Give Kids the World Village

So I thought I would share some pictures of the place we stayed. It is called Give Kids the World and it is an amazing place. The guy who opened it was an owner of a hotel a while back and would allow Wish families to stay in his hotel for free. There wasn't much space there so it would take a long time for Wishes to be granted because they had to wait for space to open up for them to stay. So this guy decided to change that and opened up Give Kids the World and man did they go all out to make it feel like the coolest place a kid could stay.

Right as we got there I went to orientation and Taylee and Aaron went to a party they were having for the mayor of the Village. His name is Mayor Clayton and he is a big bunny. They did different events every night of the week and had activities going on all day every day.

They had someone walking around with armadillos one day...

This was cool, they brought a piece of mail to Taylee and inside was a letter from the fairy and this star. You were supposed to take it to the Castle of Miracles, put your name on it, and then the fairy would take it and put it up on the ceiling of the castle that night. More pics to come.

They had people walking around with cameras just to take pictures of your family. You just told them your room number and they would put all your pics on a disc for you to take home. We didn't get many because you are so busy trying to get to all the parks that you have to miss out on some of the fun things they do here.

So we didn't take many of our own pics because they told me at orientation that they would send us home with pictures of all the things here at the village. It was so cool, I just had to share some of them. This is the main building. If you had any questions, needed tickets to any other parks, wanted to rent movies or other things like that, you came here.

We didn't have time to do this, but they had a miniture golf course called Dino Putt and it was totally dinosaur themed. So cute!

This was called Amberville. Outside this building was the train ride, inside was an enormous play train station with buttons you could push to make the parts move.

I couldn't help but think of all the little boys who love trains and would be in heaven if they saw this.

Here is the train. Taylee loved riding this!

This building was called Julie's Safari Theater. We didn't do much in here, but one night was Christmas. They decorated all over with Christmas decorations and had it snow. There was a party with dancing and treats and inside this theater you could go see Santa. Then there were shelves and shelves with all different kinds of toys they could choose from. Just another generous thing they do for the kids here.

Inside the theater

This is the ice cream palace. Probably the best building there!! You could go as much as you wanted and get any kind of ice cream, milk shake, banana split, sundaes or anything else you could think of with all the toppings. Yum!!

Inside the ice cream Parlor...

This is inside the Castle of Miricles. They put all the stars of every kid that has ever stayed there up on the ceiling and you can come back and see it anytime you want. Really cool!

A carousel too!

This tree was called Ol' Elmer. He was always asleep and would snore and make other noises when you walked by...

This is the Gingerbread House where you eat all your meals (if you want). You could also order pizza to your villa or Boston Market food.

Inside the Gingerbread House...

They had a day that they brought horses in and the kids could ride them. We weren't around for this either. There was just so much to do and not enough time to get to it all...

Just a pretty pond in the middle of the property..

This is where you brought your star to the fairy to put on the ceiling. Inside this castle was a pillow maker too. Taylee liked doing that.

This is what their newer villas look like. They are expanding and the new ones look so fun! Ours was one of the least interesting on the outside, but they all looked different.

They also had this huge playground that was Candyland themed. One night they had a live Candyland game where the kids were the players.

This was where the pool was, our favorite place to go!

It was a nice big pool that was heated slightly so it wasn't to cold. It had fountains that changed colors and sprayed water out the sides. We stayed away from those...

This is Tay in her bed. The first day we got there they had left a bag full of toys and presents for her. Every morning after that they brought her a new gift. We came home with 6 new movies, lots of stuffed animals, color books, a Give Kids the World Candyland game and much much more. They bend over backwards for these kids and we just had a blast staying here and checking out all the fun stuff they had for us to do here too!