Chapter 2 of the Holidays

Ok, so where was I? We are on our way to Disney. The pics below were taken with the windows down. The weather is beautiful and already 70 by 9:00am. We stop at a McDonald's and grab lunch by the Drive-thru and we are still on our way. At 11:45, we are in Disney!!! We pull up to our hotel, Disney's Pop Century resort.

Matt went to check us in and the kids and I headed off to the bathroom to change into shorts and t-shirts. I never expected for them to have a room ready for us this early in the day. We really just wanted to get checked in so we could have our tickets and get started visiting the parks. Surprise!!! They did have our room ready. We headed over to the room and unpacked the Jeep and then we headed out to Animal Kingdom. It felt very weird going to Animal Kingdom first. Every trip we have taken we have always gone to Magic Kingdom first. We walk in the park and wow, there are people every where!!! We head straight to Expedition: Everest, but all the fast passes are gone and the wait time is 90 minutes. So, we head over to Dinosaur and grab fast passes and a Baby Swap ticket. We get to ride Dinosaur several times and enjoy ourselves immensely. But, this will be the only ride we do here today. Instead, we head over to the Animal Kingdom Lodge. I have always wanted to check out this hotel and I also wanted to see the Christmas decorations. It was beautiful there, but I don't think it is a hotel I would ever like to stay at. From there we head to Disney's MGM Studios. I haven't been to this park since I was pregnant with Banastre and I was really looking forward to the thrill rides!!

*side note* It won't let me add any pics right now, so I will add more in another post...

We make it to MGM Studios and finally get inside. It's an Extra Magic Hours night for Disney resort guests and we fully intend to use it. We head first to Tower of Terror and get our fast passes and then two baby swap tickets too. Matt and I both take turns riding with Elizabeth and then Matt gets a fast pass for Rockin Roller Coaster. I had one too, but decided to do Tower of Terror again with Elizabeth instead of riding Rockin by myself. After these rides, the park is closed to regular guests and we decide to go to the Great Movie Ride. With this completed, we head over to the Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights. This is the most amazing Christmas Light display I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Millions of lights and they are even choreographed to music that plays every 15 minutes. Snow is being blown as you walk down the street and it's just amazing. We stopped and got Matt an adult beverage and Elizabeth and I split a Sprite with a flashing light cube inside. We stopped for lots of pictures and noticed how the mood here was completely different than in any of the other parks. No one here was in a rush and there were smiles on every ones face. Kids were playing in the "snow" and we were all singing the Christmas carols that were being played. This definitely helped put me in the Christmas mood!

After this we slowly made our way to the bus stop and back to our hotel room. We were all very very very tired and were asleep within minutes of our heads touching our pillows.

Up next...Epcot and lots of food!!!

I'm stopping now to add some pics and them will continue with more on our trip!