Anyhow, we left for the airport and picked up Ryan's little sister, she took my car and checked on our house for the week. We didnt' nap Hailyn and our flight was at 2:15pm and FORTUNATELY she slept the entire way to Miami- by the way American Airlines is wonderful! They gave us the row with extra leg room, we brought lots of Hailyn's blankets and we laid a blanket down and she slept! Then we switched planes in Miami and had enough of a layover to use the bathroom find our gate and board. Hailyn watched Despicable Me on the 35 minute flight to Orlando. We finally got to our room at 2:30am Florid time. We hadn't eaten since 11:30 that morning (chicken nuggets too, not a substantial meal). So we were starving! No dinner! We get to our room I booked with two beds (Hailyn was with us, we are not ones to share a bed with our kid, our sleep is too important to us:) and there was a king bed- ONE! It's 2:30am and we are hungry and TIRED! So I called the front desk and the profusely apologized and said they'd send up a rollaway for no charge the entire week or we could switch rooms. Seeing as how it was 2:30 am and we did not want to move our two large suitcases and a rollaway and a stroller and a two year old, and we LIKED the idea of a big bed (for us) we went with option one. They sent a double size rollaway and Hailyn slept GREAT in it and we slept GREAT in our king sized bed- and no charge:) thanks Disney world!:)
So we woke up at noon the next day... and were famished. We got dressed and quickly hopped on the first bus we saw we didn't care where it took us (Disney World has four major theme parks and two water parks- plus two golf courses they use in the PGA) and it ended up taking us to Epcot. We got in and found the nearest restaurant and scarfed burgers and fries and fruit and water and ahh it was heavenly. Wish we had dinner the night before:) We had the Disney Dining plan (saved us 40% on meals there) and oh boy was is WORTH it! LOVED it!! We are big fans!! Our dining plan was on our room key as was our park hopper tickets, and the ability to charge to the room so no debit cards were needed- it was awesome! Anyhow, after we werent' in crazy survival mode for food, we explored epcot- COOL park!!! They have one of the largest aquariams in the country and it was incredible. We went on the Nemo ride and H LOVED it! We rode a few more rides and then headed over to the Magic Kingdom. Can I just say it's INCREDIBLE!
doing Disneyland and Disneyworld literally back to back it was awesome! The best comparison I have is Disneyland is like your first home you put your heart and soul and character into and every little detail is perfect. Then you build equity and purchase your mega mansion and that's Disney World- it's basically Disneyland times 10. There is a ton of lang (Disneyland is spread over 4 square miles Disneyworld is 24...) so you take buses and monrails everywhere and we LOVED it! We hopped all over the place all the time it was great. There is so much to do there you can't possibly be bored. We were even going to go to the water park and the beach one day but it was rainy weather and yet we were still having a blast the entire time! SO much to do! I think I need to do a separate post on tips for Disney world, but here's the rest of our first day. If you are still reading KUDOS to you! And remember I have to pair down 400+ pics- so please bear with me...
Ok they uploaded in reverse and I'm too lazy to change it... here's dinner. They had these rolls that H pretty much survived on the entire time- and fruit- and chocolate milk- and desserts. We had the dining plan with a quick meal (salads, burgers, wraps ect) that came with a dessert and a table side meal that also came with dessert and a snack everyday. We did bring some snacks with us (which kept us from completely starving the night we travelled- we still needed a real meal). Here's H at dinner the first night, cute as ever. We ate at Town Square and the food was so good we went back the last night for our last meal before travelling home...
ARGGHHH matey!! Various parks opened early and closed late on different days for resort guests and given our nocturnal lifestyle of sleeping til noon (people who know me know I am up at 5am everyday!) we mostly took advantage of the late nights. And Hailyn never really adjusted to Orlando time so midnight was really 9pm Vegas time... I should mention she napped in her stroller (TIP! Disneyland strollers are great to rent, but Disney World strollers are AWFUL! we are SO grateful we had our jogging stroller and ryan fixed it- that story later) because she could lay all the way down. We draped her with a blanket to keep the cun out and the people and she slept two hours in her stroller!My awesome traveller! While she napped Ryan and I did the parent swap and went on the grown up rides- the 10% she couldn't do:) anyhow here she is after WALKING onto the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. The longest we waited on any ride was 20 minutes for Peter Pan...
LOVE BIRDS! Cinderella's castle is gorgeous- we got at least 100 pics of the castle alone it's beautiful! oh, Hailyn was asleep in the stroller for this pic:)
The seahorse from Nemo- H LOVES seahorses...and sharks...and fish... the aquarium is beautiful!
SAFETY FIRST! Saw a Disney fire truck, H was being silly...
TEACUPS! H LOVED spinning fast- ryan and I were not so sure...:) she also LOVED It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Winnie the Pooh, and basically everything we took her on she loved. We also saw a ton of shows and she loved those. More to come!
We tried to leave the park but we got roped into this section and we weren't able to leave! we were held hostage and forced to watch the electrical parade. Fortunately H loved it- even at 11pm...
I'll try and do better about consolidating and not going off on tangents- jus don't want to forget! Happy summer all!!
2 comments:
Yay! LOVE Disney!! Can't wait to see more pictures (seriously, I want to see them! : ) )
looks like you guys had a blast! so cute all those pics. i started a new blog just for you darling. lol we need to get together soon for lunch or something!
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