Our Disney Vacation Adventure... Official Day 1!

We had hopper passes to all 4 parks, but originally thought it was to just 2 of the parks.  So we had already planned to start our day out at Hollywood Studios.

All the cast members greeted us on the way in with their Mickey Mouse gloves... so we got ours out!

It was a little cool this morning, but not too bad. Kai woke us up at 7:30am (5:30 Utah time)... I thought I was going to die.  Turns out it was harder on Kai than the rest of us....

First ride of the day... Tower of Terror ... big mistake! Kai was traumatized the rest of the day!

After the ride, Kai had a hard time smiling!

On our way to the Toy Story ride we stopped to watch a parade.

Keala got involved dancing with the cast.... she loved it!

Kai stood by and watched (still not feeling good).

Keala was in her element! She could have danced all day... or did she?!...

The ride was shut down right when we got there...but who's this standing around?

It was our friend... "Army Soldier'! (Kai's still in a bad mood).

After trying the Mermaid Show and Back-Lot Tour we took the kids to the Animal Kingdom Park.

Posing into the sun was not as easy as it looks!

We thought the Dinosaur Ride would cheer Kai up...

Where's Kai, he's missing from the picture?  Well, he's ducked down so far from sheer terror you can barely see him!  I can't help but laugh everytime I see this! Poor Kai!

We bombed again with that ride... so onto another...

We finally ALL liked this ride... (remind you of a famous 'Dumbo flying elephant' ride?)

Keala loved this backdrop!

Kai's still in a mood!

We sat down to eat a 'Turkey Leg' and a flock of birds came begging for free handouts.

Isn't that a little like 'cannibalism'... Keala thought it was cool.

We went to the famous 'Tree of Life' and looked for all the different animals carved into the truck... that was fun!

Then we went to the 'Bug's Life' show and it turned into the demise of my son.  He was just too freaked out from the beginning of the day to handle the puffs of air and pretend bugs poking your back and crawling under your butt.  I think this one put him over the edge.

We thought buying this dinosaur toy would help Kai out... it worked a little. He was just having a rough day!

We got on the animal safari ride and had to reassure Kai about a hundred times that there were no tricks or scary animals or suprises.  He couldn't take much more of that! 

After a roller coaster at Animal Kingdom we finally had to leave. Kai couldn't trust his fears anymore and so we came over the the Magic Kingdom where he thought we would do better.

We had to drag him onto 'Thunder Mountain Railroad' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean', when he loved those rides just 2 years ago. I think the lack of sleep was just too hard on him.

The Magic Kingdom stayed open after 6 just for our Cruise Guests.  They served us dinner and had a few characters out for us to take pictures with. Keala was thrilled!

We got right up to the characters without having to wait half an hour!

I couldn't believe they had Mickey and Minnie out... we were thrilled!

They opened only 3 rides for us but we literally dragged both kids onto the 'Haunted Mansion'.  I guess my kids are going through a stage. I KNOW we did all these rides at Disneyland 2 years ago, I just don't know why they were so freaked out about it now. People gave me mean looks for letting them cry.

But we still had fun. Keala found her element again in another parade.  She danced with more Cast Members in FrontierLand.

They did the Hokey Pokey and turned all around.  (Kai stood this one out too!)

It was so cute to see Keala have so much fun! At least one kid had a good time today. One out of two's not bad!

At the end of the night they had 2 shows for us at the hub in front of the castle.  One was a projected show onto the castle walls which was amazing!

The second show was the famous Disney fireworks in the Sky show! Here are Keala's Minnie Mouse Ears... Everyone at this party commented on them and she loved all the attention! She was so cute!

On the way out we were saluted by our favorite Mouse! "Come back soon!"  Oh we will! (When Kai gets a couple years older!)