THE NEWTON'S

We had planned on driving to Disney World, until Rich found an amazing deal on airline tickets from Dallas for 150 round trip.  So about a month and a half before our trip we changed our plans.  This allowed Rich to sign up for the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning, and Ashley decided decided she wanted to do the fun run- so she and I did the fun run that morning.  It was FREEZING!  But we had a good time and a it was a good start to our vacation.   After the turkey trot we came back home and rested, finished packing, and we had an early dinner of leftover Thanksgiving dinner (I made our big dinner the day before).  Then cleaned the kitchen up, loaded into the car and drove down to Dallas.  At the hotel in Dallas we had a snack of leftover rolls and turkey and cheese... the kids remembered how much they loved sandwiches on rolls, and then we tucked everyone into bed to try and get some sleep since our flight was for 8:30 in the morning. The ne...

We got up and packed our stuff back up into suitcases and went down to the Lobby and left them and our backpack's with the guest services desk.  They would transfer them to where we were going to be staying for the rest of our trip.  Then we hopped on the bus to the Animal Kingdom.  This year was a turning year for our family and theme parks.  Angela is now tall enough to ride a lot of the rides that she couldn't ride in the past.  My favorite thing was to come off of a ride and hear her little voice saying "That wasn't even scary!  Let's ride again!"  We hadn't had breakfast at the hotel so we got everyone some breakfast at a little bakery near the Kilimanjaro safari.  Then we grabbed fast passes for Expedition Everest to use later in the day and then we warmed everyone up with the rides in Dino-land first... the Triceritop Spin  for Angie and I and Primevil Whirl for everyone else.  Then we headed to Dinosaur.  Angie was ex...