INTROs
As many have said we so much enjoy reading other trip reports that we can't resist writing our own. So without further delay, here's mine.
There's 3 of us.
Myself, my wife and our beautiful 4 1/2 yr old daughter who is always ready for a good time and lives for the moment. In this trip report I'll call her A1 since it became apparent during our trip that her favorite character and princess is Aurora. For the past couple of months we've been telling A1 about our trip to Disney but being 4yrs old she really never knew when we were leaving. All she knew and told everyone we were going to Disney and going to meet Aurora, Mickey, Peter Pan, etc... Oh, and btw, my wife's favorite character is Eeyore (don't ask cause I don't know either) so I'll call my wife E1 throughout this report. Fortunately, she's liked Eeyore all her life so it has nothing to do with me. Eeyore is best described as "an old grey donkey".
I'll include picts thoughout this report but since we just returned it's going to take us a few days to organize all the picts. Also, throughout this report I'll include a few personal tips that we learned for our next trip. I call them personal tips because while they will help us for our next trip they (hopefully) will help others but they also may not help others. Take them or leave them as is.
E1 and I really put thought and planning into when we wanted to go to Disney. Since E1 is in pre-school it makes it easy to get her out of school whenever we want. We decided that a couple weeks after Easter and a few weeks before kids get out of school was the perfect time. It turned out that the crowd level was low (at least to our expectations) and the weather was sunny and high 80's each day. Also, since E1 received a pretty nice bonus from work in January '07 this Disney trip was sort of a spur of the moment trip. We left Tuesday, May 1st and returned Saturday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo & E1's birthday) Keep that in mind for later!
We decided to stay at the Polynesian. After doing extensive research mostly on this board we thought that we all would like the Poly the best. A1 loved the pools. Surprisingly A1 loved the "quiet" pool the most. She's not swimming yet so the opportunity to float with E1 and myself without being splashed was the best. A1 did go down the volcano slide ONCE with me but not again. She was too afraid after the first time.
Tip - E1 and I agreed that it was worth every penny to stay at a deluxe resort and being on the monorail line. It certainly made getting around very convenient AND if anyone has ever watched Illuminations from MK at ~9pm and then fireworks you know how long it CAN take to get out of there. Well, since we were able to take the monorail back to the poly we got back in about 40 minutes TOTAL. I thought for sure it was going to take up to 2 hours.
Stay tuned for Day 1!
As many have said we so much enjoy reading other trip reports that we can't resist writing our own. So without further delay, here's mine.
There's 3 of us.
Myself, my wife and our beautiful 4 1/2 yr old daughter who is always ready for a good time and lives for the moment. In this trip report I'll call her A1 since it became apparent during our trip that her favorite character and princess is Aurora. For the past couple of months we've been telling A1 about our trip to Disney but being 4yrs old she really never knew when we were leaving. All she knew and told everyone we were going to Disney and going to meet Aurora, Mickey, Peter Pan, etc... Oh, and btw, my wife's favorite character is Eeyore (don't ask cause I don't know either) so I'll call my wife E1 throughout this report. Fortunately, she's liked Eeyore all her life so it has nothing to do with me. Eeyore is best described as "an old grey donkey".
I'll include picts thoughout this report but since we just returned it's going to take us a few days to organize all the picts. Also, throughout this report I'll include a few personal tips that we learned for our next trip. I call them personal tips because while they will help us for our next trip they (hopefully) will help others but they also may not help others. Take them or leave them as is.
E1 and I really put thought and planning into when we wanted to go to Disney. Since E1 is in pre-school it makes it easy to get her out of school whenever we want. We decided that a couple weeks after Easter and a few weeks before kids get out of school was the perfect time. It turned out that the crowd level was low (at least to our expectations) and the weather was sunny and high 80's each day. Also, since E1 received a pretty nice bonus from work in January '07 this Disney trip was sort of a spur of the moment trip. We left Tuesday, May 1st and returned Saturday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo & E1's birthday) Keep that in mind for later!
We decided to stay at the Polynesian. After doing extensive research mostly on this board we thought that we all would like the Poly the best. A1 loved the pools. Surprisingly A1 loved the "quiet" pool the most. She's not swimming yet so the opportunity to float with E1 and myself without being splashed was the best. A1 did go down the volcano slide ONCE with me but not again. She was too afraid after the first time.
Tip - E1 and I agreed that it was worth every penny to stay at a deluxe resort and being on the monorail line. It certainly made getting around very convenient AND if anyone has ever watched Illuminations from MK at ~9pm and then fireworks you know how long it CAN take to get out of there. Well, since we were able to take the monorail back to the poly we got back in about 40 minutes TOTAL. I thought for sure it was going to take up to 2 hours.
Stay tuned for Day 1!
Looking forward to it!
