Disney Getaway and Father's Day

The week after getting home from North Carolina, the boys and I had a three day getaway at a disney resort hotel! Since my nephew was visiting my mom from Ohio, my mom booked the room months ago. I suggested that I come and bring the boys and then we could split the cost of the room (soooo crazy expensive!!). I tried to talk the hotel up a lot to the boys, we are trying to convince them that going to a disney themed hotel and playing by the pool is all there is to a disney vacation. I wonder how long we can keep that up!!

We had a suite with a bedroom, living room, and two bathrooms in the lion king section of the hotel. There were so many cool life size decorations everywhere you went!

We walked around a little bit to explore the different parts of the hotel, and when we walked through the Little Mermaid section the boys were so confused by the decorations. Then I realized, they have never seen the little mermaid!!! Terrible parenting! :)

We saw two bunnies just hanging out next to the sidewalk:

Playing at the splash pad by the pool with their cousin Savino. He was such a good sport and let them pull him around and put him in "jail" on the different jets of water.

Then it was pool time! They wanted to swim in the pool at all times, all day. There were so many other kids there to play with, they loved it!

James wanted me to get a video of him pretending to give birth to a beach ball. Okkkaaaay then.


Later that night, they set up an inflatable tv screen to have disney movies by the pool. That night it was Tarzan. We stayed for the entire movie! Sometimes the boys got out to eat the popcorn the staff was passing around, the rest of the time they got back in the pool to swim.

The hotel had a big arcade, so the next morning we spent some time in there.

They both got really into all the driving video games.

After the arcade, we boarded the shuttle bus to take us to Disney Springs! (Just a very large disney themed shopping center). It was pretty hot and the boys really just wanted to go back to the pool, so we didn't stay long. The bus ride was half the fun!

We visited the lego store where the boys got to make their own mini figures, then we had lunch at a restaurant inside a large paddleboat. Instead of crayons and paper, they give kids these bendable straws called wikistiks and we had a lot of fun with them while we were waiting for our food.

This is how Rett gives thumbs up. He was approving of the chicken :)

We also stopped by Planet Hollywood to buy some light up cups we saw someone else with and James was very impressed to see the real life R2D2 they used in the movie!

We got to swim in the pool a little bit that night, but they ended up closing it down early because of a lightning storm in the area. I promised James that we would come to the pool the next morning as soon as they opened so that we could get a few hours of swimming in before going home. They both loved swimming in the morning, but Rett quit early because he was staaaaaarving (as usual). I asked my mom to bring him a snack since I couldn't leave with James in the pool. She brought him some Cheetos and it made his day, he was so happy!

It was only an hour and half drive home, so once we got back I went to go let all the animals out and check on everyone. After being gone for a few days, I was welcomed back by a fat rat snake in our quail coop! He didn't hurt any of the quail, but he obviously ate at least three eggs. James helped me get him out and put him in a temporary cage so that we could relocate him (if we just let him go he would come right back).

Father's Day started out great for Anthony because they cancelled all the early morning meetings he usually has to go to before church. So we let him sleep in and made him french toast for breakfast (his favorite). The boys also had cards for him and filled out questionnaires about him.

Opening his cards:

Group hug!! Baymax always jumps in when he sees that we are excited about something.

This is the tshirt I bought him for Father's day. It is so true!! Bees are all he ever wants to talk about!

The next day Anthony really wanted to take the boys to a boat ramp down the road to try to catch small creatures in our seine net. We realized pretty quickly that the net wasn't working right, so we gave that up. Anthony caught some bait fish and put some fishing poles out while the boys played around and explored in the water.

Seriously. This is my life every day.

James is getting pretty good at using the cast net!

We did catch one fish while we were there, this is Anthony reeling it in with the boys:

A catfish!

He seriously made this face just for the camera. As soon as I stopped holding up my phone he was back to looking normal. Crazy kid!