Disney World Day 1

We are back!  Ok, we were back on 5 days ago, but I have been doing laundry and recovering (yes it takes that long!).  As usual I am going to write about each day to make sure I document everything I remember.  This trip fell the week after Kindermart.  For those of you who don't know I co-chair a children's consignment sale at Julianna's preschool.  This year we had record breaking sales and made about $22,000 for the school!  I pretty proud of all those involved, it's an amazing (not to mention completely exhausting) week.  So when Brian mentioned leaving Saturday night after I was done I laughed.  No way!  Not this uber-organized, meticulous packer.  I can't leave it up to Brian to pack the car, kids, clean up the house, in order to leave as soon as I walked in the door.  But the more I thought about it the more I wanted to get to Disney World!

So Saturday morning I left it all in Brian's control.  He packed everything up, got the kids ready, cleaned up the house, and was ready to go.  We left as soon as I got home, booked a hotel on the way, added a day of tickets for Sunday, stopped once for dinner and before we knew it we were in Orlando!  Ready to start our 7 day adventure at the Happiest Place on Earth!

Sunday morning we were up bright and early to head to our "real" hotel for the week.  The Beach Club.  Since we were there so early our room wasn't ready and we decided to head off to Animal Kingdom. We rode a few rides and found out that Julianna is 44 inches tall.  Which means she can ride BIG roller coasters.  Being a thrill seeker (and never wanting to be left out) she braved Mt Everest.

Then we rode Kali River Rapids and few more rides.  It was soooo hot!  We were ready to go and got a text our room was ready.  Perfect timing!  We headed back.  Now I picked this resort because they boasted a 3-acre water wonderland, complete with a huge water slide.  I figured it would be perfect for our little fishes (well Julianna is a mermaid, or a dolphin, or a shark depending on her mood) and it was!

We decided to check out the pool in the late afternoon.  Brian took Jake and Julianna down the water slide, then we all went down (no height limit...so you know Grace had to do it too).  Brian went down first and then Grace.  She came out backwards, and didn't really like it.  Then we just let Jake and Julianna do the water slide over, and over, and over.  I heard the lifeguard radio down to the one at the bottom.  Tell the little girl that just went down she can't dive head first into the slide.  Yep, that would be Julianna.  Of course!

After we pried them from the water slide we headed to bed for a good nights rest.  We had a Princess breakfast to look forward to!