kittylady1972
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Reminiscing....
I love to reminisce about old trips. Each of them of course holds some special memories. So in thinking about minigolf and the suggestion about Winter Summerland I thought I'd try to find the trip where we last visited Winter Summerland. I had somehow thought it was a November or December trip...but nope turns out it was May 2009
Oh wow...but they were small. At the time, the youngest was four, my oldest son was 9 and my girl was 6 years old. Not the clearest photo but you can probably make out that my youngest son's face looks a bit torn up. Here it is closer:
I refer to this as parenting fail. My husband and I were standing outside the Mexico pavillion at EPCOT, sipping on some adult beverages and watching the kids play...on the steps. I think we had just made a comment to some young adults walking by about how the kids were fine...when my youngest son took a header off the steps. Blood...everywhere. Yep wasn't pretty...so needless to say any photos beyond this day for that trip didn't look too great for him.
Thankfully this one was taken earlier in the trip:
This was our one and only time doing 1900 Park Fare for dinner. We enjoyed it...the character interaction was PRICELESS. My youngest son had no interest in taking photos during dinner, but when the evil stepmother tells you you will take a photo with her...you just do it as shown here. The stepsisters were also great. It was a fun meal.
This was also I think our only time visiting during the Flower and Garden festival, and the photos of all the topiaries around there are just so nice. We had really nice weather and it was our first stay at Animal Kingdom Kidani Village via DVC as it had just opened up that month. We LOVED the Kidani pool and spent a lot of time there. In fact, I think it was actually unseasonably hot for early May...and I don't think we had ANY rain that entire trip. Yep...not even the afternoon Florida t-storms came through. It was a bit crazy.
We had SO many character photos that trip...it was pretty nice.
So I guess we took a break one evening and decided to try mini golf...which we LOVE...and headed to Winter Summerland at night.
I got very few photos...since it was evening...but the one posted above and this one:
I recall we had fun on the course...and I'm not sure which one we played. However it definitely is one I would love to revisit and this Thanksgiving seems like a good time. My family is all into REAL golf...meaning mom, dad, brother, SIL all golf regularly and in fact my SIL and brother met on a golf course where she was working. My little family of five just loves minigolf and we are very competitive about it. So yes it would be a nice place to kill some time if necessary.
This was also a trip where my daughter at the time had been taking one of many drugs we were trying with a pediatric neurologist to help with migraines she had been suffering from for a while. The drugs had terrible effects on her...I have a photo where she clearly looks miserable and I can recall many meltdowns beyond just normal kid stuff. She didn't do well and not long after we would get her off that medication and she'd be a happy kid again.
There were fun times mostly...she dance in the street during the Move It, Shake It parade with the characters which I got on video.
https://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=6000a377004daff4&sid=8QbuG7hq0cMzO
(I don't know if the link will work or not...let me know)
Anyway I would end up returning alone for a solo trip another time in May. It is a great time to go, crowds tend to be a bit lower than the busy times and weather can be nice...but sticky of course.
Oh and if you want to read more, in my siggy here the May '09 (5/09 BCV & AKV) is a link you can click to read about the whole May 2009 trip!
Hard to imagine that the trip will be here in just 17 days for us!
I love to reminisce about old trips. Each of them of course holds some special memories. So in thinking about minigolf and the suggestion about Winter Summerland I thought I'd try to find the trip where we last visited Winter Summerland. I had somehow thought it was a November or December trip...but nope turns out it was May 2009
Oh wow...but they were small. At the time, the youngest was four, my oldest son was 9 and my girl was 6 years old. Not the clearest photo but you can probably make out that my youngest son's face looks a bit torn up. Here it is closer:
I refer to this as parenting fail. My husband and I were standing outside the Mexico pavillion at EPCOT, sipping on some adult beverages and watching the kids play...on the steps. I think we had just made a comment to some young adults walking by about how the kids were fine...when my youngest son took a header off the steps. Blood...everywhere. Yep wasn't pretty...so needless to say any photos beyond this day for that trip didn't look too great for him.
Thankfully this one was taken earlier in the trip:
This was our one and only time doing 1900 Park Fare for dinner. We enjoyed it...the character interaction was PRICELESS. My youngest son had no interest in taking photos during dinner, but when the evil stepmother tells you you will take a photo with her...you just do it as shown here. The stepsisters were also great. It was a fun meal.
This was also I think our only time visiting during the Flower and Garden festival, and the photos of all the topiaries around there are just so nice. We had really nice weather and it was our first stay at Animal Kingdom Kidani Village via DVC as it had just opened up that month. We LOVED the Kidani pool and spent a lot of time there. In fact, I think it was actually unseasonably hot for early May...and I don't think we had ANY rain that entire trip. Yep...not even the afternoon Florida t-storms came through. It was a bit crazy.
We had SO many character photos that trip...it was pretty nice.
So I guess we took a break one evening and decided to try mini golf...which we LOVE...and headed to Winter Summerland at night.
I got very few photos...since it was evening...but the one posted above and this one:
I recall we had fun on the course...and I'm not sure which one we played. However it definitely is one I would love to revisit and this Thanksgiving seems like a good time. My family is all into REAL golf...meaning mom, dad, brother, SIL all golf regularly and in fact my SIL and brother met on a golf course where she was working. My little family of five just loves minigolf and we are very competitive about it. So yes it would be a nice place to kill some time if necessary.
This was also a trip where my daughter at the time had been taking one of many drugs we were trying with a pediatric neurologist to help with migraines she had been suffering from for a while. The drugs had terrible effects on her...I have a photo where she clearly looks miserable and I can recall many meltdowns beyond just normal kid stuff. She didn't do well and not long after we would get her off that medication and she'd be a happy kid again.
There were fun times mostly...she dance in the street during the Move It, Shake It parade with the characters which I got on video.
https://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=6000a377004daff4&sid=8QbuG7hq0cMzO
(I don't know if the link will work or not...let me know)
Anyway I would end up returning alone for a solo trip another time in May. It is a great time to go, crowds tend to be a bit lower than the busy times and weather can be nice...but sticky of course.
Oh and if you want to read more, in my siggy here the May '09 (5/09 BCV & AKV) is a link you can click to read about the whole May 2009 trip!
Hard to imagine that the trip will be here in just 17 days for us!