Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Epcot Fun!

These dinosaur pictures are from the exhibit with Ellen Degeneres Bill Nye The Science Guy on Energy.

This was a fun game where the kids carried around a big cute piggy bank and they learned how to earn and save money for a goal that they set. Austyn chose a vacation and Zoe chose a bedroom make over as a goal. 

While waiting to talk to Crush from Finding Nemo we got up close to some sea creatures.

We explored the aquarium.  It was very large.

We took a tour that taught us about the earth and how people are finding ways to grow animals and plants on it with little or no harm to the environment. 

This is a special floor area where you can stand on strange instrument boxes and listen to the sounds of the instruments. It was a great place to blow off some steam.

It was a very long day!!



Tie Dye Fun!

Funny faces and some snacks while we wait to tie dye some t-shirts.

Zoe chose a Mickey Mouse design and Austyn wanted a colourful Swirl design.

 Here are the shirts finished.

Magic Kingdom Fun!

 
We didn't take as many pictures as we normally do because we don't even know how many times we've been to Magic Kingdom. No matter how many times we've been, it's still magical! The pictures we took were of the things we don't normally do. It was much easier to go through the park this time with the kids a bit older. We were able to do more.

 
 
The Swiss Family Robinson House (two pictures above).

 
These pictures (above) are of us exploring Tom Sawyer Island. The guns made a shooting noises.

This was outside the Haunted House.

While going through A Small World I sat with Austyn and named all of the countries I recognized for him.

Indy car fun. We never miss this and as you can tell one picture is in the daytime and the other is after the sun set. We went to the Indy cars twice!

This is one of the oldest and most viewed exhibits created by Walt Disney himself about innovations in the Family Home over time (two pictures above).

Hula-hoop fun while waiting to eat.

Minnie's house.

Micky's house and pluto's house in the back yard.

The famous fireworks around Cinderella's castle.

Late night parade.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Nature on a Florida Resort!

 
  
  
 These baby ducks were a delight to have around. They were tame and would chase us when we walked near. When we first arrived we counted nine but by the time we left there were only four left. One older couple who fed them every morning said that when they first arrived there were twelve ducklings but they think that the turtles eat them. 


 
  
  
Every year we feed the ducks on our resort. Above are the ducks marching in a row to get us to feed them. I thought that they walk so funny. They really look like they are on a mission. LOL!

  
This bird liked to purch on the Canadian Geese decoys. 

  
  
  
There were many different birds here. I didn't capture all of them on film. We saw some large ones that even reminded us of ostriches just outside the gates of our resort. There was also one duck that looked more closely related to a loon and would dive under the water for minutes at a time and a timid duck with a fan of feathers on it's head. 


 
Many of the trees were almost bare (likely the time of year) and most of them had these plants growing off them. 

  
The flowers were coming out on the bushes. They didn't seem affected by the cold weather.

  
Austyn wanted me to capture this cloud. It looked looked a skeleton.  

We had a tornado warning where we were but you wouldn't have known it. The torrential rains of Florida seem normal and apparently tornadoes can approach quickly and with little notice.  I was on the balcony reading, relaxing, and listening to the rain. I was completely unaware of the possibility of a tornado. 


“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” ~ Walt Disney