Disney, Part 1

Our trip to the land of magic and fantasy started out Saturday morning. After I took Bailey to the American Pet Spa for her week of pampering (well, kinda), we headed to the airport. Once we got there, Jen noticed something in Abby's hair. After looking through Abigail's hair, she suspected that she had lice after finding what she believed to be nits. It has been going around our school on a number of occasions, and I guess it was just our turn. We've dodged the bullet on this one time and time again (we strongly recommend the tea tree oil shampoos that repel lice..haven't been using it since school's been out..big mistake). Needless to say, things weren't starting out well.


After a fairly uneventful plane ride (with Emma beginning her first airplane ride with a big Weeeee and looking in the clouds for Jesus), we stopped at a Walgreens for some hair treatment. Also, we made it to the grocery store for our weeks worth of supplies to share with Jen's parents and her sister's family who were all sharing a big 6 room house with us. Of course, this turn of events put a small wrench in my Disney plans... but we survived. A couple hours after hair treatments we finally made our way to Epcot. We jumped right into 3 attractions (Spaceship Earth, Nemo & Friends, and Turtle Talk) all within an hour and made our way to the lagoon for the fireworks show. Oh yea, if you get to the park really late (like after 7p) there is no one at the parking booths and they say head right in. We were fairly disappointed with the Epcot fireworks display and beat the crowd out before the show ended.


Sunday had us up bright and early and heading to Disney Hollywood Studios for a very successful morning. We quickly learned about Central Florida heat and humidity as we were sweating just waiting to get in and we couldn't take pictures for 5 minutes because the camera was all fogged up. Yikes! At rope drop, we went and rode Toy Story and then walked into the Little Mermaid with one minute to spare. Next, it was off to watch Jedi Training (and the beyond scared Emma who literally hid behind me when Darth Vader came out). Next we snagged a fast pass for Star Tours and made it just in time to follow the moving line into the Playhouse Disney show. Once done, we just hit our FP time, and got a FP for Toy Story for later in the afternoon. Next, we walked right up on the High School Musical show and then made our over to the Indian Jones show. After that finished we put our Star Tours FP to use and got right past the long lines. What a great concept! After all of that, we made it back to the house for lunch and an afternoon rest. Not bad for 3 hours of park time.


Later that afternoon we headed back w/ Jen's parents and put our Toy Story FP to use, hopped on the Back Lot tour, caught the last showing of Beauty and the Beast, and experienced the Muppet 3D show. It was a non-Fantasmic night so the crowds were fairly light around the park (except for Toy Story, which stayed busy all day long). We ended the evening with some Mickey ice cream bars and watched a little of the American Idol experience on their outside big screen. All and all a perfectly timed day for our first WDW park.