Yep...in just one month we will get on a plane and fly to the land of magic...where Mickey and Minnie and all their friends live. I am so excited! We've been planning, making reservations, reading books, meeting with Junebug, getting input from friends who've been there...This will be unlike any vacation we've taken with our girls. We've gone to some great places...Colorado Springs is still my favorite...but this is different in a lot of ways. First, we are flying! That was a last minute surprise from Kearsdad. The last time we flew was to visit my parents when they lived in Florida. The girls were just preschoolers. I got to thinking about it and realized I haven't flown since before 9/11. Kind of weird....I'm not going to think about that anymore. So, that is difference #1. All of the "real" vacations we've taken (vacations to destinations, not to grandparents' houses) have involved long car rides, rest stops, fast food in the car... When we get there, we are renting a car to go to and from the parks.
Parks. Plural. That is difference #2. We have been to Disney before. I went many times growing up. But until I was in high school, Disney meant Magic Kingdom only. I've been to Epcot three or four times. But all of those trips were one day trips. Maybe once we did two days, but I don't really remember. Kearsdad has been a handful of times, but also under the same circumstances. The last time we went was when the girls were little. We went for a day with my mom and dad. That meant we got there late morning after driving from their house in North Orlando. And we left around 6. Not that we could have done a lot...the girls were babies. Seriously, Disney by stroller. (A couple of years later, my mom and I took them for about 3 hours one day while Kearsdad was in a meeting in Orlando. It was a complete waste of time and money...) So here we are on that trip so many years ago...
You can't see us too well. Sorry. The pictures are in one of those old fashioned cheap photo albums that will probably eat my photos up if I don't get them out of there....but I just havent done it yet. Excuse the terrible scrapbook technique. It was before I was educated!I can't wait to post our new pictures. They will be much better. I promise. And there will be lots and lots of them! In just one month!
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If you read my last post, you will completely understand how much I wish I was going to Disney!
Hope ya'll have an absolutely amazing time!
I bet ya'll will gavea GREAT time!!
We have taken the kids once and gone once by ourselves and much preferred that LOL. I can't wait to take the kids when they get older and can truly enjoy it!
Y'all will have a ball! Be sure to call the dinner reservations and have dessert at the California Grill one night. (Yep, they are pricey!) You want to ask when the fireworks show is the evening you plan on making reservations, and then make yours about 45 minutes earlier.
Sometimes, they take you right up, sometimes you have to wait a few minutes. When the magic kingdom has the light show, they dim the lights and the entire thing is narrated in the restaurant. It's amazing!!!
Have a blast!
Debbie
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