We returned to the Magic Kingdom for a special halloween party. With treat stations setup all over the park, we did our best to bring in a big haul of lollies. Tim and Emma ventured all over the park until midnight! We also saw the special 'Boo to You' parade and the halloween fireworks. Here's the video of the night (click here if you can't see the video) And here are the photos!
After all that trick-or-treating this is how much candy we got!
After accidently sleeping in and being woken by room service, we hopped onto a Disney bus to visit the Magic Kingdom.
This is one of the most popular parks in the USA and it showed - there were a lot of people! Luckily we had fast passes booked and got to go on several rides including the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. You can see that a lot of the park is decorated for halloween, even the Mickey heads are pumpkins.
We visited this park several times so stay tuned for more!
Here is a video of some of what we saw (if you can't see the video click here).
Some photos of our time at the park. Fortunately there are Disney photographers all over the park so there was always an opportunity for all of us to be in photos!
The day finally came! Another Christmas is here and it was very exciting. To get in the festive mood we went into the city to get a look at the Christmas lights which you can see in the video. Only a couple of days after that and it was Christmas day. I was very lucky to get many cool things that I wanted.
I hope you all had a great Christmas!
If you can't see the video below, click here to watch it.
After much anticipation, the day had come. Finally our trip to the USA had begun. With a delay in departing Sydney and a missed connecting flight in Dallas, it took us a while to finally get to Orlando.
Fortunately I was getting pretty good at waiting.
We eventually checked into Disney's Art of Animation Resort at 1:30am! As you can see there was no one around at that time.
We stayed in the Cars section of the resort and it certainly felt like we'd been transported to Radiator Springs.
The waffles had Cars characters on them.
The resort area looked like a scene from the movie.
These guys were from the Finding Nemo part of the resort. Occasionally you can hear them all yelling out "Mine, mine, mine!".
The pool was really good. It even had music playing under the water.
Here's a video of our arrival and what we found around the resort (click here if you can't see the video)
Stay tuned for part 2 of our USA holiday where we visit Disney's Magic Kingdom...
Now that Christmas is just over a week away, we thought it would be a good time to go and check out some of the good Christmas lights in the area. While we were in Caringbah for Emma's school presentation (she did really really well by the way!), we stopped in to see a special street with some amazing Christmas lights. It was like the whole street was battling against each other.
Now that the weather is warming up it is a good time to do more exploring outdoors. Just recently Dad and I went down to Cronulla and checked out the rock pools. I thought these were really interesting.
But before we did any exploring we had to get a drink and relax on the grass. You can see how relaxed I was.
Then we went down near the rocks and the water. I felt like doing a bit of posing down there!
Back in June, Dad and I went to a special expo called Supanova. It is called a 'pop culture' expo and has a lot of things like movies, comics and video games. Lots of cool stuff. There was one part of it that was setup like a warzone and it was called the Nerf Battleground. It was cool because you could pick one of the guns, grab all your darts and then go and find a good spot.
Here's a short video of what it was like in there:
There was also an area where they taught you how to draw different kinds of characters. I even got to dress up as one of them as you can see here (I'm an evil eraser!):
