Our Disney World Trip

[Tigger4399]

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Saturday: We arrived in Orlando early as our flights were about 10 minutes early a piece! I was a little concerned as neither of the boys had flown before, but they did fantastic. We had to wait in line for about 20 minutes to catch the Magic Express to our hotel, but that seemed to go by pretty quickly. Since we had already gotten checked in online, once we arrived at the hotel, there was about a 10 minute wait to get our check-in packets. We stayed at the All Star Movies resort. The room they gave us was in the Mighty Ducks Section. This was one of the furthest away from the lobby and buses, but I knew that would happen as we didn't pay for a preferred room. We did however discover something fantastic! If you are staying at the All Star Movies in the Mighty Ducks Section, if you walk to the end of the building closest to the street, you can walk around the corner and catch the buses for the All Star Music! It's closer than the Movies lobby and busses and usually less crowded as well! We spent that evening at Downtown Disney and ate at the Rainforest Café which was great and the portions were HUGE.

 

Sunday: We went to the Animal Kingdom. We first went and got fastpasses for the Safari and then while we waited, we hopped on the train and went to the conservation station. We were inside the building and Jiminy Cricket was there and then just walked away. I assumed he was going on a restroom break, but my hubby insisted that he just abandoned his line without a word. My dad wandered over and looked out at the petting zoo and said there was only 1 goat out there. Then we took the train back to the station and hopped on the Safari. The Safari line was the only place we encountered a rude cast member everyone else was super nice! It was amazing and my boys loved it. After the safari, we went to Pizzafari for lunch, their food was good and everyone was nice, but most of the building was air conditioned but the "porch" in the back isn't and those were the only seats available. We then went to try our had at Expedition Everest and the fastpasses were out for another 4 hours and the line was a 90 minute wait so we did the Flick 3-D Show in the Tree of life and decided to call it a day since everyone was getting really hot and kind of cranky. We had dinner at the Whispering Canyon Café which was fun. I was a little perturbed that we showed up 20 minutes early for our reservation and checked in and it was almost an hour before we were sat, but after that things went better. My dad and hubby weren't sure about the ketchup thing or anything and weren't having fun at first, but then they changed their tune and started to get into it. Their food was really good as well!

 

Monday: We did Hollywood Studios. We sent the guys in ahead to get the fastpasses for Toy Story. We watched some of the High School Musical show and then went and did the movie ride. When we got done with that it was time to split up. Hubby and dad were going to the Big River Grille and Brewing Works and mom and I took the boys to the Playhouse Disney Play and Dine at Hollywood and Vine. The boys LOVED this character dining! After lunch, we went back to the room for naps. My hubby made me give up our Toy Story fastpasses as he had no intention of going back. We went back anyway and my dad and I took my oldest on the Tower of Terror and then dad and I did Rockin' Roller Coaster and then later we all did the Walt Disney Story movie and that was really neat. My 5 year old loved learning about it. I was bummed that we didn't get them on Toy Story, but they didn't know any better.

 

Tuesday: We had breakfast at the Cape May Café. I had forgotten it was a character breakfast and my kids were thrilled. The food was great so the adults were excited too. We took a break on Tuesday and rented a car and drove out to the Kennedy Space Center. No one did the tour as it was pretty pricey, but they got some pictures near the entrance. We then went to Cocoa Beach along the pier. My boys (all 3 of them) loved it. It was the first time my 2 boys and my husband had ever seen or been in the ocean. My oldest didn't like the way the water tasted, but he loved everything else there was there.

 

Wednesday: This was the day my dad was most excited about. We went to Epcot. My mom and I went on ahead as the guys were turning back in the rental car. We went to Innoventions and I grabbed fast passes for Test Track for 3 of us. We went over to Imagination with Figment and then right next door to Honey I shrunk the audience. Then it was time for Test Track. We went over and my dad, son and I did test track. My 5 year old loved it! We then went back over to Innoventions. Then it was time to stand in line for the "Special Character Meet and Greet" for Disney Visa card holders. We saw Minnie and Goofy and my 3 year old LOVED it, I think he has a crush on Minnie! While we waited in line for that, my dad had to leave as he was doing DiveQuest. The rest of us went over and did the Nemo Clam shell ride and then Turtle Talk with Crush. After these two things, we went over to the Coral Reef for dinner. My boys got to see my dad Scuba Dive and my mom took a picture of them watching him. Mom and Dad took the boys back to the room and hubby and I went over to Magic Kingdom and had some "us" time shopping for souvenirs.

