April 11, 2008 (Make-A-Wish)

WE HAD THE TIME OF OUR LIFE AT DISNEY WORLD!!!! ALICIA WAS SO EXCITED, SHE HAD THE BIGGEST SMILE ON HER FACE EVERY DAY, I SO WISH WE DID NOT HAVE TO COME BACK HOME AND ALICIA COULD GO TO DISNEY EVERY DAY OF HER LIFE.

BUT MY FEET ARE STILL KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE FIRST DAY DIDN'T GO AS WELL AS WE THOUGHT IT WOULD, ERIKA BARELY MADE IT THROUGH HALF OF THE DAY WITH ALL THE WALKING AND BEING SO FAR ALONG IN HER PREGNACY. BUT WE FIXED THAT PROBLEM AND RENTED HER A MOTOR SCOOTER THE REST OF THE DAYS WE WERE THERE.

THE FIRST DAY WE WENT TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM, WHEN ALICIA SEEN THE CASTLE SHE STARTED JUMPING UP AND DOWN, AS SOON AS WE WENT THROUGH THE CASTLE MICKEY AND MINNIE WERE JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE AND ALICIA KEPT SAYING "LOOK MEE-MA TWO MICKEY MOUSE" IT TOOK US ALMOST THREE DAYS TO GET HER TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND THAT ONE WAS MINNIE MOUSE NOT MICKEY MOUSE.

THE FIRST RIDE SHE WANTED TO DO WAS THE DUMBO RIDE, ERIKA RODE IT WITH HER AND AFTER THE THIRD TIME WE FINALLY GOT HER TO MOVE ON TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SHE ALSO LOVED THE TEA CUPS, ERIKA WAS TAKING CARE OF LITTLE ANSHON SO I GOT THE PRIVLAGE OF RIDING THIS ONE WITH HER, THE TEA CUPS WERE EVEN HARDER TO PULL HER AWAY FROM, I HAD TO PROMISE WE WOULD COME BACK AND RIDE AGAIN AFTER THE FOURTH TIME OF RIDING IT. AFTER A COUPLE OF OTHER RIDES WE CAME UP TO THE LITTLE MERMAID, ALICIA WAS IN HEAVEN, SHE GOT TO HAVE A SPECIAL VISIT WITH HER SINCE SHE WAS WITH MAKE A WISH, IT WAS SO CUTE BECAUSE ALICIA KEPT ASKING HER TO GO SWIMMING. FINALLY AFTER ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH ARIEL I HAD TO CONVINCE HER WE WOULD SEE HER AGIAN. BY THIS TIME IT HAD STARTED RAINING (WHICH IT DID ALOT OF WHILE WE WERE THERE) SO WE FOUND A DRY PLACE TO SIT AND REST AND WAIT FOR THE PARADE OF CHARACTERS. ALICIA ALSO LOVED THE PARADE, WHEN IT WAS OVER SHE KEPT SIGNING "MORE PLEASE" SO WE WENT BACK TO THE TEA CUPS SO SHE COULD RIDE AGAIN AS I HAD PROMISED HER. BY THIS TIME ERIKA WAS HAVING A VERY HARD TIME AND HAD EVEN TAKEN HER SHOES OFF SO WE TOOK ALICIA TO SEE A COUPLE OF THE 3-D SHOWS AND WENT TO MEET THE BIGGER KIDS AND ANSHON AND WENT BACK TO GIVE THE KIDS A WORLD VILLAGE FOR SOME MUCH NEEDED RELEAVE ON ERIKA'S FEET.

THE KID'S VILLAGE WAS AWESOME, THEY TREAT THE KID'S SO VERY WELL THERE!!!!! THE FIRST NIGHT WE WAS THERE WE HAD JUST MADE IT IN TIME FOR DINNER, THEN THEY WERE CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS IN THE CASTLE SO WE TOOK ALL THE KIDS TO SEE SANTA (IN APRIL) THEY ALL GOT A VERY NICE GIFT AND WE TOOK ALOT OF PICTURES THEN WENT TO THE ROOM TO GET SOME MUCH NEEDED REST.

