A Magical Place - Day 1

I can't believe I'm finally blogging about our Disney trip that was in middle November. I've been a little busy lately with a 4 month old, planning a 3 year old birthday party, and trying to get ready for Christmas.

We have been planning this trip to Disney for about 6 months and were so excited. This was Brody's 1st trip and Jason and I hadn't been in YEARS!!! Since we would be taking Trevor with us we invited NiNi and Papa to join us - thank goodness we had them to help out. We left Tues the 17th after work and came home on Sunday. After much agonizing debate and research we decided to stay at the Saratoga Springs Resort since they had a 2 bedroom suite. We thought it would be best to stay in a bigger room since we had a little one with us. We purchased a 4 day park hopper pass so we were ready for a busy 4 days.

Since we had a suite with a kitchen my dad got up each morning and made breakfast for us. This was very convenient so we didn't have to cart 2 kids and 2 strollers out for breakfast and of course time Brody wakes up he wants something to eat. Wednesday we headed out to Hollywood Studios and it was great to see Brody's face as he saw things for the first time. He was so excited. His first picture was with Handy Manny - he was excited UNTIL it was our turn which is why I'm in the picture. The same was with Little Einsteins - which is why Jason is in the picture. I know you probably thought we just wanted our picture with the characters.

Lookin great in San Francisco.

We made sure to see the show Playhouse Disney which was a very good one. We then saw that you could have your picture with Lightning McQueen & Mater from the Cars movie. This was great since his birthday party the next week was going to be Lightning McQueen. He loved seeing Lightning McQueen.
We thought Brody would love the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play area - he was a little scared to do things. We tried to get him to go down slides - we even went down them first, but he wasn't so sure. He is the child who has to take it all in and then of course when you are ready to leave he'll finally do it.
One of the best rides there was Toy Story - you play carnival type games and compete with the other person in your car. It was so much fun and Brody had a blast as you can see with Dad and Brody in their 3D glasses.
The park wasn't crowded at all so there was no wait - which is the only way to experience Disney World. Jason and I even rode Aerosmith and Tower of Terror while mom and dad tried to get Brody to go to sleep in the stroller. I think he was so excited that he didn't want anything to do with that, so we decided to go back to the room to rest a little before heading to Epcot for the evening. We stayed at Epcot until about midnight. He was such a big boy and rode Soarin which he loved until the fireworks came at the end. He can be a scardy cat sometimes so a lot of times we didn't give him the opportunity to tell us no - we just picked him up and got in line.
In Epcot is where he saw the 5 main characters for the first time. Brody was so excited and walked right up to each one, gave hugs and smiled for the camera.




We were exhausted when we got back to the hotel that night. It's quite an ordeal to have 2 kids & 2 stollers at Disney parks. The transportation was convenient, but it was a pain to fold up the stollers everytime - even when no one was on the bus. Trevor did so great since he sleeps most of the time. He only got fussy late at night when he just wanted his bed to sleep - which we all wanted our bed.