Disney World: Hollywood Studios + A Night at the Castle...

Hollywood Studios is home of the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids Playground". We spent hours in here...and could have easily spent the whole day.

Here you can see the blades of grass, and we are below in the dirt. There is a supersoaker up top that gets sprayed occassionally, a large dog's nose makes loud sniffing noises, slides are made out of bug's tongues, opened rolls of film, etc. It's super creative in it's design...




Ezra playing at a fire hydrant in the NYC movie set area...


Excuse the cliche, but I have to say that our night at the castle in Magic Kingdom, was quite magical. We spent the afternoon at the hotel napping until almost 7pm, and then headed to Magic Kingdom for a 9:30pm dinner reservation.

We were able to catch the Disney Electrical Parade before heading in for dinner...




Upon entering the castle everyone gets to have their photo taken with Cinderella. She was an excellent "Cinderella" for the job who stayed in character with everything she said. Then we headed up to the ballroom where we ate our dinner and also where we were able to catch the firework show that was happening just outside the huge cathedral windows. Ezra was feeling a little nervous about more fireworks, and wanted to be held and we suggested just holding hands, so that's what we did, and then later in the night when the fireworks started again, he declared "hands!" and reached out for us to all hold hands again. :)

Several of the Disney Princesses made their way around the dining room to say hello, take photos, sign autographs. I didn't think to take a photo of my younger nieces who are definitely more into the princess scene...I'm sure they are on another camera and I'll see them at some point.

Here is Ariel with Ezra and Haleigh...


We all got dressed up for the occasion, some in more royal attire than others....



And, as a complete surprise to us, they came out singing Happy Birthday with 2 gluten-free cupcakes (with candles!! ...he loves candles!!) to celebrate a certain someone's 2nd birthday! A total highlight of the night for Sir Ezrito.




My boys with swords held high...


"Belle" and "Minnie Mouse" looking out the window at the carousel below...


Lydia waving from above. It was rumored to us that the next Disney movie has the princess dressed in this style dress...just leave it to Lydia to always be above the fashion curve...


After dinner playing...there were no lines at any of the rides, so we stayed and closed the park down at 1am!