Disney102015
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2015
Hi all, it’s H here, reporting fresh from an amazing land and sea Disney trip! I’m still working on my report from our summer adults only trip, but let’s be honest, I have major post vacation blues at the moment and all I really want to do is relive this most recent trip! So buckle up because I am diving right in.
Our crew for this trip was my immediate family of 5 - me, my husband N, my 5.5 year old son C, my 3.5 year old daughter G, and 1.5 year old “baby” E.
C is usually our daredevil but he was a bit more cautious this trip! He loves meeting Mickey and giving him a high five. G is our princess-obsessed girl who was so excited to get her first chance to visit Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. She also had high hopes of riding roller coasters now that she meets some height requirements, but as you’ll see, her first experience may have traumatized her! Baby E is usually along for the ride but she found her running legs this trip and sprinted away from us to be chased basically every chance she got! My husband N is not much of a roller coaster guy (he hates heights) but he shocked me before the trip when he said that he wanted to try Guardians of the Galaxy. Would he do it?? Stay tuned to find out!!
We had been scheduled to do a trip to Disney World in December to do all the Christmassy stuff but health issues prevented us from traveling. When we rescheduled, we decided to shorten the parks portion and tack on our very first Disney cruise! We did 5 nights at Old Key West, hitting all 4 parks, followed by a 4 night cruise on the Disney Wish.
I won’t lie, traveling with 3 kids 5 and under is not for the faint of heart! The biggest thing I noticed this trip is that we accomplished maybe 1/4-1/2 of what I expected each day. We were just moving a lot slower than usual with 2 strollers (and E who insisted on walking/waddling whenever she got the chance), plus a lot of extra bathroom breaks with a newly potty trained kiddo, plus the million snack breaks I just had to kind of adjust my expectations on day 1 that we weren’t going to be able to do everything we planned and had to adjust accordingly, just prioritizing the things we absolutely didn’t want to miss, and not worrying about the rest. This strategy worked out great and overall this was SUCH a magical trip. Having everyone logged off and the screens put away for the cruise was major icing on the cake.
I think I say this every trip report, but my favorite part is always seeing how the kids have changed and what things they like and don’t like versus our last trip. They’re growing up so fast and we are so blessed to get to make these memories with them.
Our (harrowing) travel day is coming up next…thanks for following along!
Our crew for this trip was my immediate family of 5 - me, my husband N, my 5.5 year old son C, my 3.5 year old daughter G, and 1.5 year old “baby” E.
C is usually our daredevil but he was a bit more cautious this trip! He loves meeting Mickey and giving him a high five. G is our princess-obsessed girl who was so excited to get her first chance to visit Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. She also had high hopes of riding roller coasters now that she meets some height requirements, but as you’ll see, her first experience may have traumatized her! Baby E is usually along for the ride but she found her running legs this trip and sprinted away from us to be chased basically every chance she got! My husband N is not much of a roller coaster guy (he hates heights) but he shocked me before the trip when he said that he wanted to try Guardians of the Galaxy. Would he do it?? Stay tuned to find out!!
We had been scheduled to do a trip to Disney World in December to do all the Christmassy stuff but health issues prevented us from traveling. When we rescheduled, we decided to shorten the parks portion and tack on our very first Disney cruise! We did 5 nights at Old Key West, hitting all 4 parks, followed by a 4 night cruise on the Disney Wish.
I won’t lie, traveling with 3 kids 5 and under is not for the faint of heart! The biggest thing I noticed this trip is that we accomplished maybe 1/4-1/2 of what I expected each day. We were just moving a lot slower than usual with 2 strollers (and E who insisted on walking/waddling whenever she got the chance), plus a lot of extra bathroom breaks with a newly potty trained kiddo, plus the million snack breaks I just had to kind of adjust my expectations on day 1 that we weren’t going to be able to do everything we planned and had to adjust accordingly, just prioritizing the things we absolutely didn’t want to miss, and not worrying about the rest. This strategy worked out great and overall this was SUCH a magical trip. Having everyone logged off and the screens put away for the cruise was major icing on the cake.
I think I say this every trip report, but my favorite part is always seeing how the kids have changed and what things they like and don’t like versus our last trip. They’re growing up so fast and we are so blessed to get to make these memories with them.
Our (harrowing) travel day is coming up next…thanks for following along!