blabbermouth
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Hi everyone, welcome to our trip report! I haven't written one in many years, but I feel like now is the time to write again! I did medium-ok with taking pictures, I forgot quite a few food pics, but between my husband and I the google photo album has 522 photos so I think that will be enough to get us through a full trip report. We had a really really very good trip: we went hard at the beginning, and started sleeping in more towards the end and only had one morning that didn't go quite to my original plan. My 6 year old loves the podcast Ropedrop & Parkhop, so she was a bit disappointed we were never quite able to ropedrop, but we got to the parks early most days and found that we could accomplish a lot anyway and we did a lot of park hopping.
Dates and weather (I am old, nearly 40, weather is a talking point): We were there from April 19-26, with 6 day parkhoppers. We come from the west coast of Canada so it is a long day of travel each way to get to WDW and the time change was not in our favour. (Sorry for the Canadian spellings throughout, eh?) The first two park days (Sat and Sun) were super hot and not too busy, then Monday was cold enough DH had to buy a spirit jersey to make it through Fantasmic! The rest of the week was wavered between a bit too cold for us adults to swim and just warm enough to swim. This is a very technical measurement of temperature, right? I get confused going between C and F, so I just don't even try anymore. No matter what it was amazing to get away from chilly, drizzly PNW weather.
Hotel: We stayed at Pop, standard room, #7127. Will talk more about that later. DH and I have stayed there twice before (over ten years ago) and I have stayed at AoA once with my sister when we ran the Princess Half in 2015. We have been to DL twice with our DD as well, this was her first time to WDW. She knew about it for quite a few months and was super excited for the trip, enjoying watching some youtube videos and planning with me. She was most excited for: Slinky Dog Dash.
Here we are (one of very few family photos we took........) with one of our favourite rides in the background:
Ok, that sums up the intro, I'll put the travel day in the next post right away, and maybe get through Day 1 Part 1 as well. We got home after midnight PST (3am EST) last night so today is mostly a stay at home and relax day, although DD did get up and was ready for gymnastics this morning so we took her there and grabbed groceries while she was there. Plus we also had to pick up our dog! Gratuitous dog pic below, plus a bonus of her with her brother who was babysitting her while we were gone:
Dates and weather (I am old, nearly 40, weather is a talking point): We were there from April 19-26, with 6 day parkhoppers. We come from the west coast of Canada so it is a long day of travel each way to get to WDW and the time change was not in our favour. (Sorry for the Canadian spellings throughout, eh?) The first two park days (Sat and Sun) were super hot and not too busy, then Monday was cold enough DH had to buy a spirit jersey to make it through Fantasmic! The rest of the week was wavered between a bit too cold for us adults to swim and just warm enough to swim. This is a very technical measurement of temperature, right? I get confused going between C and F, so I just don't even try anymore. No matter what it was amazing to get away from chilly, drizzly PNW weather.
Hotel: We stayed at Pop, standard room, #7127. Will talk more about that later. DH and I have stayed there twice before (over ten years ago) and I have stayed at AoA once with my sister when we ran the Princess Half in 2015. We have been to DL twice with our DD as well, this was her first time to WDW. She knew about it for quite a few months and was super excited for the trip, enjoying watching some youtube videos and planning with me. She was most excited for: Slinky Dog Dash.
Here we are (one of very few family photos we took........) with one of our favourite rides in the background:
Ok, that sums up the intro, I'll put the travel day in the next post right away, and maybe get through Day 1 Part 1 as well. We got home after midnight PST (3am EST) last night so today is mostly a stay at home and relax day, although DD did get up and was ready for gymnastics this morning so we took her there and grabbed groceries while she was there. Plus we also had to pick up our dog! Gratuitous dog pic below, plus a bonus of her with her brother who was babysitting her while we were gone: