Orlando 2011

We’re still a bit in low budget mode, so our spring vacation was to Orlando where my wife’s brother lives. And we managed a couple of days at Disney to make the girls happy (somehow, no matter how hard you try, Disney is not low budget).

It was a nice trip. Our girls Uncle Herbie has a new dog, a Chihuahua to go with their Golden Retriever (talk about an an odd size ratio) and our girls love dogs.

Danielle prefers the big dog, but still loved the little one:

But Tori has always been a little dog fan:

Regular blog readers might find this picture familiar, except the last time I posted it, Danielle was catching the fish:

And of course there was Disney. We had to do at least one character meal. Tori, as the second child, gets the bad deal here. I think we did three character meals for Danielle when she was four (ok, we had a bit more money then too).

So Tori got breakfast with Winnie the Pooh and company:

We stayed a couple nights at Animal Kingdom Lodge which was nice for the girls. This was the view from our balcony:

And these two just couldn’t get along:

And this was just behind the pool:

Tori was good on the rides, though she’s a bit of a scaredy-pants. Danielle will ride anything, but Tori doesn’t like dark rides, or overly fast ones. The best picture came from Splash Mountain. To look at the picture, you would think Tori loved this ride. The truth is that she cried for half of it. But check her out in the picture, hands up having fun:

She has potential…