This is approximately how many miles we walked this weekend on our maiden voyage
to the land of Mouse. One of the conditions of moving to Florida was that we got a house with a guest room, a house with a pool, and tickets to go to Disney World. We 2 out of 3 ain't bad. So this weekend, we finally sucked it up, threw down enough money to make my head spin (something not easy to do) and heading westward to the land of Mouse. And it was Fabulous. We surprise Zachary with the trip, telling him that we were going to go shopping at a big outlet mall in Orlando. This was enough to ruin his entire month since he hates shopping with a passion. The trip seemed to take forever because 1. I hate keeping surprises a secret and 2. I really really really wanted to go to Disney. When we finally got off the
interstate, Zachary started asking questions about Orlando and it was really hard to keep up the charade, then once we saw the Pearly Gates, I mean the entrance to Disney, the game was up. And I yelled surprise and was rewarded with the biggest smile I have ever seen.
We walked awhile, rode some rides, scarred Zachary for life by letting him ride Space Mountain, sweated buckets, saw Princesses and Poohs....all in all had a fabulous time. Alden and Eleanor got their first pair of Ears, Justin and I developed an addiction to pineapple floats (yum), and Zachary raised his arms on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and declared that roller coasters aren't so bad after all. It was wonderful to finally take the kids to Disney- the place is just so fun for my cynical self, I can't imagine what it must be like for the kids. All I know is this- if you try to reach us during the next few weekends, you might want to leave a message 'cause we're going to hanging with the Mouse. We've got to get our money's worth of those passes.
to the land of Mouse. One of the conditions of moving to Florida was that we got a house with a guest room, a house with a pool, and tickets to go to Disney World. We 2 out of 3 ain't bad. So this weekend, we finally sucked it up, threw down enough money to make my head spin (something not easy to do) and heading westward to the land of Mouse. And it was Fabulous. We surprise Zachary with the trip, telling him that we were going to go shopping at a big outlet mall in Orlando. This was enough to ruin his entire month since he hates shopping with a passion. The trip seemed to take forever because 1. I hate keeping surprises a secret and 2. I really really really wanted to go to Disney. When we finally got off the
interstate, Zachary started asking questions about Orlando and it was really hard to keep up the charade, then once we saw the Pearly Gates, I mean the entrance to Disney, the game was up. And I yelled surprise and was rewarded with the biggest smile I have ever seen.We walked awhile, rode some rides, scarred Zachary for life by letting him ride Space Mountain, sweated buckets, saw Princesses and Poohs....all in all had a fabulous time. Alden and Eleanor got their first pair of Ears, Justin and I developed an addiction to pineapple floats (yum), and Zachary raised his arms on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and declared that roller coasters aren't so bad after all. It was wonderful to finally take the kids to Disney- the place is just so fun for my cynical self, I can't imagine what it must be like for the kids. All I know is this- if you try to reach us during the next few weekends, you might want to leave a message 'cause we're going to hanging with the Mouse. We've got to get our money's worth of those passes.
September 18, 2007 at 4:32 PM
Looks like you guys had a blast.