Disneyworld - Part 2 (Hollywood Studios)

On our 2nd day at Disneyworld we spent the first half of the day at Hollywood Studios. They have the best ride EVER at this park called the Rockin' Roller Coaster, unfortunately it was under renovation while we were there! Sad day! That's OK, there was plenty of other fun things to see!

Here we are in line for the Toy Story ride. That Mr. Potato Head really talked and told jokes. It was pretty cute.

There is a Honey I Shrunk the Kids play ground...this is on the way out of the play area...

Here we are in "San Francisco."

...with Lightning McQueen and Mater.

We of course had to ride the classic that is Star Tours!

Scot was the only brave one of the two of us to ride the Tower of Terror. I'm too chicken!

Animal Kingdom pictures to come!

Surprise! We went to Disneyworld...!! Part 1

I have to say that I have the greatest, most awesome husband in the entire world! He's the best ever and I just love him! He's always surprising me and doing such nice things for me and he totally went above and beyond this past weekend!

Our 5th year anniversary was on Friday and we had planned to drive up to Denver to go to the Cheesecake Factory and do a little shopping. I was really looking forward to it. On Thursday I got up and went to work like any other day and around 11:00 I got a phone call from my awesome boss (who is also my mother in law :)) telling me that there was a problem with one of my files and that I needed to come up to her office. So I went up there and when I walked in there was Scot. I thought it was slightly weird that he was there, we had kind of talked about going to lunch that day so I thought maybe he was there just picking me up or something. Anyway, after I sat down Scot took my hand and said a few nice things and then handed me our reservation to go to Disneyworld and stay in the same hotel we stayed at for our Honeymoon. I was still completely confused. I couldn't figure out why he came to my work to tell me that. Finally everyone was like go, shut down your computer, have fun! Scot was like we are leaving right now let's go. I was in complete shock! I had no idea and did not expect that at all. I am usually so hard to surprise so I can't believe he pulled it off! So off we went to go home and super sonic pack! We had such a fantastic time...we took a bazillion pictures so I will probably break this post up in to sections so stay tuned!

We spent all of Friday at the Magic Kingdom. It's our favorite so we wanted to spend as much time there as possible. We got there a little after it opened and didn't leave til' they closed, except for a brief trip back to the hotel to swim for an hour or so...

We have made it a tradition to eat at this delicious bakery for breakfast on Main Street at least once during each trip! Yummm, delicious cinammon rolls! That's the beauty of a trip like this, you walk so much that you can pretty much eat whatever you want!

Here we are on the Jungle cruise with an elephant in the background!

Scot, after we rode his all time favorite ride, Pirates of the Caribbean!

The Haunted Mansion, some of those headstones are pretty funny!

Even though it's a little nerdy we had to ride It's a Small World!

Mary Poppins, spit spot...

These little guys are every where! After we went swimming we were waiting in the courtyard in front of our room because the cleaning crew was working in our room and we saw this guys on one of the benches. Blah!

Back to Magic Kingdom after our brief rest!

Minnie's House!

Mickey's House!

Last ride of the day. This was our 2nd time on Space Mountain! We tried to ride everything at least a couple times, except for Splash Mountain...I got drenched and it was only the 2nd ride we rode that day! Not cool!

Day one was a success! It really is The Happiest Place on Earth!

Monarch Ski Resort + Jenny on Skis = NEVER happening again!

Soooo this is the longest over due post EVER in the history of over due posts! What is wrong with me? I guess we've just had a lot going on the last few months and just haven't thought about blogging...so here it is...

