Rides without Kids!

Ahhh - so we're back from our anniversary trip - no kids at Disney World! It was awesome. I recommend everyone take a trip without their kids at least once. The only time I got a little teary eyed about them not being there was while we were watching the Pixar parade at Hollywood. It was our first day and we weren't planning on catching any daytime parades, but our dinner reservation was for 3:30 and the parade route was right in front of our restaurant at 3:00 - so we watched - and we sort of wished the kids were there with us to see all the characters.

Anyway - this trip to Disney world we were able to focus on some of the bigger rides that we couldn't do when the kids were with us. (We could have done them, but I we didn't want to take up the time of having each of us ride the big rides alone while the kids waited.)

So... here we go:

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster: I still love this ride. The music, the speed, the lights - it is awesome. We tackled this at 8:15 in the morning and I'm not so sure that's the best time to have your body thrown around like that - but either way - we enjoyed this ride!

Toy Story Mania - Still love it. With and without the kids it's a great ride. It was fun to ride it without the kids because I could focus on the game at hand (of course, Mike still kicked my butt.)

Space Mountain - ugh. No thanks. It was very jerky. It actually doesn't go too fast (you can tell by the seats - there's nothing right behind your head) - the effects are pretty cool, but it was a very jerky ride.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - pretty fun. Quinn did this ride awhile ago, but he didn't love it.

Splash Mountain - LOVED IT. This ride must be done at night. We could see the stars during most of it. I thought the boys would like this ride, but there's quite a few drops before you finally get to the big drop. Oh - but the view from the top of that big drop is AMAZING. Especially at night.

Mission Space - I'm glad we tested this ride out - We choose the less intense line (no spinning) and we loved it. Mike got a little dizzy, but he didn't need the barf bags they provide, so that's good. I thought it was a great ride and I know Quinn will love it.

so - that's it - the rides we were able to do without the kids. We did get on plenty of other rides. (We rode Jungle Cruise 4 times - that ride cracks me up.)