Alright here we go!
Sorry about the delay but the husband got sick the last day with the flu (swine or regular...who knows) and then last Monday my daughter came down with the stomach flu. I have been cleaning and disnenfecting the house to make sure everyone else stays as healthy as possible.
We left on Friday the 6th out of O'hare. Our flight took off at 10:59 and we got into Orlando early at a little before 3. My mom, who joined us, took another airline out of another airport and conveniently arrived in Orlando within 10 minutes of our arrival. Yahoo! There was no wait for the Magical Express Buses and we only waited about 10 minutes to board. Stopped off at Pop Century first, followed by Coronado Springs, Carribean Beach, Kidani and then Jambo House. Lots of stops! We were only staying at Jambo house one night in a studio and then switching over to Kidani in a one bedroom.
We arrived at Jambo and went to get our folder as I had done the pre-check in. We were supposed to have a value view but we were pleasantly surprised when we got to our room and saw this...
What a nice surprise!
We had an ADR for Boma so we got ourselves situated in the room and went down early to see if we could be seated which was no problem at all. Boma was fantastic. We were told by our waiter that we could go to the "pods" in any order but some people didn't seem to get that message and there was always a long line at the first pod and you would get dirty looks if you went to a pod without waiting in that line. It can be a little confusing.
After dinner it was still failry early (6:30) so we decided to hit up a theme park. I asked our daughter where she wanted to go and believe it or not she wanted to see the "big ball". So we hopped on the next bus to Epcot and granted her wish. Went on Spaceship Earth and then stopped off at the Character Spot and found...
And surprisingly in the hallway we found (I'll label for those who don't know who they are)...
Max (Goofy's son...sorry about the blurriness)
Mr. Penguin (from Mary Poppins)
After that we made our way over to Finding Nemo and rode that. Played around in that area for a while
but skipped Turtle Talk with Crush. Our little one is just 3 so she doesn't ask questions or really understand it so we opted out.
We then headed over to World Showcase to find a good spot for Illuminations. Along the way we found...
We ended up in Morrocco mostly because they had a belly dancer and my husband was enjoying the show. She was really quite good and on a couple occasions brought the kids out with her to teach them. Illuminations was amazing as always. I know I'll get flamed for this but I prefer Illuminations much more than Wishes. Sorry, personal preference.
Afterwards we went back to the hotel to rest up for our next day. Had no idea where we were going (which is odd because I am a HUGE planner) so we all decided to sleep on it. In the morning we decided to go to...
The pool is amazing!! I think the Jambo value villas are smaller than Kidani but how much are you really in there anyway! LOL
She's slightly under the weather right now so I hope lots of rest and OJ today will make her feel better for tomorrow.
Hope you have a great time on your trip!
at a quarter to 3. Let the packing begin!