THE 2ND DAY WE WENT TO EPCOT, WE RODE THE RIDE WHERE WE WENT IN THE BALL FIRST, ALICIA GOT SCARED IN THE BEGINNING BECAUSE IT WAS DARK, BUT BY THE TIME IT WAS OVER SHE WANTED TO DO IT AGAIN, I FINALLY DECIDED IF I KEPT LETTING HER RIDE EACH RIDE THREE OR FOUR TIMES THAT WE WOULD MISS ALOT SINCE THERE WAS SO MUCH TO SEE SO I TOLD HER ONLY TWO TIMES AND SHE WAS OK WITH THAT.

ERIKA DID SO MUCH BETTER WITH THE SCOOTER, SHE SAID SHE FUNNY RIDING IT BUT SHE DID NOT CARE BECAUSE SHE FELT BAD FOR HAVING TO STOP SO EARLY THE DAY BEFORE AND LOVED TO SEE ALICIA SO HAPPY.

ALICIA LOVED THE BUILDING WHERE ALOT OF THE CHARACTERS WERE, WE GOT TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE FRONT OF EACH LINE AND WE GOT PICTURES WITH ALL OF THEM, THIS WAS STILL THE 2ND DAY AND IT WAS BEFORE SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WERE NOT TWO MICKEY'S SO SHE KEPT CALLING MINNIE MICKEY AGAIN. AFTER WE TOOK PICTURES WE TOOK HER TO THE NEMO RIDE, (JUST IN TIME BEFORE IT STARTED RAINING AGAIN) WE HAD NO PROBLEM LETTING HER RIDE THIS ONE MORE THAN ONCE SINCE IT WAS INSIDE AND WE HAD TO WAIT FOR IT TO STOP RAINING.

AFTER THE RAIN SLOWED DOWN WE WENT TO THE HONEY I SHRANK THE AUDIENCE SHOW, ALICIA DID NOT LIKE THIS ONE TO WELL, SHE GOT SCARED WHEN THEY BLEW UP THE DOG SO SHE TOOK HER GLASSES OFF AND KEPT SAYING "DOG BITE" IT WAS SO CUTE WE ALL JUST LAUGHED AT HER.

WHEN IT FINALLY STOPPED RAINING WE ALL DECIDED TO GO BACK TO MAGIC KINGDOM TO SEE SOME OF WHAT WE MISSED THE DAY BEFORE WHEN ERIKA HAD TO STOP EARLY BUT BY THE TIME WE TOOK THE MONARAIL TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM IT STARTED RAINING AGIAN AND THE KIDS WERE SOAKED SO WE DECIDED TO GO BACK TO THE VILLAGE AND TRY AGAIN THE NEXT DAY.

WHEN WE GOT TO THE VILLAGE WE HAD DINNER AND STAYED IN THE ROOM SO THE KIDS COULD REST, ABOUT 9:15 THERE WAS A KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND IT WAS MRS MARY, THE MAYOR CLAYTONS WIFE, WHICH IS A SIX FOOT RABBIT, SHE HAD COME TO TUCK ALICIA INTO BED. ALICIA WAS SO HAPPY BUT SHE WAS NOT GOING FOR THE RABBIT MAKING HER GO TO BED, SHE TOLD MRS MARY FOR HER TO GO NIGHT NIGHT, SO ALICIA AND A SIX FOOT BUNNY BOTH GOT INTO BED, IT WAS SOOOO CUTE.

THE THIRD DAY WAS BY FAR ALICIA'S FAVORITE. WE WENT TO UNIVERSAL STUDIO'S AND THE FIRST CHARACTER SHE SEEN WAS DORA. I DID NOT EVEN HAVE A CHANCE TO LET THEM KNOW SHE WAS WITH MAKE A WISH SO SHE COULD GO TO THE FRONT BECAUSE ALICIA RAN STRAIGHT UP TO HER. I TOOK ALOT OF PICTURES, IT WAS SO HARD TO GET ALICIA TO LEAVE DORA, THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED ME WAS SPONGE BOB NEXT DOOR, WE TOOK PICTURES WITH SPONGE BOB AND THEN WNT ON THE JIMMY NEUTRON RIDE, (WHICH WAS A MISTAKE, ALICIA GOT A BIG BRUISE FROM THAT SHOW). NEXT WE WENT TO THE SHREK SHOW WHICH ALICIA LOVED, I THOUGHT SHE WOULD BE SCARED BECAUSE THIS ONE WAS ALSO 3-D BUT SHE LOVED IT AND KEPT HER GLASSES ON THROUGH THE WHOLE SHOW. AFTER THE SHOW WE WENT AND TOOK PICTURES WITH SHREK AND FIONA.

