A couple of weeks ago, we headed to Disney for the most fabulous six days. We kept the trip a secret from the boys for 6 long months. We finally told the boys that we were going a couple of days before we went. This worked out well because we didn't have to hear, "Is it time yet?" a million times leading up to it. We probably only heard it a couple hundred times! :) I think they were most excited for the airplane ride though!
Thanks to our direct Southwest flight, we arrived in Orlando by noon. The plan was to quickly go check in to our hotel and then go directly to Magic Kingdom. It took forever to get to the hotel though. The line at the airport for our shuttle was so long, so we didn't get to our hotel until around 2 I would guess. The boys were so happy though and didn't complain a bit that we had to wait in line and I had absolutely no snacks or drinks for them.
We stayed at the Wilderness Lodge and it ended up being great. We knew we wanted to be close since we were taking an unpredictable 2 year old. And, we knew the boys would LOVE the boat ride that takes you from the hotel to the Magic Kingdom, where we spent the majority of the time. And of course Joel loved the campy feel of the hotel itself. When Hudson first saw the hotel, he was so excited that it was all made out of Lincoln Logs! :) He thought it was so cool! They even had Lincoln Logs in the lobby to play with!
We also rented a stroller from Magic Strollers. It was $80 for the week and was super clean and nice, and both boys spent a lot of time in it (not sleeping unfortunately!). It was a must have and was waiting on us when we arrived.
Harrison does not look happy in this picture, but it's because he's focusing on Mickey Mouse at Cinderella's Castle doing a show! Do not interrupt him, not even for a picture! :)
Our trip planner had already set us up for our fast passes that afternoon, so we hit those before we had our first character dinner. The first ride was Jungle Cruise! It was a good start.
Then, it was onto Thunder Mountain, where I thought Hudson might be a little scared to ride, but in fact, that kid has no fear. He LOVED it. Harrison was too little, so we did the switch rider and Hudson rode it twice, once with me and once with Joel. Of course we loved it too! I took lots of pictures of Hudson's reactions...I loved seeing him having so much fun!
I found a look out point with Harrison and we watched Joel and Hudson ride Thunder Mountain from it. Harrison had fun seeing them on it. He was a little upset he didn't get to ride it (he would have loved it too, but they are sticklers for height requirements!), which made me sad for him, but there were really only a few rides that were like this. By the end of the trip, he was telling his Mickey that he wasn't tall enough to do things. Poor buddy!
We had to book it out of Magic Kingdom because we had dinner with Cinderella at the Grand Floridian at 6 pm. This was one of the things that we tried to change before the trip because we knew it was just going to be too much for one day, but we weren't able to change the reservation. While we were trying to run out of the park, we got stuck at a parade. The boys weren't too disappointed by this!
We were late for our reservation, but they still let us in thankfully. The character meals were the absolute best things we did. We got to see most all of the characters the boys wanted to see, and didn't have to wait in any lines!
We had not been at the character dinner for 5 minutes when the evil stepmother literally grabbed Hudson out of his chair (he did not get a choice in the matter!) and made him dance with her. It was so fast that I could not even get my camera out fast enough and when I did, the setting was messed up and all the pictures turned out so dark you can't even see anything. It was such a bummer! But Hudson ate it up!
Then we saw Prince Charming...
And then of course the main event, Cinderella! Even if you have boys, you should still do this one! My boys loved it...they like princesses too (and will probably hate me later in life for these, but they really did love this).
So we learned very quickly with Harrison that if the character came by while he was eating his precious food, he was not about to get up and take a picture with them! He was not scared a bit, but he loves his food so much! Ha! So, a lot of the pictures are of just Hudson with the characters because of it! We made Harrison give Cinderella a hug though...
Then the mean stepsisters came by and they were a hoot! Love their faces!
The evil stepmother came back for another picture!
My favorite picture of the night! Ha!
We also had an autograph book for all the characters to sign, and that was really fun for the boys. It has a place for pictures to go, so I'll print all of these out and put them in the book next to their signatures and I think they will love going back and looking at them all!
After dinner, we decided to hop on the monorail and head back into the Magic Kingdom to do a few more things. It was fun being there at night. We didn't stay too late that night because we wanted to stay on top of sleep. Or at least that was the grand plan. We took the boat back to the hotel and the boys actually went right to sleep! So much excitement for one day!
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