May 14th- Launch day, up at 430am to catch our bus to the launch site. Its amazing how you spend all day getting there and waiting for something that takes off in less than 5 minutes and then to spend 3 hours getting back to your hotel. It was totally worth the all day wait. We got to spend some time at Kennedy Space Center looking around, then off to the causeway to see the launch. It was a perfect day, little warm, but there was a nice breeze & sunny. Logan did manage to take a little nap in the heat before the launch. He really enjoyed watching the "plane go up". I thought it was going to be real loud & scare Logan, but not so loud. Logan wasn't bothered by the noise. Got some good pictures & video of the launch. Once we got back to our hotel, it was supper time. So we went to Medieval Times, really love the show, food was great as well.
May 15- Sea-world, WOW! what a fun day. I really enjoyed Sea-world, loved seeing all the sea animals. Our long list of animals are, walrus, sea lion, dolphins, whales, otter, puffins, penguins, manatees, stingray, polar bear, sure there was many more. Logan really enjoyed looking at all the dolphins & whales (which he calls fish). It was pretty warm, but with all the shows we got a little sprays of water & sat in shaded areas. Didn't any rides, Logan was not big enough & there is not many.
May 16- Disney Animal Kingdom, One of my favorites. I went on an awesome roller-coaster called Expedition Everest, what a great thrill ride. Lots to do at this park, we took a safari ride to look at giraffes, elephants, tiger, lion, alligators, hippos, bats, rhinos, many types of birds, & many other wild animals. We took a train ride, seen some shows. I think Logan's favorite was seeing the elephants & hippos.
May 17- Disney Magic Kingdom, my #1 favorite. Lots, lots of rides. Finally got to go on space mountain (it was being worked on when we were there on our honeymoon). I have to say I didn't like it all that much, little too bumpy for me. Highlight of this day was Logan meeting Mickey & Minnie Mouse. His face when he seen them was priceless. I thought he might get scared or cry, but he walked right up to them and smiled, he even kissed Mickey on the nose. So proud of my little man. After leaving Mickey it poured on us, so we needed to find a dry place to wait out the rain, which we did had some cool to drink. We rode the teacups, Doug had it spinning so fast I wanted to barf (throw up), Logan loved every minute of it.
May 18- Epcot, not a whole lot to do here, we rode test track & Doug did some motion simulators rides ( those make me sick). Doug had gotten a cold, so he was not feeling the best. We did what we wanted to here and headed back to the hotel early. Ordered pizza in and went to bed early.
May 19- Disney Hollywood, best ride there is Toy Story Mania, you have to go right when the park opens get a fast past & come back many hours later to ride it. Its that good. Most times the wait time was 60+ minutes. Its a good ride. Another day of doing what we wanted to do and then back to the hotel early. I think by this day we were pretty tired of long lines, the heat, & walking. Also our vacation was coming to an end, we were gonna have to start the drive home.
May 20- time to drive home.spent the whole day driving.
May 21- We stopped at Shiloh National Military Park Shiloh, TN. It was real cool the see "The Battle of Pittsburg Landing". The battlefield was well preserved. We couldn't stay very long we needed to get going so we could make the Naturals baseball game at 7pm in Springdale, AR. The game was fun, Logan enjoyed watching some baseball and cheered with us. There were fireworks after the game and Logan cried and looked away the whole. Guess he was scared, July 4th will be interesting this year. Stayed in a nice hotel near by and finish our drive home.
May 22- We arrive home around 5pm, it was good to be home, but was not looking forward to unpacking, laundry, grocery shopping, but it was time to get back into the real world. We took some many pictures, that it would take another month to post them all. I will pick out a couple of our favorites to share. I have a huge book for anyone to look at when we see each other.
I apologize for taking nearly a month to get his posted.