all the wonderful pictures of the week on my laptop yet. Uncle Kelly obtained a Disney Photo Pass for us. It has many, many pictures on it, but I don't know yet how to download them to my laptop. Jimmy took pictures with his camera and phone, and everyone else took pictures with their phone as well. I think we all uploaded them to our Disney dropbox....I just need to figure out how to access them! Anyway, I have a few pictures to share from my phone.
The men and their backpacks!
Kelly always brings his army backpack, and we always bring our navy blue Lands End backpack with "Johnson" monogrammed on the back. Sadly, I forgot to pack our backpack! So I bought this cute Mickey Mouse backpack in the hotel gift shop. Everyone loved Jimmy's backpack! :)
This is on the Primeval Whirl ride at Animal Kingdom. We were bumped, jolted, and slung around!
Sam, Jimmy, and Clay
These are our new Disney shirts for this year.
Lynn and I rode Splash Mountain three times in a row on this morning.
We should have stopped at two! After this picture we got drenched!
The very last day of our vacation Olivia, Brian, and Julie joined us! Their college is just 70 miles from Disney, and they had no classes because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We went to Magic Kingdom that day. It was the first time Julie had ridden Splash Mountain in 8 years! (Normally when we go to Disney World in January, Splash Mountain is closed for refurbishment.)
Jimmy, Julie, and Me
I'll share more highlights as soon as I figure out the picture deal.
Lynn and I have gotten this Disney vacation thing down to a science. Esther has joined right in with us wholeheartedly, and I think we wore Lesley out! :) But it was all so much fun!
That looks like fun! We had planned to go to Disney in 2017, but now we may be taking another trip (kind of a once-in-a-lifetime one) so Disney may get pushed back to 2018. If you have any great tips on packing or planning for Disney, I'm sure that would be a blog post that MANY people would love to read. I'm honestly overwhelmed even thinking about that trip, but I know my children will love it.
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