Day 4-Disney Quest/Islands of Adventure/Hollywood Studios

Friday we woke up early to meet everyone for breakfast at Downtown Disney. The place we ate at had really good breakfast sandwiches. We all sat outside and enjoyed visiting and eating.
Here is a fun picture taken while we were waiting for everyone to finish eating. From left to right...Elijah Warner, Sienna Warner, Kate (another HLHS child like Kyson), Kade Warner, Kyson, and Caleb.

All of the kids spotted this duck and her little babies following her around. Caleb especially loved them and kept wanting to take pictures of them. I deleted tons of them but here are a couple.


After eating, we all walked down to Disney Quest.
This is Sierra (the youngest Warner) pushing Brooklyn. Sierra just couldn't get enough of her and just loved to be wherever she was.

Kyson was having a hard time walking that far so he hitched a ride on one of the volunteer's shoulders (Erin). Poor kid has no waist and his pants never stay up where they are supposed to:)

Along the way, Kurt stopped to pose for a picture with another wish kid, Emmanuel.

Kyson thought this Buzz Lightyear and Woody made completely of legos was super cool!

Disney Quest is a huge building just filled with arcade games. I thought it was funny that Kurt kept saying that Disney Quest was his favorite part of the whole trip. While it was a lot of fun, I definitely loved the roller coasters and theme parks more. The cool part was they opened Disney Quest just for our group an hour and a half before it was opened to the general public.
Here's Kade talking to our boys just before they let us in. He was telling them about all of the fun things to do.

We had the whole place to ourselves. Our boys LOVED the car racing games. If we tried to do anything else they were very upset. In fact trying to leave Disney Quest turned into a bit of a nightmare but we survived the crazy fits being thrown (isn't it crazy how even when kids are being spoiled rotten, they still throw fits!) and decided to get some lunch and head to Islands of Adventure/Universal Studios.

On our way we asked the boys what they would like to eat and not surprisingly they said Taco Bell. We wanted to hurry to get to the park so we grabbed it on our way.

We got parked and it seemed like a mile walk to get inside the park and it was HOT and humid! I convinced Jared to stop for a quick picture...

One of the first rides the boys rode was the Dr. Suess ride. Jared took them both while I stayed and watched Brooklyn.
When they saw Kyson was a wish child they made the boys honorary conductors.

They both had a great time and I guess Kyson was very sad to have to get off the ride.

My favorite part of the park was Harry Potter land. It was so busy and crowded so we didn't stay too long because the boys weren't as interested as I was. They did a very good job building that part of the park.




We tried the butterbeer, went to a wand show, and rode the hippogriff ride a couple times.
This ride was fun, short, and fast. Kyson wasn't too thrilled about it but the rest of us loved it!


Once we left Harry Potter land we found a couple more rides the boys really enjoyed. Then it was time for the parade in Universal Studios so we decided to head that way. We realized we were short on time so we ran a good portion of the way. Unfortunately we completely missed the parade because they decided to start it early because of the threat of rain. A little disappointing to us after running there, but oh well. We met up with our friends, the Arandas, after the parade and rode a couple rides with them. After riding the hippogriff ride Kyson was scared to ride anything else. I convinced him to ride one ride and he was happy when he got off but didn't want to go again!
We ended up staying at the park until it started raining on us again so we started home.


Once we made it to the car the boys were completely exhausted! They both fell asleep pretty quickly. Poor Caleb was in a booster seat and didn't have anywhere to lay his head. We were laughing pretty hard so I decided to video tape him for a minute:)