Disney - Day 1

Monday: Our plane left bright and early Monday morning - 5:45a.m. to be exact! This meant we had to leave our house at 2:00a.m. for the 2.5 hour drive to the airport. I thought we would have plenty of time but by the time we parked our van in the economy parking lot, took the shuttle to the terminal, got checked in, checked out luggage, and went through security, they were actually loading our plane! No waiting around for us although I would not have wanted to cut it any closer!!!

The girls have flown one other time (the last time we went to Disneyworld) but this was Brax's first time. He was a little nervous about it but also pretty excited. He did fine although afterward he said it was "scary" and the whole time we were in the air, he wanted "to go back down!" We flew to Milwaukee and had about an hour layover and then got on another plane for Orlando.

We got to Orlando about 1:00p.m. and got our luggage, picked up our rental car (minivan, actually!) and headed for our hotel. We stayed on Disney property at Pop Century. I know you can get some pretty good deals on houses and condos off-property but we feel the closer to the action the better. I would reallt recommend looking into it if anybody goes in the near future. It really isn't too much more expensive than off-site and you get some great benefits!

We checked in and then headed to the food court for a snack. Nate and Julia took the kids swimming while I unpacked our room and got things organized. We had a dinner reservation that night for around 6:00 so we went ahead and got around and headed that direction about 5:00. The hotel that the restaurant was in was really nice and our dinner was good. It was kinda a crazy place. The kids got to do some horse races and we all stood up and did the Hokey Pokey in the middle of dinner.

We got back to our room about 9:00. My mom had to catch a later flight and was supposed to arrive via Disney Transportation later on so the kids went to bed and I stayed up to meet my mom. She finally arrived anout 11:30p.m. after landing at 9:40p.m. I was beginning to get a little worried! We got her something to eat and then we were off to bed. Breakfast with the Princesses bright and early Tuesday morning!!!