she sure does enjoy dressing up in Disney attire. We finally got photographic proof that she does smile!
Oh my goodness, this is awesome!! I love their matching Disney costumes. Looks like they had fun! We had a little Disney princess in our house for Halloween this year, too. (But much littler than Evie.) My niece was Cinderella.
I keep telling my family I am going to diversify and have us stay at new deluxe resorts, yet I always circle back to the Polynesian and Animal Kingdom Lodge. It’s hard not to, though, when I left my third stay at the resort as excited and in love with the place as I was the moment I first saw the floor to ceiling glass window.
It's so hard to stray from a resort that's so perfect! We've made some fun for ourselves by trying to check out different resorts every time we go, but you really can't mess with a good thing like AKL.
I’ve been through some long security checkpoints over the years, but I think MCO takes the cake as one of the worst. It just seems to wind around forever!
I think you're right on this! I haven't been through all that many airports in my life, but I've never seen a security line quite like MCO.
Because we booked this flight kind of late, I didn’t check the seat map and had no idea some window seats don’t actually have a window!
Smooth moves, Alicia.
Oh no!
Give a mom a kid-free flight and an empty wall and she’ll use it to nap!
Hah that's hilarious! But totally justified. Get your sleep where you can, Mama!
As well as visited Minnehaha Park:
This looks beautiful!
Their kids were still in school, it was a worknight, and we all had to travel 30-40 minutes to reach a middle location.
It wasn’t convenient and for that I appreciated the effort even more.
Sounds like an awesome Dismeet! It's really special when you can make those meets happen, so I'm sure that they appreciated you being able to make the time for it just as much as you did!
Dugette’s husband was kind enough to take a photo of us at the end of the meal to memorialize the occasion:
Awesome! Great picture of a great-looking crew! Oh my goodness, I can't believe how grown up Izzy looks! I've followed along with some of Dugette's TRs and she was so little in them!!
And I enjoyed my actual window this time around:
Much better
She was from North Dakota, traveling to Orlando for a conference and asked Alex if he knew where her hotel was located. She also asked if he knew where the taxi station was, and if you could walk to any restaurants from her hotel.
It was like the sweet woman from Satu’li Canteen all over again; poor Alex was probably having déjà vu!
Alex must just have one of those faces!
The most memorable part of their conversation, though, happened right as we were taxiing. She turned to both of us and went, “Have you seen this Mary, Queen of Scots movie?”
“No.”
“Oh, well I expected it to be light. But it was actually quite sad!”
Several minutes later, as Alex and I were walking to baggage claim, Alex turned to me and asked, “Didn’t Mary Queen of Scots die?!”
“She didn’t just die, sweetie. She was beheaded.”
“That’s what I thought.”
Oh. My. Goodness.
Yeah, beheadings are a bit of a buzzkill I guess. lol
Shortly after we got on the road, my mom called me. (This was at about 11:45.) Her and the kids were already at Shades! Apparently, she had left at five in the morning, changing and feeding the kids quickly and loading them in their seats so they could sleep for a few more hours.
Wow! Your mom is superwoman. It must be so great to have someone who you can trust to be great with your kids when you're away. My grandmother was like that for my mom when I was young.
Nice spot! I can see why you were pleased with the updates they did at Shades.
Landon insisted on telling me ad nasuem that Nana made him pancakes most mornings. (“You never make pancakes, and you NEVER give me as much syrup as Nana does.”)
Hard to measure up to Nana and her pancake habits. Grandparents always get to be the fun ones!
A stuffed French bulldog named Gaston officiated.
At some point in the trip, Alex was going to have to take Landon and Evie to CVX to pick out a pup.
Good grief. Let’s not think about the fact that we were in Gift Shop Central, where almost anything else in the world was readily available.
Nope, my kids were deadset on a drugstore toy.
Oh no! That's too funny!