So to do a quick recap of our travels…..
Original plan: arrive in Orlando on Wed. 2/2 around 3pm, explore the resort, then dinner at Boma
What ended up happening: rented a car to drive to Virginia barely escaping the blizzard on Tuesday 2/1. Spent a nice relaxing day with my parents and enjoyed a yummy lunch prior to going to the airport. So when all is said and done, we were actually going to arrive on the same day, just much later in the evening. Too late for our ADR at Boma (bummer since we all love that place)
I enjoy the airport in Washington DC much more than the one we typically leave from up here in MA, so I was a happy camper. And since we had been with my family, I already felt like I was on vacation. And our little girl loves looking at the airplanes at the gates.
Time passed pretty quickly, and uneventfully, at the gate. We were still flying Jet Blue so pretty soon, we were getting all settled in for the flight.
Skip ahead a few hours and we had landed in Orlando, picked up our rental car and checked into our room at Port Orleans Riverside. We decided to grab a quick meal at the food court and decided on a make-your-own-pasta dish to bring back to the room. I think we grabbed a cheesecake for our dessert. Of course we picked up a refillable mug to use also. After all the traveling from the past two days, we were tired and I wanted to make sure our munchkin got in a good night sleep. We had our first day at Disney and a favorite character meal ahead of us.
This was our first time staying at POR and we were pretty pleased with it. The rooms were a bit bigger than at the POP and we enjoyed having two sinks to use.
If we had only planned our trip a few months later (or picked POFQ to stay at), we could have had a newly refurbished room. But I have always loved the look of the mansions, so I was happy we got to stay here.
Anyways, we had a good night sleep and pretty soon it was morning and it was time to start our Disney vacation!
Here is a view of our building.
and the building next to ours.
Our little girl was all set to go. Of course she brought along her little friend from our last trip, Annie.
She had been talking for weeks about how she was bringing little Annie to meet big Annie. Love it.
See ya later, Port Orleans.
We’re on our way to
for our morning meal. We had a date with some important friends. For those who followed along on our previous trip, you might recall that we got our trip started with a character breakfast at Hollywood & Vine and it was a huge success. So we wanted to get our trip started in the same fashion this time around. Only this time, instead of meeting JoJo and Goliath, Handy Manny and Special Agent Oso would be joining Leo and June. Our little one was very excited to see Oso.
Here we are just sitting on the bench, waiting for our names to be called.
We even got in a nice family shot.
We were soon seated and before we even had our drinks, someone was already stopping by for a hug from our little girl.
As you can see, she is already all smiles with “her friends.” She is definitely in her element at these character meals. I wasn’t sure we would be able to get any food in her because Leo was soon stopping by our table.
After signing the book comes the hug and kiss.
After Leo’s visit, my hubby slipped away to try to put together a plate of food for our little princess. We stayed at the table since June was skipping her way over.
And just as June’s visit was coming to an end, the music started blaring as it was time for the dance party. Our little girl definitely remembered what she needed to do here as she followed June up to the front and made her self comfortable. Do you see her? She put herself smack dab in the middle.
and of course she kept her place right next to June as they paraded around the restaurant.
Ecstatic as she is making her way back to her seat.
Dad finally made it back with some food for our little one and she just had to fill him in on what he missed. She especially wanted to ask him if he saw her dancing with her friends.
We got a few bites of food into her little belly before it was time for her to jump out of her seat for another hug.
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I'm here!! So glad you decided to write this TR!
Glad you made it though!
I just wish Special Agent Oso was there then!
that photo. It’s right up there as one of my favorite photos and moments from this trip. It was so great of the characters to spend that much time with her and make it so worthwhile. She was talking nonstop about it all day and for days to come. All about how big Annie wanted to go home with her and how she wanted to keep little Annie. I surely had a grin on my face almost as big as my daughter’s.
Anyway, another great report so far! 
