Disney Day 1

Whew!! I am so behind on my blogging. I am going back to where I left off and that was our trip to DISNEY WORLD!! We went April 18-22 and it was the most magical time ever. I am still depressed it's over. I am going to try not to do picture overload but I have about a million!

We began with our car ride to Birmingham Thursday morning. We were probably still in the driveway when she asked if we were there yet? I just looked at TC and we both remembered why we were flying as opposed to driving. As we pulled into the airport she screamed from the backseat,"YAY, we are at Disney World!!" Our flight got delayed by about 45 minutes, but that was fine with us. We had a quick bite for breakfast and played in the children's area in the airport. She was THRILLED to be at the airport. I knew if that was any indication of our trip, we were going to have a great time!

Playing on the ipad in the airport

First Plane Ride!

We arrived in Orlando after a very quick 1 hour plane ride and immediately got on the Disney Magical Express to our hotel. We stayed at the Pop Century Resort and they were wonderful. And let me brag on Disney for a minute… When they say it's all magical, it really is!! We checked our bags in b'ham and they appeared in our room that night. We road a big bus straight to our hotel and were greeted by red carpet, bubbles and very happy workers! It probably took about 5 minutes to check in and we were headed to the room! 

Our view from our hotel room

We immediately changed clothes and headed straight to the Magic Kingdom. On the way there Reagan was worried about "Malificent" the witch from Sleeping Beauty. TC and I assured her we would NOT see her, but would get to see all our favorite characters. Well low and behold, we walk in the Magic Kingdom and straight up to Cinderella's Castle. We were right on time for a show with all the characters. We are so excited and watching and guess who POPS out from a cloud of green smoke!? The one and only Malificent, who we assured her wasn't going to be there!!!! She came unglued for about 2 seconds…

Seconds before the dreaded Malificent popped out! 

After that debacle, we headed to start riding rides. Our very first one was "It's a small world". Reagan kept asking, "which world is this", she couldn't figure out the changing costumes through out the ride.

On the boat! Our first ride.

One of our favorite things we did was the new Ariel ride from Little Mermaid. We loaded up in clams and rode thru the story of the Little Mermaid. It was so fun and I couldn't pay attention to the ride for watching Reagan's reaction to it.

When we exited the ride we walked over to "Ariel's Grotto" where we got to actually meet Ariel. She was the prettiest, sweetest thing ever and Reagan was OBSESSED! She just couldn't get over the fact Ariel was sitting in her room taking pictures.

One of my favorite characters was Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. He was hilarious and acted just like the actual character. (And I LOVED his padded butt and legs…)

Mad Hatter's Tea Party

There were hardly any crowds our first day and the longest line we stood in was about 15-20 minutes and that was for the new Winnie the Pooh ride. TC had never been to Disney and I kept telling him how lucky we were with the lines. We rode a ton of rides and then headed to dinner at the Crystal Palace. All the Winnie the Pooh characters came thru while we were eating to take pictures with Reagan. She was so into it!! Before we went, I was scared she would be nervous and scared of the characters, but she absolutely loved it, and wanted her picture made with EVERYBODY. Even people she didn't know!!

Pooh 

Tigger

Piglet 

Eeyore

After dinner we lined up to watch the Disney Electrical Parade. I had never seen this and was blown away. The floats are so beautiful covered in lights and we got to see all our favorite characters go by.

Sitting on daddy's shoulders.

She was a very real fairy godmother.

Clapping at the end!! 

The first day was absolutely perfect. I could not have asked for the travel side of it to go any better. We all were exhausted and it was only day 1!!