Disney- Day 1

A few weeks ago (October 24th - October 28th), we took the kids to Walt Disney World with Nana and Papa Lindvall.  I was a little skeptical at first…with both kids still taking naps….I wasn't sure how everything would go.  I was anticipating lots of meltdowns with the possibility of us not being able to go into the park everyday because the kids would be too tired.  Fortunately, the kids proved us wrong and did great!  They were so excited and had been looking forward to this trip for a long, long time.  We had a great time there!  We still talk about our trip to Disney everyday.  

I took way too many pictures, so I'm doing separate posts for each day we were there.  

We left our place around 5:45 on Thursday morning and took a 7am flight out of Columbus to Orlando.   Clearly someone was a little excited about riding on a plane and going to Disney….

 We got to our resort around 11 or 12 that day and headed straight for the pool after a quick lunch while we waited on our rooms to be ready.

They had different activities going on around the pool.  Nana and Elli won a little cat, Spooky.  

 She was clearly excited.  This cat came with us everywhere around Disney and she still sleeps with it each night.  She loves this cat and always has it with her!

 They also had sidewalk chalk for the kids….the lady working gave Connor a little pumpkin.  That was also a hit!

 The kids swimming in the pool….

 Elli going down the slide!  She loved this and giggled the whole way down!

 Connor and Papa in the water.  As you can see, Connor was starting to fall asleep.  Soon after this picture was taken, Papa and Connor got out of the pool for a quick nap.  We played Bingo (an activity that was going on) while Connor slept on Papa by the pool.

We were able to get into our adjoining rooms around 2:30 and we all took naps.  Elli was so excited to get bunk beds.  She ended up sleeping on them for her nap that day and didn't sleep on them the rest of our time there (of course).  I had to sleep on the top bunk and Scott had to sleep on the bottom.  

Above is a picture of our room….below is a picture of the entry way of the hotel.  If you go over by the windows and down a little ways, you are able to see some animals.  We actually lost Connor here during check-in for a few minutes.  Really, we ran around panicked until we found him (a little misunderstanding of who was supposed to be watching him)!

We ended up waking the kids up around 5:15 or 5:30 to go to Downtown Disney!  Connor trying to wake up after his nap….

 We met up with our good friends, Kelli, Garrett & Ansley, who moved to Orlando last February.  We had dinner with them, dessert, and let the kids run around.  We also did some shopping!  It was SOOO good to see them and I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing them again this spring!

 We got back to our resort and got the kids to bed finally around 10:45 or 11:00.  It didn't take them long to fall asleep!  We had a really fun first day!