Sunset Cliffs
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- Apr 6, 2009
Im not sure what we were thinking when we decided to take our 21 month old to WDW. When we used to go to any amusement park and see all of the children melting down left & right, we swore to ourselves that we would wait until our kids were 5 years old before we would take them to the parks. 
We didnt plan on not being able to wait any longer and just throwing caution to the wind and doing it.
Lucky for us, we have a very good baby and he was able to hang with us through (most) of what we threw at him on this trip. Yes, there were some melt downs. Yes, there were some tears. Yes, there were some sleepless nights. But enough talking about my husband!
Just kidding, but in all honesty our son did very well and enjoyed himself. There were some very special moments on this trip that we would have missed out on had we waited until he was 5 years old.
If you did not read my PTR, here is a link so can read about our planning if you care to. You can see all the main characters & detailed info so that I dont have to post it again here. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2184382
Here are pictures of my little family. Myself, my husband Todd, and our son Dylan.
As for that celebrity sighting you are just going to have to wait and see who it was. No, Im not even going to give you a hint right now, although I will tell you that I thought it was a pretty cool moment! So we are moving on with the show and jumping right into Day 1.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Todd & I woke up at 5:30 am to finish packing for our trip. We had done most of the hard stuff the few days before, but there are all of the last minute things that you cant do until you are actually leaving. We had a lot of people coming through our house during the time we were gone (more on this later), & I didnt want all of them to know how messy our house could get!
We finished getting ready to go and woke Dylan up around 7:30. We got him fed and dressed, and our friend Josh showed up at 8:00 to drive us to the airport. We were very fortunate to get a flight out of the little airport in our city rather than having to drive to Sacramento or San Francisco (as we usually have to do) to get a flight all the way to Orlando. In fact, when booking the tickets we found out it was cheaper to fly locally than it was to just take the connecting flight from S.F. Weird! But very good for us as it saved us parking for two weeks and gas to drive there.
We left for the airport at 8:15 and arrived at 8:30. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 10:00, and of course we were early enough that there was almost no one in the airport. We walked right up to the counter and were checked in right away. We realized that today was Dylans 21 month birthday!
We had a ton of stuff with us (due to all of Dylans baby stuff) and I was really adamant about taking his car seat with us and gate checking it with his stroller instead of checking it through with our luggage. I have heard bad stories of the car seat being lost or badly damaged, and I did not want to arrive in Orlando to a missing car seat. So we had multiple things that we were going to have to haul through both airports that day. As Todd was paying for our 2 pieces of luggage (we were flying on United) he just happened to ask how much they would charge to have Dylans little suitcase checked rather than carried on. The lady said, Oh I wont charge you for it. I will just call it a necessary baby item. It was so nice & unexpected! It normally would have been another $25 for his bag.
We waited in the little seating area for a while and Dylan got antsy so we let him run off some steam. Todd took him on a few laps through the terminal. Dylan discovered how electric doors worked and Todd had to chase him outside a couple of times.
Electric doors!
After a lot of exercise, we got him back in his stroller with a snack. Out of the blue he looks at me and says no. This is the first time he has ever said that word! He usually says uh, uh when he is saying no, so this was new. Then he kept practicing it over and over all day long. Of course he had to learn that word on the first day of our trip! On top of this, he was not on his best behavior this morning so we were a little worried about how the flight was going to go.
Our flight ended up being delayed by almost an hour due to fog in S.F. and we were worried we were going to miss our connecting flight. We spoke to the lady at the counter and she said we should be fine, so we decided not to worry about what we couldnt control.
I just have to throw in that Todd came back from the using the restroom and made a really funny comment. I laughed and then told him I was going to put it in my TR. He was horrified and realized that he was going to have to watch everything that he said or it would end up getting written down.
So I promised him I would not share what he said this time, but no promises in the future. I will just tell you that his comment had to do with taking too many vitamins and the color of a certain liquid!
We finally boarded the plane after 11:00 and by now it is normally Dylans nap time. He was a little cranky but taking it all in as we boarded & got strapped in. He was on Todds lap and as we took off we gave him his juice to help his ears and he just looked out the window. Those small planes are very loud compared to the big ones and after 10 minutes or so he got a little scared. He turned around and hugged Todd really tight with his head on his shoulder, and he ended up falling asleep like that for over ½ an hour. It was so cute, and I couldnt get a picture because my camera was in the overhead bin. Todd was happy because its hard to get our active little boy to actually snuggle anymore. He woke up right before we landed and seemed to be in a much better mood.
We landed in San Francisco and collected all of our stuff. The plane parked out on the tarmac and we had to walk up this scaffolding to get into the terminal. Pretty interesting. We went to check the departure flights to see if we were going to make our connecting flight.
Do we make it on the next flight? Youll have to wait & see!
Chapters
The longest flight of our lives
Our home for two weeks
When do we get to start having fun?
Some unplanned magic
Meeting the Mouse
Dancing to the music
A leisurely start to the day
Boma
Enjoying the Lodge
Visiting a few countries in one day
A bear, a wolf, & some cheese sticks
The Mini-Meltdown
A Magic Kingdom Morning
The Bride with the Axe
Why does everyone like this place?
Its so peaceful here
Our bonus free day
An Evening outside the Parks
Our first Character Meal!
An Unusual Shopping Mission
A night at the Polynesian
DHS
Thats a huge turtle!
Not sure if it was worth it
OT ~ Dylans birthday & Halloween
Ending the day at Epcot
We finally rode a roller coaster
Another first at AK
Hey, is that ..?
ToT, finally!
OT update Getting ready for Christmas
OT update - Christmas
Fitting in another favorite
One last ride
Gee, do you think he likes the Ranch?
Going home.
