The BIG BIG day!

The Magic Kingdom.....the places wishes and dreams are made of.....June 17th...2010...we became an "official" family with Madison. Since we had to wait in the hotel until 11 am to speak to the judge, we decided to go later to Disneyworld and do the Electric Parade and fireworks. As our luck would have it, there were thunderstorms all day so we had to wait it out and see if the rains would stop. Luckily, around 4pm, it was just drizzling, so we headed over. We knew we wanted to celebrate the day, "come hell, or high water."

Finally.....at least we got to walk through the hallway of the castle. Not go up in it....but it was "the castle"!!!!!

Yesterday we waited in line for the princesses, today we waited to see the fairies. This really was my favorite. You wait in "Pixie Hollow" and they explain to you that since the fairies are small, as you walk down the hallway ...you shrink....and the return to your original size when you leave. This story INTRIGUED Madison. She was once again....in awe!!

Getting to see the first fairy......the fairy asked Madison where she lived.....Madison quickly responded....." In a hotel!!"

Learning the Tinkerbell pose!!

Madison calls this her princess smile......

Ya gotta have ears!!

I'll pump your gas, but you can clean your own windshield!!

Faster Dad....faster!!! Mom's catching up with us!!

Getting ready for the parade....you have to have $5.50 cups of ice cream....lol.

Waiting for the parade and watching the castle turn colors.....











Totally an awesome sight.......

Ta-daaaaa...the parade begins....some pictures came out, some were wayyyyy too dark to post

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Tinkerbell.....yeah I know.....pretty dark!

Chooo-choooooo

Cinderella
















Cinderella ...the fairy godmother

This was one of my favorite parts of the parade....the dancers for Cinderella's ball.....

Peter Pan So the parade ends....we're excited to stay to watch the fireworks because we had gotten firsthand information where to be on the parade route so that Tinkerbell would come flying over our heads on a zipline from the castle. ( thank-you Jennifer!) But before the fireworks started Madison informs us that NOOOOO....she doesn't want to stay because the fireworks scare her. *SIGH* So much for seeing Tinkerbell......so we head out of the park. We take the ferry back and get to see the fireworks from the water, which actually, wasn't a bad thing after all. The funny part was when Madison says....hey, they DON"T scare me....can we go back and watch them??? *SIGH AGAIN* And so ends our 2 days at Disneyworld. About 4 hours the first day....about 5 the second....not quite the time we were hoping for, but hey...we can say we were there....and what a great place to tell of when we tell of the day Madison became our daughter.

Then it was on to a whole lot of driving to get to Virginia and start a whole new chapter in our lives.