Disney - Hollywood Studios

After the Animal Kingdom we headed over to Hollywood Stuidios. Unfortunately the weather didn't hold off for a long visit but we hit the highpoints!

In front of the Hollywood Studios "Magic Hat."

Liz and I went on the studio tour.

And visited "Disaster Canyon!"

And saw the famous water tower with ears.

And then ran into Sully!!

But my favorite ride was the Tower of Terror!

And then the rains came and poured we left the park.  We ate dinner at celebrity chef Cat Cora's restraunt on the boardwalk called Kouzzina.  It was awesome.  By far our best meal of the weekend and we felt like the prices were pretty reasonable too, even for Disney.  After dinner we caught this beautiful sunset over the resorts!  Awesome dinner to cap off our really fun trip.  Super thankful for Elizabeth to coordinate even though she didn't get to go.  Also so glad to spend a long weekend with Erin and Liz.  It had been far too long!

Disney - Animal Kingdom

Our second day at the parks we hit up the Animal Kingdom in the morning and headed straight for the Safari ride.  We saw more animals this time around than Darren and I did so that was neat.  Rhino.

Giraffe up close and personal.

Elephants.

Lions.

On the Primeval Whirl roller coaster ride.

With the Exhibition Everest ride in the background.

While looking at the tigers, we saw their 30 seconds of activity when this tiger jumped out of the water and chased the second tiger around their pen.

The Tree of Life, the center of the Animal Kingdom.

Disney World - Ride Pics

We had so much fun riding the rides, even those non-trill type rides.  On the Tomorrowland Speedway Erin kept trying to get me to rear end her and Liz.  I came close but avoided the accident!

   

The three of us on the Astro Orbiter.

And my mad photographing skills with Cinderella's Castle in the background.

Lookout below, Liz!

Some of our biggest laughs of the weekend were looking at our ride pictures.  Erin couldn't be more serious on the Buzz Lightyear ride even though I won this round!

And here I'm grinning like a fool, Liz is scream laughing and Erin is just screaming!

One of our last rides of the evening was Dumbo.  We couldn't leave the park without one ride with Dumbo.

Disney World - Teacups

Erin was so excited to ride the teacups to see just how fast they could make us go.  Erin and Liz were the spinners and I was the photographer.  I have never been so dizzy in my life trying to take pictures with the world spinning so quickly. I thought they were going to have to help me out of the ride! These are some of my favorite pictures from our trip!

Disney World

After Epcot we headed over to the Magic Kingdom.  What I wanted to do most of all at Disney was go to the Magic Kingdom.  To me, it is the pinnacle of being the happiest place on earth

Cinderella's Castle.

 

Before riding Space Mountain four times!

We were at the park for the fireworks and light show. A few of my pictures turned out pretty nice.

Disney - Epcot

The first park we hit was Epcot which was less than a five minute walk from our hotel, The Beach Club.  Spaceship Earth is the symbol of Epcot.

We took just a few pictures of it and us with it.

 We did get to see a few characters while we were there.  Here is Belle with the Beast.

 Also while we were at Epcot was the HGTv flower and garden show.  All of the Disney characters were presented in topiary and flowers.