DisneyWorld

Christopher and I had an awesome time this past week finding housing in NC and taking a little detour in Orlando to play in DisneyWorld.  Christopher is a perfect traveling companion.  He gamely ordered cran-apple juice and mixed it with my ginger-ale on our flights making the perfect little cocktails.  He gallantly squished the cockroaches waiting for us in our $23 a night hotel room every evening while I sat on the bed cheering, and sometimes crying. He held my hand as we rushed through the parks and insisted on wearing the backpack filled with our supply of cheez-nips and granola bars the entire time.  He was just the best.  

Here are some other trip highlights besides Christopher.

1-Finding a perfect 2-bedroom apartment in Durham that is in our price-range and doesn't appear to have a critter problem. 

2-Choosing to go to DisneyWorld over 2 days that were record-breaking empty. We honestly ran right on almost every ride we wanted to.  We waited in two lines. 

3-Hearing an old man yell at his grown daughter because she was rushing too quickly when Magic Kingdom opened. He shouted that people were cutting him off and looked at us. Guilty.

4-Seeing as many types of mickey hats as there were people in the actual parks. Pirate hats, newly-wed hats, various princess hats, and uncomfortable looking coonskins.

5- Witnessing every child in DisneyWorld completely fall apart around 3 in the afternoon.  We learned that this was the best time to go on rides in Fantasyland, and the worst time to get ice-cream. 

6-Finally, we loved watching the fireworks over the castle from our log boat on Splash Mountain.  The workers let us ride it again and again without getting out. It was a perfect ending to a wonderful vacation and we felt so lucky. 

We're so glad we went, but we're happy to be home!

Hollywood Studios

After we got soaked on our last Splash Mountain ride

By the Castle