Emory and Ellie had a four day weekend so we headed off for some fun in Orlando.
We set off for Orlando right after school on Thursday afternoon to take Emory and Ellie to see Cirque du Soleil for the first time. Dan and I saw it for our first time ten years ago but were excited to share it with the kids. They absolutely loved it!
We had dinner at Wolfgang Puck's in Downtown Disney before the show started at 9pm. There were lots of fun Halloween decorations, including this large pumpkin Mickey Mouse.
The next morning we got up and headed over to Universal Studios and Universal's Islands of Adventure for the day.
Emory enjoyed trying on the wigs in one of the shops. Maybe we should get one of these for Halloween next year?
Ellie looked super cute in the furry pink top hat!
Emory had lots of fun being silly with the props around the park.
The best part of the day for Ellie was that she was tall enough to ride the "big" roller coasters for the first time ever. We got our Universal passes back in February and each time we have visited she hasn't been tall enough to ride the Hulk coaster or the Dueling Dragons coaster with Emory. This time she wore tennis shoes rather than flip flops(and we stuffed a couple of napkins in her heels!.) With all of that she was just tall enough! Yea!!! She must have looked much taller on this particular day because they didn't measure her on either coaster and they have each time that we have tried to get her on in the past. She loved both coasters and had so much fun. Dueling Dragons which is a hanging coaster is her favorite!
