Family Vacation 2005, Day 3....

Today I got my first taste of Disney World. Most of the crew, except for Thomas, little Jeff and myself, went to Sunday mass. Ellie cooked up some pancakes, sausage, and bacon for breakfast when the returned. Good stuff. After breakfast, Geralyn and Jeff took their kids over to a water park for the day. The rest of us hopped in the pool for a couple of hours. Grandma and grandpa even joined in on the fun! After a couple of hours in the pool we got dressed and headed over to Downtown Disney to the market place. Since I've never been there or did much research about the place, I had no idea that Disney World took up so much space. It's basically a city all by itself.

We walked around a little bit of Downtown Disney and hit a couple of the shops. The Lego store was pretty cool. Well, not really the store, but the huge sculptures made of legos that were on display, both inside and out. (Unfortunately since there's only dial-up service, pictures won't be uploaded online until we get back to NJ). Next up was a huge Disney store. There was room after room after room of different themed merchandise. After that we got some pretzels and ice cream. Thomas, myself, Jennie, Joseph and Veronica all got temporary tattoos. Then we headed back to the house for some more pool time.

Thomas got his first vacation boo-boo in the pool. Nicholas pushed him into the pool and while falling in TJ tried to catch himself on the edge, but instead wound up turning himself around, scraping his chest on the edge, hitting his chin and in turn, smashing his teeth together. Lots of blood. But a tough little guy. He was back in the pool within 5 minutes.

Tomorrow we're off to Animal Kingdom and MGM Studios....