Thank you guys for reading!! This was fun to do, and it was cool to know I had someone following along
(Yikes! They moved the smileys around!)
Awww that is so cool to have a bonus day like that! How fun! Thanks for sharing your trip with us! Your little guy is too cute!
Allyson
Thank you! It was a ton of fun. So many memories I'll never remember them all!!
AWESOME ending!! What a fantastic trip & special memories for you and the little guy. Thanks for sharing. This was a great report!!
Thanks!!! I am so glad you enjoyed it.
Aww fantastic ending
I'm so happy you guys got to go to WDW and DLR all in one trip!! I'm not jealous at all!!
That's a fantastic quote from your DS!! Yay for Disney magic!!!
LOL I can hardly believe it myself! Yep I'm officially nutso
I really hope he remembers how much fun we had.
Awesome bonus day!! Thats so cool! WHens the next trip?
We probably won't be back to WDW for 3-4 years. We've done day trips to DL the past two years, so we'll probably continue with that though. For "big" trips, next year we're planning an Alaska cruise with Gramma & Grampa, and then after that I have a million ideas! Seattle, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Washington DC, etc. I grew up vacationing in an RV every summer, and although I have no desire to camp
I would love to go back to all the national parks I visited as a kid.
Oh my goodness. What an awesome extra day. Your son is too cute and its so magical that you squeezed in an extra day and made his wish come true.
-Becca-
Thanks!! I guess I wasn't quite ready for the magic to be over!!
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So, final thoughts. I am SO glad I took the plunge and did this trip. I was super nervous going in... kept thinking about all the things that could go wrong. I'm actually kind of glad it was just the two of us! I didn't have to worry about planning around anyone else's wants/needs/energy levels. We were free to do whatever, whenever. Even though I didn't get to do a lot of what *I* wanted to do, you know what, it's ok. I wanted my baby (sorry, big boy) to have the time of his life and that MORE than made up for anything that I might have missed.
I think when we do go on another trip, I will be a lot more comfortable. Even with allllll the research and planning, it was still kind of like flying blind. I hadn't traveled with him alone before, didn't remember much at all from my previous trip... landing in MCO and having to figure out the monorail and find ME, then once we go there, figure out the buses... not to mention navigating the parks!! Our first day in Epcot, I got soooo turned around in FW (more than once) - it looks so nice and easy on the map
I'm glad I felt confident about all that stuff going in, otherwise I would have been completely overwhelmed!
I keep thinking about all the stuff we didn't do... man you could go for a month and not get bored. Here are my mini-reviews of what we did mostly for my future reference!
Dining
ASMovies food court - not bad! Turkey & muenster sandwich was super yummy. Kids meal breakfast was a ton of food. Fresh whole fruit was relatively cheap, DS liked grapes which were $3.29 though. Pizza delivery was handy although not impressed w/ the pizza.
AK - Flame Tree BBQ - delicious! Would go back here again.
MK -Cosmic Ray's - good variety. Weird setup, different food at each set of window and you can't cross-order. Good burgers/hotdogs and roasted chicken was decent (like supermarket roasted chicken)
MK - Pinocchio's - eh. DS wanted pizza and that was where to get it.
Epcot - Mother's Day Brunch - Decent but overpriced, would skip if I were there for it again.
DHS - Sci Fi Dine-In - Very fun, would go here again, but not a must-do more than once.
Ohana - Would definitely do again! Breakfast was yummy and characters were great. Atmosphere seems less "sterile" than Chef Mickey's (from pics) and family style is the way to go for us.
Pirate & Princess Party - this was fun, but we didn't really do much "party" stuff other than the parade & fireworks. The line-free evening was great though! I'd have to think pretty hard about whether a party would be worth it to do again, it was almost $90.
On the list for next time
Pirate Cruise - if he's not too old. I couldn't get a reservation for this that worked with our schedule. I wish they had an afternoon option, 9:30 was too early for our rest mornings, and it wasn't enough time to hit a park beforehand.
Shows - I didn't get to see any shows and would have loved to see Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, or Nemo.
Fantasmic & Illuminations - I was worried Fantasmic would be too scary and I've seen it at DL plenty of times, so I didn't schedule it in. Would like to see it there someday. We switched our Epcot night to MK so we didn't see Illuminations either. It seems to get mixed reviews, kind of a love/hate, but I'd like to see for myself!
DTD - didn't make it over there at all!
Water parks - DS is kind of at an in-between age and size right now. Next trip he'll enjoy this.
That's all I can think of for now... well thanks again for reading!!! Have a magical day! (lol)
DS and I have been reading the Little House books lately, and I can't picture Pa as looking like anyone else!
Then we had some lunch and DS was very excited to spot a hidden Mickey in his lunch (BTW food is more expensive there... Mickey Bars are $4 and kids meals are $5.99!!!):
) but we had so much fun and it was cool to do something totally spur of the moment, after all the planning I'd done for WDW!
