Disney Adventure

Our adventure started this morning when we headed to Downtown Disney. We walked around and wen t throught all of the shops with Brooklyn strapped in the carrier. Tyson carried her so she was facing out while strapped to his chest and I carried the diaper bag, that we overpacked again. It was a chilly today so Brooklyn and I both had jackets on.

There were candy shops everywhere! It all looked so good but was so expensive. Our favorite shop of all was the Lego store. Outside the building they had huge Disney characters made out of Legos. The first statue we came to was from the first Toy Story movie, when Buzz and Woody were strapped to the firework. The statue had a cloud of smoke from the firework and at the bottom was the remote control car. All of the statues looked like real toys.

The next one we came to was Snow White kissing Dopey's head on a hill. There were birds in the tree behind them. They had another statue with the other dwarves from Snow White. They were all mining for jewels like in the movie. It was so fun to see the cute 1-2 foot dwarves.

Next, we went into the building to see what was inside. They had several stations where you could sit and build things with all of the Legos and then they had walls of Lego kits yu could buy and one wall of single Legos, in every color, that you could buy. It was the coolest thing we'd ever seen. Tyson got to see several Star Wars sets and built models, which I think he really enjoyed. There were also a huge statue of Buzz and one of Woody. Those were a big hit with a lot of the kids. After looking around in the store, we went outside to look at what else they had. We found a section where you could build Lego cars, and then one of the employees would take it and put it on their racetrack so you could compete with other people. The racetrack was similar to pinewood derby tracks that the scouts do.

And the best statue was from Sleeping Beauty!! It was the scene where Prince Charming was fighting against the dragon. It looked so real, I loved it! I can't imagine the amount of time it took to design and I can't imagine the amount of time it took to design and build all of it.

And the final Lego structure was when you walked out the back of the store. It was a huge statue of the Lock Ness Monster in the water. The statue was enourmous. I couln't believe the detail in all of the statues and it made me want to find my old Legos and get to work on something fun like that. It was such and WONDERFUL, FUN store to go through!!

When we were finally done with Legos, we continued to go through the other shops. We found the one with all of the princess stuff and counldn't believe the prices they charged for things. Princess dresses cost over $60 and the toys were expensive too. As we walked through the store, we found a hair parlor where the girls, in their princess dresses, could get their hair done up like a princess. Parents could easily spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars in under an hour. I was glad Brooklyn wasn't old enough to want to get all of that. This Disney store had tons of the characters from oher movies too. I couldn't believe how many they had. We decided to buy Brooklyn a set of all of the princesses for her to play with. She seemed to really enjoy them. She was smiling when we handed her the box.

So excited!

We went through a bunch of other stores and found a lot of things we really enjoyed. There was one store called "Once Upon a Toy" where the whole front of the store was Potato Head Pieces. They had pieces to build Darth Vador, Storm Troopers, Cruella Devile, Minney or Mickey Mouse, and tons of others. In the rest of the store, there were places where you could build your own lightsaber. There were Potato Heads dressed up as Star Wars characters and tons of others. We had a ton of fun building different things.

  

There were a bunch of other stores and restaurants that were really cool. One of my favorite restaurants was the T-Rex. There were dinosaur bones surrounding the building and a huge T-Rex. I love the sign posted just below it!!

We went inside the restaurant and found out there was a gift shop inside too. When you looked in the restaurant, there was a giant octapus with jelly fish as lights. It was very interesting.

The next restaurant we went into was The Rainforest Cafe. There were aquariums all over and different animals throughout room. Brooklyn's favorite was the cheeta that roared and moved its head. Her least favorite was the giant frog hanging from the wall. She did enjoy seeing so many different animals, even if they weren't real.

We got back in the car and gave Brooklyn her princess dolls and you can tell how much she liked them from this next picture!

All-in-all, we had a really fun day. Brooklyn got to explore something totally new and colorful and enjoyed everything. I'm glad we got to get out and get some fresh air and spend time as a family!