It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Tis how we would describe Disney.
Before we start into it I want to preface it with
thanking my parents who made it all
possible. I want to be clear it was a
great trip where we had a ton of fun that
we will always remember, so please take my other comments in jest in that they
are amusing observations.
To our youngest daughter Kinsley. I cannot wait until you have an 18 month old
child. I pray each day that that child
lives life with as much “enthusiasm” as you.
Accordingly when you have an 18 month old, we are going to take you to
Disney. We will also stay on resort and
let you enjoy 25 min bus rides from each resort while your child also expresses
the enthusiasm through screaming and thrashing around. Oh and we will for sure bring our stroller,
in hopes your child can get mad every time we put her into and then fall asleep
finally as you try to exit the park and have to get her out. Also, note to Disney, you have a great place
and you print money. Maybe you can come
up with a bus system that allows open strollers so we don’t have to wake up
kids to get on and also so dad doesn’t have to be the guy constant folding it
up and running into everybody with it.
Hopefully your husband will take your screaming child outside too when
said child freaks out in every show possible.
We know all you really wanted was to be able to walk around,
unfortunately while you are a very skilled walker for your age, your legs have
the length of a 9 month old and don’t get you anywhere very fast.
To our oldest daughter Emma – we hope to do the same when
you have a 4 yr old. We hope that your
child is also as enthusiastic as you. We
hope that she freaks out if her opinion isn’t followed also and that she follows
the similar pattern with the whole falling asleep as we leave the park as you
did too. Hopefully she enjoys the little
mini water park at the hotel as you did and plays for hours in it (see I am not
totally snarky). We hope that she enjoys
meeting princesses also and parades and sleeps the entire flight home. Hopefully your husband doesn’t get sunburned
at the beach as I did and have to deal with a huge blister on the top of his
foot and sunburn everywhere from when the sunscreen that he applied 4 times
washes off in the water.
We really did have fun.
Emma got into the princess and parades the most I think. She enjoyed some of the rides, but she is not
the most adventurous kid in the world, rollercoasters are not her thing for
sure. Luckily she had just surpassed the
magical 40 inch requirement that allows you to go on the majority of
rides. Kinsley had fun too as she loves
animals, but really wants nothing more in life than to walk around herself and see the world. Emma still talks about Disney and how she
wants to live there (she says that about
many things she likes). We also had a
great day at the beach as you can see in clearwater, sans the lighter
complected folk getting some crazy sunburns.
Oh and the flight back, though it was delayed was phenomenal. Emma literally slept the entire time and Kinsley
a decent chunk .
Below is a litany of pictures from our travels as well as
emma’s bday. More about the girls later
