July 20
WE got up about 5:30am in Dalton to get ready to hit the road and were on our way by soon after 6am. We knew there was major road work through downtown Atlanta but we thought that early in the morning that it wouldn't be an issue, so we didn't take the bypass. Things were going well until the point were the i85 joins the i75. Suddenly we were in gridlock. The construction started there and went for 2 and 1/2 miles so we figured that it couldn't take to long. It only took around 20 minutes to get through it and we were on our way again towards the mouse's house.
Then we found out first hand how big of a state Georgia is. It took forever to drive through there, but finally we hit the Welcome to Florida sign. Things started getting exciting here.
Soon after we realized that the northern area of Florida on the i75 is pretty boring and that the Florida turnpike was still well over 100 miles away.
When we finally reached the florida turnpike everyone was pretty excited. Except my 5 year old who was passed out. We finally got him to wake up and put on the kids disney CD. They were dancing and singing to all the sings and really got us excited. We finally got off the trunpike and onto the 429 which took us to Western Way where we seen the Welcome to Disney World Sign. WE had had a picture of that on the desktop on our computer for month, but it really didn't prepare you for actually crossing under it. After that we turned unto West Buena Vista Drive and arrived at All Star Movie resort it was about 3:30 when we got there. The total time according to our GPS in the car was about 24:30 to drive there, including all stops.
Check in went quickly and we were up to our room which was on the 3rd floor in the Woody building. We had asked for the Buzz building but Woody would do just fine. We were surprised that the resort didn't seem to be to packed full of people as we had expected. We were planning on going to Downtown Disney that night so we un-packed some of our stuff, went for a little swim, had some supper in the food court, and finally waited for a bus to Downtown Disney.
We had excellent experiences with the bus's the whole stay. The wait for the Downtown Dinsey bus was the longest we had. We waited about 20 minutes for it to arrive. We just wondered around looking in some stores and taking in the sights. My kids loved the
Lego store and ended up buying a few sets of Lego for when they got home. We bought a few other things there and then headed back to the buses soon after 9pm.
We had an early night to bed that night as our next day was our first park day. We were going to Hollywood Studios.
We were going to cross the border at Sarnia. So we arrived there right at 5am. I was so nervous cause it was my first time. With our luck we ended up getting pulled over for inspection. We had to go in a building and fill out a form well another guy inspected our car. We were still out of there in about 15 minutes.
I'm a firm believer that was why someone figured out how to fly
*rub,rub*
