End of Vacation

We're sitting in the airport waiting for our flight. I'm glad I brought my computer with me. I'm able to upload the final 2 days of our vacation while we're sitting here. We have about 2 hours to go so this will help fill my time. We had a great time here in Orlando and can't believe how fast the week went. We really had no off time since our days were spent at the parks.

The last two days we spent at Epcot and Magic Kingdom. Neither of us had been to Epcot and we had a great time. Unfortunately we didn't get to go on 2 of the main attractions but we did everything else. We started at Mission Space and did the green team (non spinning per my request) then another ride then went straight into Mexico. From there we ate and drank our way around the park. Anyone planning a trip to Epcot, make sure you go during the Food and Wine festival. There are little stations at each location with foods and drinks from the region. It was heaven on little plates! (and drinks in small cups!) The Illumination show at the end was excellent! Make sure you stick around for this show at the end of the night!

Our last day we spent over 12 hours in Magic Kingdom. I hadn't been since I was 21 and Ken since he was 3. Needless to say everything had changed. One thing I noticed about Magic Kingdom (aside from no booze) was that practically all the rides are slow rides. There are only a few that are fast, coaster types. The park was pretty packed. We made our way from Main Street USA into Adventureland followed by Frontierland and worked our way around that way. Of course we did Space Mountain and "it's a small word" and many of the new rides. Of all the Disney parks we went to, we didn't take our picture with any characters. Many of them were from movies that weren't from our childhood so it wasn't a big deal, but if Piglet was around somewhere, I was going to find him! There was a show that started at the castle at 8:45 then the Wishes fireworks show started at 9pm. Both were great. The park didn't close until 11pm and our feet and legs were screaming by then. We finally left and made it back to our resort.

Overall we had a great time and so glad we had the opportunity to visit Disney World as adults without kids. Things will be different the next time we're here (because hopefully God willing we'll be blessed with a kid or 2). I'm sure we'll be on the Dumbo and Aladdin flying carpets! HA!

Enter Fall

It's quite a while since my last blog entry. I'd like to say that life has gotten in the way, and it has to some extent, but for the most part I had no idea what to write about or I just forgot. Sure I can do the traditional monthly goals and my food, but I didn't create my blog just for that. My blog was created as a way for me to write a journal in some aspect, just not write down a lot of personal details. I'm hoping this will kick start into me writing more entries going forward. We're on vacation this week and of course the alarm was set for 6:30am from the previous guest. Needless to say, it woke me up and I couldn't fall back asleep for over an hour so I just got up.

There has been quite a lot that has happened in the last several months and one of them was having to put down my mother-in-law's 17 year old dog. It was heartbreaking to say the least. We also completed our backyard. It looks absolutely fabulous and so inviting. It really created a great extension of our living and entertaining space.

Now that it's October 10th (Happy Anniversary Lorraine and Joe! and Happy Birthday Hilary!) we're on our anniversary trip here in sunny Florida. We had always talked about coming here for vacation so we can enjoy the parks before we had any children. The last time I went to Magic Kingdom was over 10 years ago and the other parks were when I was a preteen and teenager, so a lot has changed. Animal Kingdom wasn't even around. The last time Ken was here was over 30 years ago! Needless to say we're both excited for our inner child to come out. He's been singing "When you Wish Upon a Star" all week. Orlando has had some tropical weather the past few days (lots of rain and gusty winds) and it sure made for quite an approach and landing last night! But we made it and we're staying at Wyndham Bonnet Creek Resort (which is part of our timeshare) and it is absolutely gorgeous!! It's a huge property and located right amongst the Disney resorts so it's easy to get to all the parks. Today we're planning to go to Disney's Hollywood Studios, formerly MGM Studios. I'll make sure to do a review on it!