Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Last day at Disney



 Well our last day at Disney seemed to come to fast (and with lots of sweaty, dirty clothes)
 Our last night at Disney was a little wet, but Uncle Jack kept us entertained at dinner while we waited for the rain to let up.
 The 9pm Electric light Parade was delayed until 11pm but we were in it for the long haul so we stuck it out.   We rented an extra stroller and Christian couldn't have been happier about that. He was so tired of walking everywhere.
 We learned that coffee keeps Choates going strong.

 But Wencks just need a good nap and we are good to go!
The Electric Light Parade was worth the wait.  So much fun





Here are some of our ride highlights.  Chris' is always so serious when it comes to shoot 'em up games!
 I hope you can large this picture on your computer.  If you can, you will see 1) Christian and I screaming our heads off 2) Debbie screaming in Abby's ear while Abby screams her head off and 3) Jack screaming his head off and well, you can almost seem Emilie's head here.

 We had fun to the last possible Disney minute and left the park around 1am.
 The next day we had to say good bye to our Brown house in the Disney woods.  Archer still talks (almost daily) about his Brown house. He says it is in Fire, Texas.

 We packed it all back in and were ready to head out.

 There was one more stop before leaving Orlando, FL and it was a huge LEGO Store.  They had some amazing LEGO creations.





 The boys finally napped on the road and we made our way to Pensacola Beach, FL.

 Our driving help up really well and drove us all the way to the Florida panhandle.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Jedi Training

Our very own Abigail attended Jedi Training while we were at Hollywood Studios and even fought Darth Vader himself!!!!
Here are some of the highlights!














STAR WARS

Our time at Hollywood Studios for Star Wars weekend deserves its own posts.  Star Wars weekends fall on 4 weekends in May and June at Hollywood Studios each year.   We had been planning for Star Wars weekend since we first booked our trips.  This was a big day for the whole Wenck/Choate crew.
 We got an early start, but not early enough since the park opened at 8am.
 When we arrived Storm Troopers were guarding the front gate.  They called us Rebel scum.

 We asked some folks on the bus that looked like pros and they told us some scoop.  Head over to "Darth's Mall" and get in line for pictures with either Luke & Leia or R2D2 and C3PO.  That was our first stop.  We got in line early and were 5th in line.
 Luckily we got our chance to meet the Droids.  Our personal favs.  C3PO was very nice and asked if we liked Star Tours.  We told him we loved it and had already ridden it 3 times.  
 Darth's Mall was a Star Wars lovers dream store, so we didn't leave with out getting a few goodies.
 Next Christian and I head off to ride Star Tours one more time.  From our line we could see the Jedi Training that Abby had attended earlier in the week.
 Next we headed over to meet Anakin.  Abby joined us and both She and Christian talked with him and got autographs.




 The Choates headed over in the hopes of getting a picture with Luke and Leia and we headed around the park to see who we could meet.  We stood in a line in the hopes of meeting Capt. Rex, but the rain started and the signed was postponed.  Christian was lucky to see Capt. Rex walking across the park and said hi.  After lunch we spent a little time hiding from the rain and waited for our fast pass to Toy Story Mania (just had to get in one more of those).








 The girls got their change to meet Luke and Leia (side note, through out the day I would say Luke and Laura, oops, guess that tells you how old I am)



 We had a little fun with the Storm Troopers too.


In advance of the trip I ordered the kids all Star Wars shirts with their names on them from an Etsy shop and the shirts were a big success.  C3PO greeted the boys with "Well hello, you must be Christian and you must be Archer"...it was all very cool.  We had several people ask about them during the day.