The Chisholm's Trail

*I know i still owe you christmas and such, but work has kept me SWAMPED

here's a quick preview of the first day of our Disney Trip to hold you over.

We completely Lucked out this year

and found out that my National Sales Meeting was going to be in Disney!

I was So excited since Brandon has been asking to go back since we left.

Although we were afraid he'd think this was a yearly trip...

We left before the conference on Friday AM and got into FL around 10:00AM

Went to the Hotel, checked in, and I had forgotten when booking a food reservation the woman asked

"are you celebrating anything on this trip?"

So I thought for a moment and said "um my son's birthday is in Feb"

So apparently that justified him getting birthday balloons and a card from Mickey upon arrival

(although they gave them to me since he was in another room)

The cast member didn't look so excited to give it to an adult.

After leaving our carry on's we hopped onto the bus and head to the Magic Kingdom!

I had read online the Christmas decorations were basically done so I was pleasantly

surprised to still see some up!

Main Street

Mickey Mouse Wreath

Got lunch and headed over to Pirates of the Caribbean

Then we went over to Fantasy Land to B's favorite Ride

Got Fast Passes for Buzz Lightyear

(inside the ride, I think Disney would frown upon this picture)

Then we headed over to Fantasy Land and got on Winnie the Pooh.

you can see how many people were in line when we got there. It was great

Although this ride has the best stuff to keep kids busy while waiting.
below is Brandon touching a screen of "honey" to see whats behind it

Just as we are getting into our Honey pot there was an accident.

Kenn had dropped his glasses onto the track below. he wanted to

just reach down and get them, but that's not allowed. The cast members

looked panicked. they had to shut the ride down and get a member to go

down with some kind of stick to get them. It took a good 5 minutes to do this

quick task. The people behind us looked VERY annoyed, and one woman

gave kenn some advice to "put them in your zippered bag next time"

So any time we were on a ride that stopped brandon would go

"Oh no someone dropped their glasses!"

Brandon and Tigger on the ride

Brandon's other favorite Ride~

One of our favorite rides! The haunted mansion! Complete with new waiting graveyard!

you can play the piano and it shoots out mist

a book shelf you can push in a book and other ones will pop out at random

walking through Liberty Square

We saw this crane. These are my Nature shots of the trip.
There were a TON of birds, must be that whole migratory thing.

Found a hidden mickey while waiting for the flag ceremony below

                                We did not make dinner reservations because I thought it would be easier,
                                 apparently not. Without them you are stuck with basically park fast food.
                                  We did find a fish and chips type place in Liberty square that everyone liked.

                                         Disney castle at night with Christmas decorations. It was beautiful.
                                         We stayed to watch the Light Parade because the event I had planned
                                          on Monday would be during it and so I didn't think we'd get a good view.
                                         Best part is we left right after and missed all the rush to the buses since
                                         Everyone was waiting for the fireworks after.

I think this was Brandon's favorite thing at night. Better then fireworks

Got the bus back to the hotel with no problems.

Got to our room and our bags from the airport were there waiting.

Gotta love that Disney service! all 3 feel asleep with no problems!

As an early Birthday gift my parents took Kenn, Brandon and I to the Adventure Aquarium in NJ. It has a beautiful view of the Philly skyline across the street.

First thing we came across was this.