Saturday (March 8):
This was our travel day. We had originally planned to leave about 6 that morning and drive the whole way to Disney. Well, we couldn't sleep Friday night, so we left at 3am! :) It actually worked out really well, because the kids slept the whole way to Mobile! We had a pretty uneventful trip down for the most part. The only stressful time was when we stopped in Lake City, Florida for lunch. The town was way busier than we thought it would be, and we got a little stressed out finding our restaurants where we were going to get food!! :) It all worked out, though, and we arrive in Orlando between 3 and 4. Oh...I did forget that our GPS took us to the wrong hotel to begin with! We ended up in Downtown Orlando (which was nowhere near where we were staying). We finally found our hotel and got checked in.
After getting checked in, we headed out for dinner. We found an IHOP and just ate there. After dinner, we went to Downtown Disney for a bit! We had a great time, and it really put us in the mood for Disney. The girls were really sad as we were leaving that night because they thought we were going home. We assured them that we were just getting started and had 5 days in the parks! That cheered them up!
After spending some time in Downtown Disney, we headed back towards the hotel so we could go to the grocery store to get snacks. The grocery stored was packed, but we got what we needed.
We then went to the hotel room and got ready for bed!
Sunday (March 9th):
We planned to go to church at the early service at 8. Keith made it, but the girls and I did not. We slept in a bit and took our time getting ready. Keith got back to the hotel about 9:30. We packed up to get ready to go (we were only staying in this hotel 1 night because our other hotel wasn't available that saturday night). After we got ready to go, we headed to our first park of the trip: Animal Kingdom!!!
We were so excited for our first day in the parks!!! The first thing we did after arriving at AK was to get our fastpasses. We got a fastpass to the safari, It's Tough Being a Bug, and the Nemo show.
Our first stop was the safari! We did this last year, and we really enjoyed it again this year!
After the safari we met Chip n Dale!
After meeting Chip n Dale, it was time to grab some lunch. We were in the mood for pizza, so we chose Pizzafari! it was really good for a quick service meal, and I would definitely eat it again.
After lunch, it was time to head to It's Tough to be a Bug. The show kind of scared the girls, but they made it through, and it obviously didn't bother them too much because they are still talking about it.
We had a lot of time to kill between this and our next fastpass, so we decided to just explore the park and take everything in. Here are some pictures of things we did around the park.
After some exploring, we were ready for a snack! I got a frozen lemonade, Ava got an ice cream Mickey, and Kate Rivers got a frozen banana...Keith didn't get anything. We enjoyed our snack. We were really tired though (since we lost 2 hours of sleep the night before due to the time change and changing time zones). We decided to skip our last fastpass and head back to the hotel and call it a night early.
After leaving the park, we stopped and picked up fast food. I got Panera Bread (my new fave). Keith and the girls got Burger King. They were soooo slow at Burger King, and had several people in front of us complaining, but we finally made it back to the room! We knew we needed to get some sleep because Monday was going to be a big day in the Magic Kingdom!!!
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