Alright, back for more.
I may actually go through this faster than you wrote it!
You may WRITE more than me as well! 
But see, you are giving me something to do each morning instead of an update!
Empty Main Street.
I've never actually seen it myself, but it looks BEAUTIFUL. Honestly, I love what they do for construction. I didn't even NOTICE it until it was pointed out to me...and that wasn't until after I finished one trip and was going on another. So I didn't see it at all my first trip. Fooled me, apparently. Beats seeing construction.
I think the scrims are brilliant. We all the know the work has to be done and I think the detail that goes into covering that up is just amazing!
Your family is so beautiful! Although, yikes, is that what 11 looks like? They're so grown-up! Tell me that it just looks that way because they're just really pretty and that they're definitely still little kids. Right? RIGHT?
I'm only freaking out because I don't know how my kids got to be as old as they are. It's like I took a long blink or something, and there they were, little people. My kids need to stay babies! (Okay, one of them is over five. Which is not a baby. But it is to me! And my "baby" will be 3 this year. I swear she JUST turned two. It doesn't bother me that she's turning 3, it bothers me that I know that if 2 to 3 is so fast, 3 to 13 is going to go by just as quickly! I joke that when they're sullen teenagers I'm going to have another baby so someone still loves me. It may be true...when DD turns 13 I'll be 36, so you never know!) Oh, and I'm rambling again. Sorry...
Uhm yes, that is what 11 looks like, although I'm told Savannah looks a little more mature. Leslee is actually 12, 13 in May, so...
it flies by. Seriously, just hang on b/c I'm in SHOCK that my first baby is turning 18 this summer and we are talking college. It went WAY too fast! I miss when they were little, but we really are very close and I've enjoyed all the stages they have grown through, it's fun to have a political debate with my boys or snuggle up and talk girlie stuff with Savannah. 
My son tells me that when we go to Disney he wants me to order one of those chocolate mickey waffles for him whenever he gets hungry. Think we can send him into Crystal Palace alone if we watch him through the window? "Whenever he gets hungry" is going to add up...
I should have put syrup on mine. I liked it, but it was my first morning, I think I was trying to be "good" and didn't use syrup...when I had syrup on the regular ones at Ohana the last day, I could not get enough they were so good!!!
Peter Pan is so great. It got better once I was no longer holding an infant that I was afraid would jump off my lap into the abyss. I worried about that with both kids. They've both been adventurous, to say the least.
I've actually never been at rope drop at MK. DHS, yes. And I've seen it from inside at AK when I was there for EMH. The wall of people scares me.
It's not super pleasant, so I'm glad they have discontinued it at DHS, I think it was the worst there with the stampede to TSM.
Philharmagic is amazing. How could you have missed it the other times? My son tells people he doesn't need a wand for magic, he can just use Mickey's magic. And then he gets really serious and tries to conduct. And the other kids all think he's crazy, because most of the homeschool kids around here haven't been to Disney. Nor do they play video games. He's really odd man out on the things that he loves! Poor kid.
I have no idea how we missed it on the other two trips! I'm so glad we finally did it! Oh we have homeschoolers in our homeschool group that are like that, no tv, no video games...we do what we like and enjoy what we enjoy, I'm not big on restricting enjoyable activities! I don't see how in our technological world, how it's beneficial to withhold something that is going to give them experience with technology in the future. My boys played games (still do) TONS and they are both very proficient in computers and technology! My oldest is talking about a computer science or engineering degree, I can't figure how restricting him would have been a good thing! Oh look, we're even, I'm rambling now! 
I like space mountain, but I always think I'm going to hit my head. Which is crazy, because I'm 5'2".
I didn't worry about my head and I'm 5'10"!
You had a great place to photograph the parade with the castle in the background like that! Beautiful!
Thanks!
I LOVE the shirts, by the way. We love tie-dye. I'm wearing a tie-dye sweatshirt as I sit here typing this!
They are one of my favorite things to wear at Disney! We had so much fun making them!
Aww, trekking around for fastpasses that don't exist is no fun. Stitch is just horrible. The FX alien encounter that was there before was great. And then they ruined it. When are they taking that down and replacing it with something...anything...that's better?
I really just can't believe that it was so crowded! I haven't eaten at CHH in awhile, but maybe I'm going to have to on my next trip. It all looks so good!
We really enjoyed it! Yummy food!
That camel is the bane of my existence. I'm like a cat, I really hate getting wet.
but see, this sounds like a GREAT photo opportunity!
My son cries every time we go on Jungle Cruise. He wants to drive that boat SO BADLY and they either don't ask, or don't pick him. Every time. Same thing with Turtle Talk with Crush. He gets SO upset that eventually he just doesn't want to do it anymore. It's really sad, actually.
Aww, poor guy! He'll grow out of that before you know it!
I like your window, it's beautiful!
Thank you! We had a lot of fun with it!
Oh, Boma. I always swear that I would never pay so much money for a meal, but I do every time. EVERY time. There is nothing I don't like about the experience of that meal. The hotel, the food, the atmosphere. It's all perfect. That flatbread has dairy in it, by the way. I only know because when DS was 21 months we took him and talked to the chef, and she went through everything that he could eat (he has a bunch of allergies) and then 10 minutes later she came out to tell us that she was mistaken and he couldn't eat the flatbread. My son had an entire PLATE piled high with nothing but flatbread sitting in front of him, and he had a piece in each hand. She was so flustered, and she took the plate, and then took the pieces from his hands...apologizing the whole time. Then she kept coming back to apologize and bring us other food to make up for it, and every time she came to the table he would shrug his little shoulders like this
and say, "...cracker?" Oh he could not have made her feel worse!
Yep, I knew it had dairy, but after he brought me a bowl of potato chips and that's it, I decided that it was worth the itchy ears and headache to just enjoy. I was actually pretty surprised they didn't bring me something else, but I think it just depends on the night and the chef...how busy they are, things like that. LOVE Boma too! Yum.
I love the idea of battery operated lights in your window! So cute!
Thanks! I had read on the DIS where people were bringing extension cords b/c the lights won't reach the outlet and I had these battery ones that I realized would solve that problem!
What a great way to end the evening! Swimming and fireworks! We could see fireworks from our room in October as well...it was magical!
Umm...so you said this was all fine and you like to talk about your trips, right? Because I'm talking quite a bit here! I'm enjoying reading, obviously!
Can't wait to read day 3!
Hope does say that I'm the leader of the Mouse-mafia! 
What a drive home you guys had!! I bet you won't try that again. 
-AmandaI will pop over now to read the PTR. I think we will be down around the same time as you in Febuary.
