We just got back last night from a 3-day vacation to Disney. For any mom, that should be an obvious "nightmare headline".
We spent two wonderful nights in a small hotel room with beds a quarter of the size of mine. The first night was the worst, Lily did not want to go to sleep and then kept us up half the night insisting it was play time and trying to dance her way out of bed.
The first day consisted of the drive down, lunch for 2 hours at PF Changs (which did not end in my beloved way eating the Great Wall of Chocolate), purchasing our tickets, hanging out and exploring our hotel (we stayed at one of the Disney hotels).
The second day was our first day at the park (Magic Kingdom). We all had our own agendas for that day (we were there with Mikes brother and his kids) and while we would have gotten more accomplished individually (my kids are too small to go on some of the rides they liked) we stayed together. It seemed like every five minutes someone needed a bottle, a diaper change, a snack, a break, or to get down and walk. I feel like I spent half of my day in the bathroom changing diapers, putting shoes on and taking them off and pouring bottles and trying to find them after they have been thrown from the stroller. We went on some fun rides and they seemed to enjoy themselves as much as possible on the rides while tormenting us in some way the rest of the day.
The second day was pretty much the same except at Animal Kingdom and for less time. We choose a terrible time to go because it seemed like the amount of people living in Orlando had decided to cram themselves into whatever park we were at because everyone had the same idea as us: to go while kids where off from school.
I have to say that overall it was not a great experience, I enjoyed myself and so did the kids, but if you rate how many good to bad moments we had the bad(miserable) ones would win out by a long shot.
Collapsing a stroller that many times in a day has to be a crime. Every where we went we where either ditching the stroller to try to hold onto two little kids, or collapsing our stroller to hold onto that, all our belongings in it and two little kids.
The sad thing is, is that no matter how annoying it all was and how difficult everything was throughout the day seeing how excited the kids got over little things seemed to make it all worth it. Lily was so happy to just get down and to walk around with a crowd and to try and eat all the new leaves and other things she has never seen before. Tyler was so happy to get to spend time with his cousins, to go on rides, and of course to see Mickey Mouse and Goofy.
Some things took a lot of convincing and we got a lot of attitude when we had to make Tyler switch gears and move to another place, or when we had to stick Lils back into her stroller for the thousandth time because she was too heavy, wiggled to much, or we could not keep an eye on Tyler, hold Lils, push a stroller, and maneuver through the chaos at the same time.
But even all of that plus the extremely long car ride home thanks to a screaming baby half the way and an endless amount of traffic could not stop us from wanting to do it again before June to use up our third day of our Disney pass.
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