We arrived home Sunday night from 6 wonderful days in Disney World!
Prepare yourself for some picture-heavy blog posts over the next few days, because we have 750 pictures to sort through and share. I promise I’ll only post a small portion of them. And feel free not to look at all of them if you’re not a grandparent. :)
We had such a fun time! It was so nice to be just the five of us and spend some quality time together. The kids were fantastic and were at great ages to enjoy the rides and experience the magic of all the characters there. I will always remember the looks on their faces as they met some of their favorite people (Mickey, Minnie, Snow White, Rapunzel, Winnie the Pooh, and on and on…)
But, let me start from the beginning. We told the kids over Christmas that we were going to Disney in May and got them a countdown clock so we could all anticipate the trip together. It started at like 123 days to go in December. As the numbers ticked down, the anticipation rose!
Day 1… We picked up Logan and Audrey from school on Tuesday and headed straight for the airport. All happy faces ready for Disney! What fun!
Riding the bus from economy parking to the airport.
At the airport, things didn’t go as smoothly. There was a presumed fire near O’Hare that resulted in the cancelation of hundreds of flights out of Chicago. Thankfully our flight was only delayed by a few hours, but the airport was a zoo! Honestly, the kids’ longest wait time for our entire trip was to check in at the airport (1.5 hours)!
Then Emily missed her step on a moving walkway and got a huge goose-egg on her forehead. Poor dear.
Finally we were on board the plane and ready to head to Florida! The kids were really excited to be riding on an airplane, and they did fantastic after such a long day.
We arrived The Polynesian pretty late due to the flight delay and didn’t get into our room until 2 am, but we were impressed with the size of our room and the balloons, stuffed animals, and welcome message from Goofy that were waiting for us.
Day 2… On Wednesday, we slept in a little but the kids were eager to wake up and take in the view. We loved it.
We got dressed and explored the resort. It was so nice! Our building was called the Rarotonga, the building on the left. It was nice to be really close to the monorail too.
We took a monorail ride to see a little more of the surrounding Disney area. Logan will still probably say that his favorite part about Disney World was the monorail.
Then we put on our swimsuits to enjoy the pool and the slides! The Polynesian has two pools, but the kids were eager to go to the Volcano Pool where there’s a huge waterfall and volcano with a slide into the pool.
Logan did the volcano slide approximately 2,463 times.
Then we headed back to our room to rest and clean up for our luau that night.
The Spirit of Aloha Luau :)
The luau was a lot of fun and the kids really enjoyed watching the hula and fire dancers. They were mesmerized.
And here’s a short video from the night.
Tomorrow I’ll post pictures with our first day at the Magic Kingdom!
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