Art of Animation

I know it seems silly to dedicate an ENTIRE post to a resort, but it was Ah-Mazing and I felt it was necessary. Art of Animation is divided into four sections: Cars, Finding Nemo, Lion King, and the Little Mermaid. My goal was to take an afternoon and walk all the different sections, but we ran out of time (we'll do it next time). Warning: this post is picture overload.

You literally walk into each movie.  We stayed in Cars. (Do you need to even ask why) And we loved it. Walking towards the section was like walking down the street in Radiator Springs.

I love Sheriff hiding under the Radiator Springs billboard.

It had three buildings: The Wheel Well Motel (that we stayed in)...

Luigi's Casa Della Tires...

and Tow Mater's Towing and Salvage.

In the middle was the Cozy Cone Motel. 

It included the pool with Cone huts to sit under and the laundry room. 

I didn't get a picture of the pool- but it was so cool (in the words of Reagan)

 

 All the main characters were present. 

Ramone!

Sarge

Mater

look at those details! The kids were in heaven.

McQueen

Sally

Fillmore

I love all his stickers, so we got a front and back shot.

Guido (pitstop!)

Luigi

Doc Hudson

And Sheriff. 

(Flo was also there, but somehow I didn't get her picture- like I said- there is always next time!)

 

Leaving Cars- looking into Finding Nemo. And the BIRDS! (mine.mine.mine)

The lobby had sketches of so many scenes from all the movies. 

This was Mason's favorite. He sat in front of it all the time.

Mason was showing Reagan some of the other movie scenes. 

He was not a fan of Ursula (so I think he was giving her the lowdown)

The Pool at Finding Nemo was awesome. It was HUGE, in the middle of the resort, and had so many amazing details. The School Yard splash pad area was a lot of fun. It featured Nemo, his dad and all his school friends. Mason and Reagan both loved this area. At one point I thought do we even need to go to a park?!? Pure. Heaven. 

She loved getting wet and would stick her head under the fountains and come up laughing!

Mason kept saying "it's summer, it's summer!"

I think Mason's expression says it all. We had the time of our lives.

  

I can't end without saying a HUGE thank you to my friend, Becca for all her advice and help with our trip.I couldn't have gotten it all together without you.
okay. done.