Let me get that right out in the open. I am honestly not a big Disney fan. I don't have a room dedicated to Mickey Mouse (or even a shelf of knickknacks!), I don't own every Disney movie (I don't even have all the classics!), and I don't dress head to toe in red, white and black. In fact I think I only have two sweatshirts and three hats from WDW. AND YET, I absolutely love Walt Disney World in Florida. I don't know what it is about that place, but I just adore it. The details, the cleanliness, the happy and helpful people. Yeah, pretty much everything. And it doesn't hurt that the rollercoasters are pretty much as much as I can handle. So, even after taking a trip with the boys last year, I had the urge to go again this year and so back we are going. We're even staying at the same resort - Wilderness Lodge. Now I am fully convinced that part of what I love about a Disney vacation is the planning. I'm a planner/resear...
Wednesday was supposed to be our "rest by the pool" day. And we did get a good amount of rest-time in. BUT, we also decided to head on back to the Magic Kingdom for the late afternoon/evening and try to make it to the Wishes! fireworks. The boys had never seen fireworks before, so this was to be a bit of an experiment prior to the Halloween party fireworks on Friday. Resting and swimming was wonderful, as always, and I was so happy to see both boys so happy and confident in the water. They just couldn't have been happier. As luck would have it, just before I was thinking we'd need to start getting ourselves together to head to the park, an afternoon downpour started. We were actually "trapped" in the pool for a few minutes, because it was coming down so hard and fast that we would have been freezing if we'd gotten out! Showers, clothes, and a couple of snacks later, we were off to the park. We took a cab to The Contemporary resort, and then ...
Despite the title of this blog, we actually started our vacation at SeaWorld. We stayed at the Renaissance Hotel at SeaWorld which was extremely nice. The lobby was modern and nicely decorated, complete with waterfall and central aquarium display. It was open to all floors and many (most?) of the rooms opened up onto walkways that circled it. Our room was a king bed room with one bed and a sofa that changed into a bed for the boys. Plenty of room for us and the television got the local PBS station which was great for us in the mornings. There was also a fabulous pool complete with mini-waterpark which the boys loved. Two big watersides and one tiny waterslide. And of course we went to SeaWorld where the boys enjoyed both big shows (dolphin & orca) as well as the kiddie rides.
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