Disney

Bryan was awarded two free park hopper tickets to Disney World for raising so much money for the heartwalk last fall. We had to use the tickets quickly so we could still pass off Katelyn as "almost 3." We decided to go on Saturday, that way we could see the parks decorated for Christmas and we beat the Christmas tourist rush, plus the weather is just awesome. Bryan hasn't been to the Magic Kingdom since 2001, so it has been a while. Katelyn and I have been very fortunate and have been together several times, but I was looking forward to have another adult! We arrived around 10am and Main Street was packed!! Turns out, ABC was filming the Christmas Day Parade (will be shown on Christmas morning). Regis and Kelly host, but we didn't see them. In fact, we didn't see a thing and were directed a back way into the park. It was pretty crowded! Katelyn LOVES to walk through Mickey and Minnie's house, so we did that and Bryan took her on her very first roller coaster ride (Goofy's Barnyard Coaster...a kiddie coaster). They got the first row and she loved it! As soon as she got off, she said she wanted to do it again! They also rode the race cars together, Bryan let her steer (although he said she needed some help with the steering!). We grabbed some lunch (okay, that took a long time, crowds were nuts) and rode some more rides, then left for MGM. MGM has a Christmas light show like you've never seen. It's amazing...3 million lights and they dance to music, plus the pump out fake snow and it looks so real. It's pretty awesome! Again, it was really crowded, so once we saw the lights, we were ready to go home. Problem was our car was at Magic Kingdom. We saw the line for the bus to MK was VERY long, so we thought we were taking a shortcut by hoping on a bus to hote, then grab a MK bus from there. Great in theory, but the bus took forever to come to the hotel, then dropped us off at the front gate of MK, not the parking lot, so we had to take the ferry boat back to the parking lot. It took an hour and half to get back to our car...all of us starving and tired. Katelyn held it together quite well, I must say. It was an exhausting day, but so much fun to be together.