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Re: berriesnpie
It was totally fabulous! Thanks for your suggestions. You rock. I've been trying to decide whether to write a trip report on disboards, but it seems pretty straight. Thoughts? Anyway, as promised, feel free to live vicariously through our trip:
We had a hilarious flight to Florida, US Air didn't seat anyone together, including us so we were each surrounded by kids w/o parents and a manic mom wearing a foot-high hairdo. I was more entertained than E, who probably wanted to punch someone. When we checked into Magical Express (totally awesome), the staffer called us both beautiful princesses, looked at E's face, and then they both cracked up. So I called her my butch princess for the rest of the trip.
After we checked into the hotel, we took the boat, I mean "river cruise" to Downtown Disney and had dinner with E's adorable aunt. Perhaps this is TMI, but we also had the first of my really funny "bathroom incidents", where crazy things happened everytime I went to the bathroom in disney (including men trying to get me to leave the men's room I'd accidentally visited, me falling into the toilet, kids crawling into the stall w/ me, and women breaking the door down). When we got back to our room we had a message on the phone--mickey and minnie saying congratulations on getting married!
We woke up early Saturday, had some hot-tub time, narrowly avoided a riot at the bus stop (wow, people take their Epcot seriously) and spent the morning at Animal Kingdom. This was my moment of vindication. E didn't want to go to AK originally b/c "we have a zoo in DC" but this ended up being her favorite part of the trip. We never waited more than 10 minutes for any ride, she took a million pictures of the animals and adorable baby dykes saw our just married buttons and we sooo excited for us. We rode the water rafting first, so then we had wet bottoms the rest of the trip, but as a bonus, we never got hot. E was really nervous to ride Everest (she hated roller coasters) but looooved it. We had a really great lunch at Tusker House and then went home for a nap.
We spent the evening at Magic Kingdom. There were so many people there that we were both a bit overwhelmed and the lines were super-long. We had our first dole whip, rode a few rides and did a lot of people watching. The best part was watching the fireworks from Splash Mountain.
Sunday we slept in, played in downtown disney, had some more hot tub time, and went to Animal Kingdom lodge for an amazing dinner at Jiko. They were so sweet to us and the hostess was from the same neighborhood in Pretoria where I lived. The food was so. so. so. good.
Monday we had a marathon day at Epcot. It was the flower festival so there where lots of beautiful topiaries of disney characters. Mission Space was so intense that it took us the rest of the day to recover! Our fantasies of being astronauts are officially over. But all the other rides were super fun. I was relieved to see Monsanto's sponsorship of the Land pavillion had been replaced by USDA. We ate and drank our way around the World Showcase until we were too tired and full to move.
That's it. Oh, Mickey and Minnie also left us a card. We spent our last day eating beignets and shopping. We were both grinning and in a great mood on our way home. I hope you get to go back to disney world soon!
i'm butting in, but thank you so much for this awesome report!!
I've always told DW that disney is only a place I'd go w/ kids, but you are totally changing my mind on that. I'm so glad you had a great time!
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Oh...it sounds like you had a great time! YAY!!!
CT - No, there are so many things that you can do as an adult that you can't do with kids (or it makes it more challenging/time consuming!) I've been 30+ times and only 1x with kids (and at least half of those 30, I was an adult!) and I LOVE it!
I think once you have kids, you loose "me-time" on all vacations (unless you are visiting friends/family willing to babysit.) It gets easier once the kids are 3-4 and potty trained b/c you could do a cruise with childcare or an all inclusive resort with childcare (something we hope to do one day!) Disney does have childcare facilities at the deluxe hotels for kids 3y and up. I've heard good things about them, but never used them.
We got our "kid free" time at Disney by renting a condo off property (a 3br/3ba condo costs less than a hotel on Disney property.) It is nice to put the kids to bed in their room and then have an entire condo to hang out in.