 

Thursday: Tommy's Birthday!! We had reserved today and Friday for the Magic Kingdom. We started off by going to Chef Mickey's for breakfast. Tommy said that was one of his favorite meals because of Mickey. That was the only time we saw Mickey that whole trip. After breakfast we went into the Magic Kingdom. We first got his gift card for his birthday and let him pick out some things that he wanted. Then we walked over to Adventure Land. We did the Magic carpets while my dad got fastpasses for the Jungle Cruise. Tommy loved "driving" the carpet. After that we went over to the Tiki Room and enjoyed the show. We finished and had 10 minutes until our fast pass time so we let the boys do the remote control boats. We did the Jungle Cruise and decided to head out for naps as we planned on doing the light parade and fireworks that night. We got back to the hotel and my mom and I got lunch at the Music cafeteria and walked it back to the room. Then after eating, she and I went over to DownTown Disney to do some more shopping. Here the sky opened up and POURED!!! We lingered and then walked through the rain to try to find a cake or something resembling one. I ended up calling the cake hotline to see where all I could just pick up a basic one as Planet Hollywood didn't have one and was told our cafeteria at the hotel. We stopped and picked that up and some gummy Mickey's to use as "candles" and headed back to the room soaking wet. It started to get nicer. We decided we could go back and everyone got their shoes on and it started pouring again. We ordered pizza and hung out in the rooms and promised Tommy the next day would be better!

 

Friday: We got to the Magic Kingdom and ate breakfast at the Main Street Bakery. Their food was great and huge portions! I went on ahead and got fastpasses for Space Ranger Spin. I had the others meet me in tomorrow land and we did the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor. This was even fun for adults. Then we went over and did the Space Ranger Spin. My boys LOVED it. When we walked out Stitch and Buzz Lightyear were standing there so we did pictures. We were going to go on Astro Orbiter, but the line was 40 minutes so we bypassed it and went over to the speed way. My dad and boys went on the cars and my mom and I went and got fastpasses for the Winnie the Pooh, and we got "Surprise Fastpasses" that popped out with these for Mickey's Philharmagic show. When the guys got done driving, we did the show and Tommy told me that was his favorite 3-D show that we had done and Jonathan was enamored with it as well. We then did the Pooh ride which they both loved. We ate lunch at Pinocchio's Village Haus because A) we were right there and B) the boys LOVE Pinocchio. While we were eating, I grabbed fastpasses for the Peter Pan ride. We then decided it was nap time. After naps we went over to the Grand Floridian to the Grand Floridian Café. I didn't want to miss the parade that started at 9. Our reservations were at 7. We arrived right at 7 and were seated by 7:10. We didn't receive our food until 8:00 and then we had to keep asking for water refills and drinks and for our checks. We left there at 8:55. We arrived at the Magic Kingdom on Main Street at 9:15. The good thing was that Tommy and I got to sit clear in the front of the monorail and he got his Co-Pilot's license. Since we got there late, the parade had started. I knew we missed half but the boys had no idea. After the parade, we walked over to the bridge to Tomorrow Land to steak out a place for watching fireworks. After we saw the fireworks, we went over to check on Frozen Lemonades as my dad had been craving one! All the shops had started to close up even though it was an Extra Magic Hours evening. We walked over to see if we could still use our Peter Pan fast passes from earlier that day. We did Peter Pan and then the little soldiers were getting pretty tired. So we left, but they had fun.

 

Saturday: This was the day we left so we decided we would take pictures of the boys at our hotel with all the Movie stuff. I had forgotten until the night before about the Wake-up call from a character so I called and set it up and told Tommy to answer the phone that morning. I woke him up out of a dead sleep and he answered it on like the 5^th ring and said Hello, and there wasn't anyone there. I was kind of disappointed for him, but again he didn't know. Mom and the boys and I walked around the hotel and took pictures. I think my favorite one was them in the little RC racer from Toy Story. We then went and picked up the other 2 guys and went to breakfast at the Trails End at Fort Wilderness. We had to wait a while for our check as there was 1 waitress working the entire restaurant it seemed. We then had to wait for a boat and catch a bus back to our hotel to hurry and check out. Our Magic Express bus was scheduled for 12:15 and we arrived back at the hotel at 12! We made it by the skin of our teeth! The nice thing was that our driver told us which stop we would need to get off at based on our airline and we had plenty of time to sit and wait for the plane.

 

All in all it was a GREAT trip. The kids had fun and loved every minute of it which was the whole idea anyway. We are thinking about doing another one in 2 years when Jonathan turns 5 as well. We are thinking about maybe doing the Cruise next time though.

[Tiff77]

Jun. 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM

Sounds like you had a blast. I can't wait til I can take my kids to see it now want to go even more.

[Leasha43]

Jun. 24, 2009 at 5:24 PM

Thats awesome you guys had such a great time!