Disney trip - Tuesday

Tuesday we took the day off from parks. We decided that it might be good for our kids to have a break anyway - they are easily overstimulated and have (a lot of) trouble handling too much excitement sometimes.

We went to see Santa since we hadn't done that yet and played for a little while at Bass Pro Shop (seriously the best place to see Santa if you want a good deal and don't want to spend a lot of money for Santa pictures - you get one picture for free, can take pictures with your own camera if you want and they have all kinds of free activities set up for the kids - this one even had a little carousel in the store!)

Jeremy was scared to ride on one of the animals, but he wanted Grandma Mac to hold him so he could ride

After seeing Santa we went to the pool at our resort. It was still chilly from the cold front that came through, but the kids loved swimming anyway.

The resort has an indoor/outdoor pool. It was a little strange to us because it was all connected as one pool and you could swim from inside to outside (and vice versa) and there was a sort of wall of windows about 6 inches or so above the surface of the water that separated the inside from the outside. The strange part to us was that the inside half of the pool was not heated, so the air was warmer inside, but the water was really cold. The outside half of the pool was heated so the water was warmer here, but any part of you that was outside the water (especially if it was wet) was going to get really cold because of the chilly weather. The inside should have been heated as well - swimming would have been much more enjoyable that way!

This is one of the few nights that I (or anyone else with us) didn't prepare a meal. When Justin and I were picking what we wanted to do and see, he really wanted to go to the Luau at the Polynesian Resort (after living in Samoa for two years of course he would want to go to the luau). At first I said that it was too expensive, but then we decided that since we weren't paying for a place to stay and we got 2 kids into the parks for free and mine and Justin's tickets were half price, we could splurge on a few things. My parents chose not to go because they get to go to luaus occasionally for much less than the Disney one, so again we left the kids with them and we went with Justin's dad and step-mom and we met up with Justin's brother and his wife as well as Justin's step-sister and her two children (quite a bit older than our kids).

The food was good and the entertainment was good as far as the dancing, but they had the people acting out a really cheesy skit in between all the dances that we thought was a little lame. It wasn't so easy to get good pictures of the dancing, but we especially liked the fire and knife dance.