Disney World – Day 4

Click here for Day 1 – Downtown Disney Click here for Day 2, part 1 – Hollywood Studios Click here for Day 2, part 2 – Magic Kingdom Click here for Day 3 – Animal Kingdom Day 4 was my 35th birthday and we had planned to spend the morning in Magic Kingdom, have breakfast [...]

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Disney World – Day 3

Click here for Day 1 – Downtown Disney Click here for Day 2, part 1- Hollywood Studios Click here for Day 2, part 2 – Magic Kingdom On Wednesday we slept in kinda late and ate breakfast down in the hotel’s restaurant.  We made plans to go to Animal Kingdom based on your comments and [...]

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Disney World Day 2 (Part 2)

Click here for Day 1 (Downtown Disney) Click here for Day 2 (Hollywood Studios) We spent about 8 hours at Hollywood Studios at a leisurely pace and loved every minute of it.  This had been a good first full day at the parks for us.  Nothing was stressful about our vacation so far and the [...]

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Disney World – Day 2 (part 1)

Day 2 was a great example of why the first week in December is a fantastic time to go to Disney World.  We hit two parks in the same day, didn’t have to wait in line for more than 10 minutes for any of the rides (we only needed one fast pass and it was [...]

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Disney World Day 1

Like I said, the drive to the airport was full of questions about Disney World and Max’s excitement was building.  It was so worth it to keep the trip a surprise but I could tell that some uneasiness was also stirring in him.  Maybe it was too much to take in at once because after [...]

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Family Close By

We retreated to Pops & Nana’s on Sunday because it’s the one place on earth that I’ve been known to walk into someone’s house, say a quick hello, go straight to a guest bed and fall asleep for hours, then wake up to a homecooked meal.  It’s where I needed to be. Plus, the painters [...]

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Back Home from Disney

Our trip to Disney World was fantastic and we made great memories with Max.  His reaction to the surprise made us chuckle, though.  We set up a scavenger hunt to find three clues in hiding places like this: The game was exciting.  Hearing him read the clues out loud without help was really fun.  But [...]

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Magic Bound

Keeping the Disney World trip a surprise from Max has been so. much. fun. Earlier this week we started giving out clues to our destination.  He remembered that we would be missing his Christmas recital/play on Monday so, as far as I can tell, he thinks we are going somewhere for just that day.  Not [...]

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