Disney - Part 1

People!  We are 2 weeks from Christmas!  I am frantic, excited, happy, blessed, a tad overwhelmed, etc., but we will survive and make it.  Last week of school before Christmas break is upon us and then the festivities begin.  The biggest excitement recently was our first family trip to Disney World!  My mom had a business meeting at the Grand Floridian Resort.  She and my dad headed down on Wednesday, November 30.  We headed down the next morning with my sister-in-law, brother and the cousins.  As we entered the Magic Kingdom gates, Paige said, "I can't believe we are here"!  It was awesome.  We could feel their excitement and we were excited.

We arrived at the Grand Floridian and headed into the lobby which was bustling with guests.  There was a huge Christmas tree, a guy playing Christmas songs on a piano and a shed-sized real life Gingerbread house, made out of real gingerbread!  It smelled so good. (Remember you can click on the pictures to see them bigger).

We checked in and got to our rooms.  We already had plans to head to Downtown Disney for dinner at T-Rex Cafe and walk around a bit.  We rode the kids train, the merry-go-round and got a glimpse of our first "characters" even though they were plastic the kids were still excited.  

The kids were so funny too.  We took the bus to Downtown Disney and even that was exciting.  The only not fun part about that was it took at good 20 to 30 minutes to get there from the hotel and each time we got on, we had to fold up the strollers.  Everyone was great and we were ready for Mickey the next day!  The kids got their Disney jammies on and we got to bed for the BIG day tomorrow.