Well, today was our first day back from Tommy's Wish. We went to Florida to DisneyWorld, Universal Studios, and SeaWorld. I think we all agreed that Universal Studios was our favorite of the trip! We arrived at Give Kids the World Village in Kissimmee, Florida on Sunday, September 17th! Give Kids the World is a great organization that owns land and has about 96 villas for family of "wish kids" to stay in. Here is our villa....#186! We were given a very nice Minivan to drive around during our stay. Make-A-Wish had everything arranged with Give Kids the World for us. Inside our villa was everything we needed. Washer & Dryer and full kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room and more! We were in heaven! They have a resturant that feeds you breakfast and dinner and an all you can eat Ice Cream Palace! We had Ice Cream for breakfast on more than once occasion....just for fun!
The kids were absolutely exhausted from travelling all day long. We left Sea-Tac at 8:30 am and didn't arrive in Florida until 10 something that night! It was a long day for all of us. We got settled in our villa and put the kids to bed and they were asleep in minutes! The kids room had 2 beds plus a roll out bed for one of them. They were so excited about their room. They had a jacussi tub and huge stand up shower in their bathroom. They were very excited about taking a bath in the jacussi tub right away. We went to bed early and had to wake up early for orientation at Give Kids the World village to get our tickets and other information about what parks we got to go to and other attractions! Our first day we decided to go to Magic Kingdom in DisneyWorld. Alexis could not wait to see Cinderella's Castle and Tommy could not wait to go on the rides! 
We decided to start in Fantasyland and work our way around the park! All the kids loved Splash Mountain and Tommy loved the Thunder Mountain Railroad Roller Coaster. Tommy set the tone for the whole vacation....he decided that the more thrilling the ride, the more he like
d it. The next day we decided to go to SeaWorld. We had a blast at SeaWorld. We fed Sting Ray's right out of our hands. Luckily they were tame and won't hurt you. We fed them fish out of our fingers. It was so cool. They would tickle as it sucked the tiny little fishy right out of your hand. Tommy really wanted to go on SeaWorld large roller coaster but he wasn't tall enough. He was so upset about that. The poor attendant at the ride felt so bad that she could't let Tommy on. So he and Jason found another ride they could go on and procceed to go on the ride twice! I forget the name of the ride but it had something to do with Atlantis. It was water ride. Tommy loved the drop off! 
Here is a picture of how much of a drop it was. And you could hear Tommy laughing and yelling all the way down! He is so much fun to take on the rides! We decided to try to make it to the dolphins after that ride but got there just as feeding time was over. We did, however, get to pet them and watch them swim around in the pool. We also tried to make the Shamu show but missed that by a few minutes. We found out that the day before while we were exploring Disney World a baby killer whale was born at Sea World. How excited. We were hoping to get a glimpse of the baby but were unable to do that. We still had a wonderful time in SeaWorld anyways. The girls got hair wraps done while in SeaWorld. They were beautiful and it was a lot of fun to see the ladies wraping their hair. They were so good at it and did it so fast. Then we found another adventure right around the corner. The kids decided to go on this huge trampoline that 
made them go very high in the air. The kids were put into a harness and then bungee cords were attached to the harness. They were then told to start jumping and as they jumped they went higher and higher into the air. It was really cool to see them go so high. They loved it. For some reason Katrina wouldn't go on the trampoline but Tommy and Alexis had so much fun. They were allowed 2 minutes each on the trampoline. It was great fun to watch! 
After a full day of animals and rides we went back to our villa for some much needed rest. The next day my mom arrived in Florida to spend some time with us. We decided to go to Animal Kingdom back at Disney World that day. We were actually quite disappointed with Animal Kingdom. And the love bugs 
were so bad that we couldn't stand it anymore. We would get swarmed by them anytime we stood still. So we decided we were all hungry and it was time for a break so we went and had luch at the RainForest Cafe. None of us had ever been to the RainForest Cafe. They treated us so nicely. They brough gifts to the kids and gave us preferential seating in the resturant. It was such a cool place. After that we went back to the village again to go swiming and the kids went to Kids Night Out at the Village that night. They got to have dinner and play games and had a dance contest and they played with volunteers. The kids had so much fun with their volunteers. katrina made her's dress up as girls...(they were boy volunteers) and Alexis learned how to do the chicken dance with hers. Tommy and his volunteer bonded so well they they exchanged contact information with each other. Mom, Jason and I hung out around the villa and relaxed while the kids were having their fun. We were exhausted already! 
The next day we woke up early and went to Universal Studios. Universal Studios was by far our favorite park to visit. We went through Seuss Landing and met Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-am, The Grinch, Thing one and Thing two, and many more characters around. We went on some fun rides too. 
We went through Nickelodeon Studios and went on the Jimmy Neutron ride..which I highly recommed. As we came out of the ride we got to be the first ones to meet Spongebob Square Pants. Tommy didn't want to stick around to meet Spongebob because he was too excited to go on the next ride! Next we went on the Shrek 4-D ride. It was so cool. The seats moved with the movie. They had you put 
on 3-D style glasses. But this ride was much more than 3-D! The characters in the movie would seem like they were inches from your nose! Then they had things like Donkey sneeze on you and they would spray you with water so it was like he really sneezed on you. Or air would blow by you like something was brushing up against you. It was just so fun. We also did the Jaws ride...which has defentely improved since I was a kid. Jason, Tommy, Katrina, and my mom went on a few more rides like Earthquake and Twister while Alexis and I waited for them and met some great characters like Beetlegeuss and the lion and one penguin from Madagascar! Too much fun! Then we went over to Islands of Adventure (which is part of Universal studios). That is where Seuss' Landing and Jurassic Park and Marvel Island are. The kids and Jason and my mom went on the Jurassic Park River ride with the 85 foot drop down! I stayed behind...I don't like rides like that. 
We ended that day because we had to get back to the Village and pick up our reservations for Medieval Times...yes, the resturant that they went to in the movie "Cable Guy" with Jim Carey! We were all excited about going there. But I am tired and I will finish telling you about the rest of our trip tomorrow. Good night all!
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