Anyway so I mentioned in my last post that I was going to try out skiing. Scot LOVES to ski and has been asking me to go skiing with him probably since before we got married but I've always just sort of dodged the subject. I decided that after 5 years of marriage and 2 1/2 years of dating it was finally time to bite the bullet and just get it done all in the name of love. Everyone kept saying Monarch is so easy, it's a great place to learn and it's never busy. Uhmmmm...OK. We pulled up and I was like "WHAT IS THAT GIGANTIC MOUNTAIN?" Scot was like "It's nothing, it's nothing. That's not steep..." Uhmmmm OK...suuuure, whatever you say! So I strapped in to my boots, against my better judgement and slowly and akwardly trudged through the parking lot to meet the instructor for my lesson (Scot was ahead of me trying to get our lift tickets because we were running late and don't even think for a second that I didn't consider just running back to the car and hiding while he wasn't looking). After we paid and were all squared away we got to the meeting place and met the instructor and the three other people in my class. I will say 2 things: one is that one of the other people in my class left after about 20 minutes. One minute he was there on his butt with the rest of us and the next he had taken off his other ski and just started walking down the mountain without saying a word. I wanted to run after him and say TAKE ME WITH YOU! But I didn't...I figured that would be sort of creeper of me so I decided to go ahead and stick it out through the lesson... Two is that does anyone realize how stinking hard it is to get up after you fall down? I couldn't believe it. I nearly busted a gut trying to get up those 641 times...

Had I known how dumb I looked I would have left the camera at home. It's ok though, now I have proof that I did it and I tried and that I was there. So after the 2 hour lesson from Hades Scot found me stuggling to get the skis off with tears running down my face. I was DONE, DONE and DONE. He helped me take the skis off and we went in to the lodge and had some lunch and hot chocolate (I was in heaven). I told Scot that I would be sad if he didn't go back out and ski for another couple hours but that I think I had had enough adventure for the day so he did and luckily I brought my trusty book (just in case) and I got to sit in the lodge by the fire and a window and read and people watch. I LOVED it...until the little girl at the table next to me puked all over the floor (lots of people get altitude sickness)...that, not so much fun. Anyhoosie, here is what Scot did...

All in all, despite the DRAMA RAMA (all me) it was a really fun day with my hubby and I'm glad I did it. I have now confirmed my fear of adventure, my dislike for being cold and wet and my unappreciativeness (today this is a word) for speed and danger.

Also, here is my PSA for this sport WEAR A HELMET, no joke. I feel like it is essential. They make really cute ones that can match all your gear and I think everyone needs one. Anyway...just sayin'.

Love you all and I plan to be more exciting and have things to post about in the future!

Daycation

Yesterday Scot and I went on a little daycation. A few weeks ago we decided to go up to Breckenridge for their Snow Sculpture competition. We had never been before but had heard really great things about it so I really want to go and check it out! It was such a fun day, we just wish we had been able to stay there a little bit longer than a few hours! Here are pictures from the day...

As we were pulling in to town we saw these wind surfers! They are wind surfing on ice and snowboards! We thought this was really cool.

I kept telling Scot we were going to see ice sculptures but they were really snow sculptures. These were the only ice sculptures they had but they were still really cool!

This sculptures was created by a team from Mexico. This was one of Scot's favorites! Here it is from the front...

And from the back...

A couple more that weren't our favorites but still very impressive...Each sculpture starts out as a 20 ton block of snow that is created from snow from the ski resort.

The Polar Bear was one of our favorites!

Here is the lady from the front. She even has a comb in her hair.

Here she is from the back.

The one behind us is a man playing a violin but as you can see, we are blocking him. Whoops.
Overlooking all the sculptures...

Part of the ski resort and a sign that says thin ice, do not cross. Clearly people listened and decided to walk across the ice anyway! Duh!!

After we walked around downtown and ate dinner at the "Pizza Parlor" in this really cool old victorian house we went back to see the sculptures all lit up at night. They looked really beautiful in the light and it was a lot easier to see the details...

We really liked this one obviously!
On the way back to the car we stopped at a little cafe and bought chocolate chip oatmeal and peanut butter cookies with hot chocolate to drive home with! Yum! The perfect ending to a really fun day!

I think our next daycation is going to be skiing. I'M SCARED! Stay tuned for how that goes in a couple weeks!