When I was in the throws of business travel, sitting at airports across the country ... I used to see these families tromping back from vacations at Disney World. Anybody whose spent anytime at an airport knows how to recognize them ... kids in mouse ears, amped up on disney 'magic' usually accessorized in face paint, mickey tshirts and carrying some stuffed creature from a disney/pixar movie. The parents, on the other hand, looked dazed, exhausted and in need of a vacation to recover from their 'disney experience' vacation! Well if you were at O'hare yesterday ... that family would have been us.
We had a whirlwind trip, leaving on Sunday and returning yesterday, Thursday. That gave us three solid days: morning at the parks and afternoons by the pools. It was the perfect amount of time. We did Magic Kingdom for 2 days and Animal Kingdom for 1 day. Actually all told, we didn't do a lot of rides - but what we did was a blast and the boys loved it, including a sword fight with Peter Pan and Wendy, breakfast with Goofy, Chip (the better 1/2 of Chip and Dale) and Minnie, dinner at Epcot China Resteraunt, and lots of rides on the roller coaster. So if you are ever thinking about going ... give me a buzz ... I've got lots of great tips!
One of the coolest park rides was the safari ride at Animal Kingdom. We got up close to so many cool animals in their enviroment. Charlie does a great hippo imitation now ... see picture to the left.
We made the mistake of going on the Kilamajaro water raft ride after the safari - early into our day - and getting absolutely soaked. It took a couple of new tshirts and the sun coming out to get us back into our festive mood. PS - Charlie has declared never to go on that ride again!
One luxury we - the adults of our group - did do was put the boys into Simba's camp at our hotel. I was worried because they were so exhausted after a long day at the park and pool. Chris and I enjoyed a nice bottle of South African wine and a South African meal at the upscale resteraunt at the hotel. We returned to get the boys only to be told that they weren't done yet (by the boys - not by their counslers) so off we went again for another glass of vino!
Now for that vacation to recover from our vacation ... we have another trip to Florida in the works, just Chris and I ... sans kids later this month for Chris's work. It will be welcomed!
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