NEXT WAS THE TWISTER SET, ALICIA LOVED THAT ONE ALSO, I AM VERY SCARED OF STORMS BUT IT WAS NOT THAT BAD, ALICIA WAS NOT SCARED AT ALL. WE THEN CAME TO THE MUMMY WHICH IS A FAST AND SCARY ROLLER COASTER, I DECIDED TO HAVE ALICIA SIT THIS ONE OUT AND WENT TO GET HER A DRINK WHILE THE REST RODE IT, EVEN ERIKA, THAT WAS A HUGE MISTAKE ALSO.

THEN WE WENT IN THE DISATER SET, IT IS A MOVIE FILMED WITH PEOPLE CHOSEN OUT OF THE AUDIENCE, WHEN THEY ASKED FOR A GRANDMA TO PLAY A ROLE, ERIKA AND ANSHON BOTH JUMPED UP AND DOWN AND POINTED AT ME, I COULD OF KILLED THEM!!!! I DID GET PAY BACKS THOUGH WHICH I WILL EXPLAIN A LITTLE LATER.

FINALLY WE CAME TO BARNEY, WHICH WAS THE BEST. ALICIA AND I WENT TO THE SHOW WHILE THE BIGGER KIDS WENT ON THE BACK TO THE FUTURE RIDE, ALICIA LOVED IT, AFTER THE SHOW THEY HAD ALICIA STAY AND GOT A SPECIAL VISIT WITH BARNEY. I ALMOST CRIED. THEN HERE CAME THE RAIN AGAIN SO WE HAD TO HEAD BACK TO GIVE THE KIDS A WORLD VILLAGE.

THE NEXT DAY WE WENT TO THE ANIMAL KINGDOM WHICH WAS MY FAVORITE. I LOVED THE SAFARI THROUGH AFRICA WHERE THE ANIMALS COME RIGHT UP TO THE TRUCK, IT WAS VERY COOL. WE CAME ACROSS A JAMAICA SHOW WHERE THEY WERE DOING A DANCE AND PULLING PEOPLE FROM THE AUDIENCE AND THIS IS HOW I GOT MY PAY BACK ON ERIKA, IT WAS SO FUNNY TO WATCH HER OUT THERE DANCING WITH HER BIG BELLY, I WAS JUST SO GLAD I GOT THE CHANCE TO PAY HER BACK.

THAT DAY IT DID NOT RAIN THAT MUCH SO WE GOT THE CHANCE TO GO BACK TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM TO SEE SOME OF WHAT WE MISSED THE FIRST DAY. ALICIA RODE THE TEA CUPS AND DUMBO RIDE AGIAN, BUT HER FAVORITE WAS THE WINNIE THE POOH RIDE AND THE SNOW WHITE RIDE. BUT AGAIN IT STARTED RAINING SO WE WENT BACK TO THE VILLAGE.

THE LAST DAY WE WENT TO SEA WORLD,WHICH WAS KIND OF A DISSAPOINTMENT, WE DID NOT GET TO SEE ANY OF THE SHOWS BECAUSE WE HAD TO GET THERE ONE AND A HLF HOURS EARLY TO GET IN EVEN WITH BEING WITH MAKE A WISH. WE ALL KNEW ALICIA WOULD OF GOT IMPATIENT AND BAD IF WE WAITED SO WE TOOK HER ON ALL THE LITTLE RIDES AND WENT BACK TO THE VILLAGE AND TOOK HER SWIMMING.

WE ARE ALL EXHAUSTED BUT IT WAS WELL WORTH THE MEMORIES WE WILL HAVE FOR EVER. I WILL POST THE PICTURES I TOOK JUST AS SOON AS THEY ARE DEVELOPED ( I TOOK OVER 300 )

MEE-MA