Day 2 - Typhoon Lagoon/CBR Pool Party/ Dinner at POFQ/Putt putt (whew!)
After lunch the boys wanted to go back to the Ski Patrol area. I tried to convince DH to go ride something "big" but he was just content to stay with us at the kiddie area.
About thirty minutes later, he suggests that we ride the big family raft ride "up there" and he points WAY up there! After looking at the map, we saw that it was named "Teamboat Springs" and we started to try to figure out how to get up there. My one complaint about Blizzard Beach is that it's hard to navigate. There are signs but they are vague arrows and once you leave the arrow you don't really know where to go at the next split. SO after a little while we were lost, really lost. When we asked a CM for directions, they pointed to this......
....ummmm, really???? But we have a child afraid of heights. What if he freaks out in the chair on the way up??? The CM also offered that there was a different way up there but that it included 180 steps to the top. DS11 looked at me and said, "Let's take the chairs mom. It looks fun!" FUN!?!?!? FUN!?!?! This mom was slightly freaked out! I was also worried that he would freak out mid trip and have some kind of panic attack. What if he caused us to fall? *Breathe......* Off we went to find the chairs and to our luck there was really no line.
I took DS7 with me and DH took DS11 with him. Those things move SOOOO slow! We did eventually make it to the top and I'm happy to report that they both handled the chair lift REALLY well. However, Mom and Dad decided that they rather climb 180 steps instead of riding that chair lift EVER again!
We walked up and onto the ride all going straight to hopping in the raft. It was such a great ride with my little one belly laughing the whole way down while I tried to hold him down.
Here's a picture of some other family riding it.
After getting off, we decided that we definitely had to ride it again so we ran up the 180 steps and got in the line. This time we had a short 10 minutes wait for the ride. While we waited, we found Tower of Terror, the Epcot ball and the tree of life all in the sky line. Never once did DS11 EVER have any trouble with the height. I guess he isn't afraid of heights after all. We loved the ride the second time as much as we did the first time.
After we got to the bottom, we decided that it was time to go back to our resort and relax for a little while before going eat dinner. We headed out to the bus stop and a bus was waiting for us. Yay for bus pixie dust!
As soon as we got back to our resort, the boys decided that we needed to go down to the pool for the pool party.
So down we went.....I was tired of the water so I changed into shorts and a t-shirt. I would regret this later because it was HOT HOT HOT!
I know he doesn't match but he HAD TO HAVE both of the pieces of that outfit and he wears them proudly. The top is a Batman cover up and the bottom is pirates. Those two match right?
DS11 was reclining in a lounge chair playing "Name that tune - Disney Style" so I tried to help. Sometimes you had to name the part of the park that the song was played in and we didn't know those. We lost but had fun either way.
After "Name that Tune", DS11 decided to dip in the pool.
He tried out the slide a few times and enjoyed it. They announced that the pool party was starting and that every child who participated in it would get a prize at the end of the hour. This will cause us trouble later but for now we start the party!
Here is DS11 hulahooping during the party.
He was pretty good at it.
One last picture of him hulahooping
DS7 wasn't as good at it but he enjoyed it as well.
He did get his hulahoop going for a little while.
After the hulahoop competition, they had a grab the duck game.
All of the kids sat on the edge of the zero entry part as the CM's threw toys into the pool. After all the toys were thrown, the CM's would holler go and everyone would try to grab as many as they could.
Grabbing ducks
It's HOT!!!
After the "grabbing the ducks" game, we decided that it was entirely too hot to be out at the Pool Party. We were tired of water and ready to be in our room but DS7 was determined to get a "prize" at the end of the party. I FINALLY convinced him to leave by offering to get him a treat later in the trip. I knew that it would cost me A LOT more than the trinkets that they give as prizes would cost Disney but it was worth it to get out of the heat.
Pictures from our walk back to our room....
And we have one sad little boy with no prize from the party.
Up next - Dinner, Putt Putt, Fireworks and our first drink of the trip!!!
how strange!
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We went to BB this last trip and it was far too crowded and blazing hot to really enjoy everything they have to offer. But we did a few of the slides. And there's no way I would have climbed the 180 steps! Our lazy butts went up the lift! Glad you didn't have any issues with your son freaking out on the lift... that would have been a tough one. 
Our family lovingly calls him GQ because he is always posing and modeling for us. He's a goofball and we wouldn't have it any other way.
He offered to come back later in the week to get me one. 
