GKTW and EPCOT -Day 4

This is a medallion in the heart of the Avenue of Angels at GKTW.  It's exactly what we've tried to do for Cicily and encapsulates the mission of GKTW and Make-A-Wish to me.  These organizations realize there is not a cure for some children in life.  Instead of worrying about what we can't do for children, these organizations do what they can do - provide happiness, hope, memories and joy.  That is something priceless to our Cicily and our family.  

A delicious breakfast in the Gingerbread House.  All the 'angel' volunteers serve you and make you feel so special eating here.  Also Cicily is very entertained here because there are thousands of dolls, bears and stuffed animals all around.

A family train ride around Amberville, a family-fun corner of GKTW.

GKTW even has their own mini-golf course!  Cicily liked putting the ball!  Maya played a full 7 holes.
Sophie kept trying to steal everyone's ball (she loves balls, and we think she was trying to be helpful).  It was a great way to spend the morning, we laughed a lot.  I love that GKTW has this, it's something I've wanted to do at home, but didn't want to "waste" the money knowing that nobody would actually do real golfing!

Matthew's Boundless Playground.  This is the park that is a life-sized Candy Land game.  We ate our lunch here and played for quite a while.  This is Maya's "classroom" where she wanted Cicily to come play with her.  I love it when she wants Cicily to join in her fun.  When we told the girls it was time to go to EPCOT, they didn't want to leave!  We even told them is was the night to have dinner with the princesses in a castle, something they'd been very excited for at home, still kinda didn't want to leave.  

Cis was excited to go down this slide holding hands with her sisters.

Sitting atop the sparkly gumdrops.

Sophie pretending to eat the chocolate bars.  She was funny, really sticking out her tongue and pretend chewing and saying, "mmm, yummy!"

We did make it to EPCOT and we were glad we did!  It was character central and early on a cast member saw our GKTW magic button and told us to go straight to the front of any character lines.  It made for an amazing character day!  The girls loved talking and interacting with all of them and having them sign their autograph books!  The first character was Daisy.  I think she was Sophie's favorite.

Mary Poppins was great!  She asked where we were from and when Maya told her she said, "well that's quite a ways for an umbrella trip!"  Cicily thought it was so funny!!!  Mary let her hold her parrot umbrella.  She also asked Sophie to say hi and Sophie happened to be sticking her finger up her nose.  Mary replied, "well, not how I would do it, but ok."

We made our way through the EPCOT countries to Norway where we ate dinner in the Akershus Castle.  Lots of the princesses were there and they all came to our table and talked with the girls, gave an autograph and posed for a picture.  This was the "princess parade".  I wanted Cis to enjoy it, so I took her around and helped her with her princess wave.  Princesses aren't her absolute favorite thing, but she enjoyed it.

Mulan was cool.  She showed Maya how to do a warrior pose.  Maya is definitely our princess of the family!

Sophie wasn't impressed by the princesses, but she LOVED making friends with this Disney employee, Trina,  and playing peakaboo with her!  Trina was so nice.

Possible TMI:  After our princess dinner, and a fun little ride in Norway, we needed to change a couple diapers.  Very fortunately for us we happened to use this family restroom.  It was a little blessing because Cis ended up blowing out big time and Dad got it on his shirt, which he had to wash out.  Then Soph had a rashy bum so I let her air out for just a brief minute and she ended up wetting her pants.  Fortunately we had a spare pair of pants for Cis and Sophie's shirt was like a short dress.  Since we were at Disneyworld and we happened to be in the perfect bathroom, we actually laughed at the mishap, got a picture and went on our way!