We're back from The First Frank Family Trip to the Wonderful Wide World of Disney... and what a trip it was! When I get a little more settled and organized (yeah, right), I'll put a few (or a lot) more pictures and details in this journal, but for now I'll just say it surely is a small world. I love small world stories, and we had a few on this trip such as:1. When we arrived at our hotel in Florida, the first people we saw were actually people we recognized (from the tournament Strider was in recently)! We knew that was weird... and as the weekend went on and we saw just how many thousands and thousands of people were packed into those few square miles, we realized just how unlikely it really was!
2. And speaking of lots of people packed into a space, those Disney parking lots are HUUUUGE. So we thought it was pretty weird when the parking attendants ended up parking us exactly behind our group's other car -- even when that car had arrived at the park 20 minutes before us, and many, many cars arrived in between us.
3. Driving home today, we left Orlando well before Mom and Dad did, and they detoured to the airport to drop off Pete's parents. We, of course, made more stops on our way home than they did... so approximately 7.5 hours later we actually saw Mom and Dad going into the same exact Chick-Fil-A in South Carolina that we were at -- completely unplanned. Considering all the possible fast-food options on our travel route, we thought that was pretty crazy, too.
And Strider actually thought the Magic Kingdom was a smaller world than he expected it to be. I was surprised to hear this and asked him why. He told me that he had heard someone say they had walked 13 miles there one day, so he was picturing the park to be 13 miles wide and 13 miles long. Now that would be large indeed! We agreed that it is quite big enough as is.So... more on the full trip later!
(This was us leaving the park one night -- some of us soaking wet from Splash Mountain, some of us soaking wet from sweat, some of us completely worn out, and all of us thankful for a good day!)
yay! welcome home! i can't wait to see more pics and hear more stories!
ReplyDeleteIsn't DisneyWorld great?! I love it there...so clean and family friendly! We've always gone in early December...a great time to go...not crowded, and they have all of the Christmas decorations out.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice that you had both sets of grandparents there to help out. Hopefully it gave you a lot of flexibility. You are one brave set of parents! We didn't even try that trip until Jack was 3. We made him walk the whole way (no stroller). That decision was made after one hellish day of steering it around in the park that wasn't even very crowded, relatively speaking. He didn't complain about having to walk, and never asked to be carried!
The kids will cherish the memories of that trip!
Beth