The Brandon and Sarah Cushing Family-Part Two

Thursday and Friday...
Thursday we just drove to Orlando, checked into the hotel and got some grub. Not to brag but we seriously got hooked up on this trip... the first night we were there the restaurant was out of the onion rings for Tyler's burger so they gave us a huge thing of free fries and free drinks... nice.

Owen was really loving it.

So this was the part of the trip the kids were most excited about. We got up Friday and headed to the Happiest Place on Earth. If you don't know what I'm referring to, here is another hint:

If you guessed Disney World, you would be correct.

So, quick story  about what a great hook up that we got to get into Disney. The Cushing family had done some volunteer work at the beginning of the year to get free tickets into the park but Tyler and I didn't participate because we were in Florida. We were super excited to visit the parks but not super excited to spend the money on the place. I was telling my good friend Chelsea about this and she mentioned that she had an amazing hook up named Ray that could help us out with that.  She told me that you just pick the guy up from Walgreens, drive him to the park and he gets you into the park for free, oh and he gets you free parking. Once you're inside the park, you give the guy $60 and he heads home on a bus. It sounded a little sketchy when she was telling me about it but we decided to call this guy and see if it was legit. When I called this sweet  78 year old man answered the phone, told me he would check his schedule and then informed me that we were good to go. We just had to drive 20 minutes to pick him up the next morning and we would be on our way. We seriously loved this guy. He used to work for Disney so for part of his retirement plan, they told him he could get up to three people into the park for free every day. He decided to take advantage of that deal and make himself a little retirement income on the side. He said he's booked through November and he makes a good little living out of it. Here we are on the monorail into the park:

Oh man, don't you just love this old guy? Seriously, we love him. Thanks Ray for saving us $160!

None of us, except Sarah had been to Dinsey World before so it was such a fun time. We seriously had such a blast.

Loving the Parade

Souveniers

Aren't they cute?

 

Space Mountain (my personal favorite)

 

The highlight for Owen. Driving a Car.

Handsome hubby on Winnie the Pooh

Getting sick on the teacups. Love this ride.

Sarah bought some popcorn and Tyler and Owen accidently spilled it, so there were a ton of birds hanging out by this table we were sitting at. The babies were loving it, chasing them all over the place. It may have been one of Owen's favorite things at Disney World. Oh and after we spilled it, the janitor came over and offered us another free popcorn since we spilled ours. Then about an hour later we all wanted frozen bananas and the guy at the banana stand just gave three of them to us for free... can you believe that? Such a good day for hook ups right?

Something so annoying though... we realized on our drive to Disney that it was closing at 7:00 that night for some Christian get together. So everyone had to leave the park unless you paid $56 extra per person to stay and listen to Christian Rock.  They wouldn't even let you into the stores to purchase souveniers. Can you believe that? Anyway, we decided to opt out of that and headed to a way yummy dinner at Bahama Breeze... mmmm so good.

 

It was such a fantastic day!

 

To be continued...