We didnt plan on not being able to wait any longer and just throwing caution to the wind and doing it.Lucky for us, we have a very good baby and he was able to hang with us through (most) of what we threw at him on this trip. Yes, there were some melt downs. Yes, there were some tears. Yes, there were some sleepless nights. But enough talking about my husband!
Just kidding, but in all honesty our son did very well and enjoyed himself. There were some very special moments on this trip that we would have missed out on had we waited until he was 5 years old. If you did not read my PTR, here is a link so can read about our planning if you care to. You can see all the main characters & detailed info so that I dont have to post it again here. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2184382
Here are pictures of my little family. Myself, my husband Todd, and our son Dylan.
As for that celebrity sighting you are just going to have to wait and see who it was. No, Im not even going to give you a hint right now, although I will tell you that I thought it was a pretty cool moment! So we are moving on with the show and jumping right into Day 1.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Todd & I woke up at 5:30 am to finish packing for our trip. We had done most of the hard stuff the few days before, but there are all of the last minute things that you cant do until you are actually leaving. We had a lot of people coming through our house during the time we were gone (more on this later), & I didnt want all of them to know how messy our house could get!
We finished getting ready to go and woke Dylan up around 7:30. We got him fed and dressed, and our friend Josh showed up at 8:00 to drive us to the airport. We were very fortunate to get a flight out of the little airport in our city rather than having to drive to Sacramento or San Francisco (as we usually have to do) to get a flight all the way to Orlando. In fact, when booking the tickets we found out it was cheaper to fly locally than it was to just take the connecting flight from S.F. Weird! But very good for us as it saved us parking for two weeks and gas to drive there.
We left for the airport at 8:15 and arrived at 8:30. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 10:00, and of course we were early enough that there was almost no one in the airport. We walked right up to the counter and were checked in right away. We realized that today was Dylans 21 month birthday!
We had a ton of stuff with us (due to all of Dylans baby stuff) and I was really adamant about taking his car seat with us and gate checking it with his stroller instead of checking it through with our luggage. I have heard bad stories of the car seat being lost or badly damaged, and I did not want to arrive in Orlando to a missing car seat. So we had multiple things that we were going to have to haul through both airports that day. As Todd was paying for our 2 pieces of luggage (we were flying on United) he just happened to ask how much they would charge to have Dylans little suitcase checked rather than carried on. The lady said, Oh I wont charge you for it. I will just call it a necessary baby item. It was so nice & unexpected! It normally would have been another $25 for his bag.
We waited in the little seating area for a while and Dylan got antsy so we let him run off some steam. Todd took him on a few laps through the terminal. Dylan discovered how electric doors worked and Todd had to chase him outside a couple of times.
Electric doors!
After a lot of exercise, we got him back in his stroller with a snack. Out of the blue he looks at me and says no. This is the first time he has ever said that word! He usually says uh, uh when he is saying no, so this was new. Then he kept practicing it over and over all day long. Of course he had to learn that word on the first day of our trip! On top of this, he was not on his best behavior this morning so we were a little worried about how the flight was going to go.
Our flight ended up being delayed by almost an hour due to fog in S.F. and we were worried we were going to miss our connecting flight. We spoke to the lady at the counter and she said we should be fine, so we decided not to worry about what we couldnt control.
I just have to throw in that Todd came back from the using the restroom and made a really funny comment. I laughed and then told him I was going to put it in my TR. He was horrified and realized that he was going to have to watch everything that he said or it would end up getting written down.
So I promised him I would not share what he said this time, but no promises in the future. I will just tell you that his comment had to do with taking too many vitamins and the color of a certain liquid!We finally boarded the plane after 11:00 and by now it is normally Dylans nap time. He was a little cranky but taking it all in as we boarded & got strapped in. He was on Todds lap and as we took off we gave him his juice to help his ears and he just looked out the window. Those small planes are very loud compared to the big ones and after 10 minutes or so he got a little scared. He turned around and hugged Todd really tight with his head on his shoulder, and he ended up falling asleep like that for over ½ an hour. It was so cute, and I couldnt get a picture because my camera was in the overhead bin. Todd was happy because its hard to get our active little boy to actually snuggle anymore. He woke up right before we landed and seemed to be in a much better mood.
We landed in San Francisco and collected all of our stuff. The plane parked out on the tarmac and we had to walk up this scaffolding to get into the terminal. Pretty interesting. We went to check the departure flights to see if we were going to make our connecting flight.
Do we make it on the next flight? Youll have to wait & see!
Chapters
The longest flight of our lives
Our home for two weeks
When do we get to start having fun?
Some unplanned magic
Meeting the Mouse
Dancing to the music
A leisurely start to the day
Boma
Enjoying the Lodge
Visiting a few countries in one day
A bear, a wolf, & some cheese sticks
The Mini-Meltdown
A Magic Kingdom Morning
The Bride with the Axe
Why does everyone like this place?
Its so peaceful here
Our bonus free day
An Evening outside the Parks
Our first Character Meal!
An Unusual Shopping Mission
A night at the Polynesian
DHS
Thats a huge turtle!
Not sure if it was worth it
OT ~ Dylans birthday & Halloween
Ending the day at Epcot
We finally rode a roller coaster
Another first at AK
Hey, is that ..?
ToT, finally!
OT update Getting ready for Christmas
OT update - Christmas
Fitting in another favorite
One last ride
Gee, do you think he likes the Ranch?
Going home.
and I have really grown to love it myself through all of his coaching. Dylan is also very hooked on it, and is already practicing his "serve" and has started trying to pass the ball this week. We haven't even taught him, he just picks it up from watching! Crazy. So glad you stopped by!
I can't wait to compare our days. You guys are adorable.
