Category: USA 2023
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Walt Disney World – 12th August
Saturday 12th August Saturday in Disney and we are moving hotels. This move is a lot less stressful than previous moves! No scrambling to the airport, no running all our luggage through Chicago. Just pack the suitcases and let Bag Services transfer between the hotels. We had until 11am to get out the room and…
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Walt Disney World – 7th August
Monday 7th August Hello darkness my old friend. 5am alarm. Today is the day we leave cool, rainy Michigan and (literally) hot swap for 95f of Florida sunshine and humidity. Stacey did an amazing job all week cooking is amazing meals, keeping the children entertained and just being an awesome host. Stacey also drove us…
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Walt Disney World – 26th August
Saturday 26th August Short and sweet. We made it home! We missed a hurricane heading towards Florida and we missed the air traffic control chaos in the UK. We cracked out the flight to New York (due to the time we are travelling we got an amazing deal if we flew from NYC instead of…
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Walt Disney World – 25th August
Friday 25th August Last day, best day. We ordered some tasty Mickey waffles to the room. Watched Cars 3 while Mummy finished packing. Decided it was best to get dressed and head to Typhoon Lagoon. We didn’t realise that getting a bus to Typhoon Lagoon took a lot longer than expected. We spent a lovely…
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Walt Disney World – 24th August
Thursday 24th August We wanted to hit our final park day hard, the boys just wanted to go back to Hollywood Studios and play on Toy Story Mania! We settled for a half and half, half pepperoni and…the morning at Animal Kingdom and the afternoon at Hollywood Studios. First ride on the list was the…
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Walt Disney World – 23rd August
Wednesday 23rd August We decided a rest day was in order. We are trying to hit the final parks on Thursday so today we relaxed and went to two amazing restaurants. First stop ‘Ohana, this time for breakfast! It’s such a great restaurant, this time breakfast with characters! We had Mickey waffles, cooked breakfast and…
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Walt Disney World – 22nd August
Tuesday 22nd August Magic Kingdom day! Our last (and best) day. We noticed early on that is was a Halloween Night – Mickeys Spooky Halloween, the park closes at 6pm! That’s not great for us, as we have lots of rides to get through, but it turned out to be even better for us as…
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Walt Disney World – 21st August
Monday 21st August We are back. Double park Manning special. Our last time in EPCOT and Hollywood Studios. Lots to pack in and get covered. We grabbed a quick breakfast that included Koana Toast (sort of banana cake mixed with sour dough), pancakes and more pancakes. The restaurants here are top notch and that elevates…
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Walt Disney World – 20th August
Sunday 20th August Our first full day at the Polynesian, we headed to reception as we had a few problems actually getting into our room last night. The technology is great when it works, but when it doesn’t you are back to speaking to someone at a reception desk. We decided that after the amount…
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Walt Disney World – 18th August
Friday 18th August We had a chilled morning, spending time at the pool, this is the beauty of coming for three weeks. If we decide to have a day or half day at the pool we can. We spent half a day at the pool, then attempted to do a very Katy Manning thing, two…