Longest Day Ever--Day 5- AKA The Murrays Take On Epcot and Hollywood Studios in One Day

This post is going to be so long!  Because this was the day I set a steps record which will never be broken lol! It was a pretty awesome day.

Here we are upon arrival at Epcot.  It was HOT that day!

And here we are later once we were all there haha.

We walked around to the different lands and the kids really enjoyed it.  We hung out the most with Grandma and Grandpa on this day as well, so that was awesome.

Squeezing into a phone booth in England!

 Owen LOVED the electric trains in Germany; he could have stayed for hours!

 It was the international flower festival and the flowers were GORGEOUS.  Left- Mexico. Right- floating flowers.

 Mickey flowers!

Mater and Lightning McQueen topiaries!  There were so many more cool ones, I wish I had taken more pics but my camera battery is horrible so I was always trying to conserve.

Flowers growing on a roof in Norway!  So pretty!

 A really cool ride here was Test Track.  We did child swap so Eric went with the big kids first,

And then they got to go again with me!  Emma had fun both times too haha.

We got to design our own cars,

 and then test them out.

 We borrowed a stroller from the house we were staying at and it was perfect!

 We had an awesome Disney Princess lunch with the whole family in the afternoon!

 The kids were pretty hot and tired waiting to go into the restaurant!

 But we got them to sit in almost-age order and smile!  (just switch Emma and Vivian)

The lunch was really fun!  We got to meet Belle,

Cinderella,

Ariel,

 Sleeping Beauty (Aurora)

 And Snow White.  I knew Maris would be SO excited and she was!  But Emma was ADORABLE and way more into it than I thought she would be. When each princess came around she was scrambling to get out of her chair and go hug them!

When the big kids went to a movie later, Emma got to meet Mulan!

and later Maris did too.

Owen got to meet this soldier lol.

We ended our time in Epcot at the Mexico land, on the 3 Caballeros ride with grandma, grandpa, Kurtis and Lauren.

Then it was time to head over to Hollywood Studios for our After Hours passes with the whole family!  It was so much fun and did not disappoint!  Well HS only had a few rides, so that was disappointing, but we got to go on each of our favorites several times!

The Star Wars Ride!

Soon it got dark and we busted out the glowsticks I had brought.

My kids with Jayda and Xav!  The other cousins didn't catch up with us until hours later.

Little cute face Disney girl!

Cutie with Woody and Jessie behind us!  We got to meet several characters walking around, but didn't want to wait in line for any. The funniest was when a life size toy army guy was walking past and Whitney yelled out "hi army dude!" and he called back "hi human dude" it was hilarious.

We went on the carnival game ride all together, there's kate and Whitney.

and the Slinky Dog ride was awesome!!  The first time we went on it there was a fireworks show going while we were on the ride, it was so cool!  maris loved all the roller coasters she was old enough to ride!

Another fun part of after hours was unlimited free drinks, popcorn, and frozen treats!  We definitely ate our fill! 

While the big kids went on some rides, me and Emma enjoyed the Buzz lightyear spin out ride a couple of times.

Elizabeth's awesome photo pass turned out so great, we got a lot of good pictures taken by the disney photographers!

This ride was the best!  at the beginning it just BLASTS you forward; here's the pics of everyone at that part!

Eric and Ryan their first time, I love their similarly excited faces!! and Owen and Kate haha

all of their faces on this one, especially Cleo's!

This one was me and Cortnee's first time but Ryan had already been, hilarious!

Elizabeth and KJ's first time haha

Awesome hilarious pics!  I think the kids went like 6 times!

So cute of Eric and Kate.

By 11pm Owen, Maris and Emma were all tired to the point of tears, but the passes were good for another hour. So I took them back to the house and Eric and the girls stayed longer and got a ride home with Mary and Brad.

Peace out Hollywood Studios!