Disney Report - Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom!!!! Of all the parks, Magic Kingdom is still my very favorite. Briana was all smiles the morning we headed out to the park (which was exactly a week before Thanksgiving). She never uses a stroller anymore, but it is a definite "must have" at Disney World...

The boat ride over to the MK was beautiful...

Cinderella's Castle of course...

The Dumbo ride...

Briana participated in a meet and greet with Flynn Rider. Oh, and Rapunzel. ;) The kids did some coloring before the meet and greet and they learned a little dance before Rapunzel and Flynn Rider emerged...

Check out how the kids hide from Flynn Rider and then their cute dance...



I love this place!!!!

Briana was so hilarious waiting to get into the "Country Bear Jamboree" - you gotta see her dance. So cute!!!



Me and my gal in front of the Tiki Room...

One of the highlights of the day was Chef Mickey's. The food was just ok, but it was worth every penny to see Briana's face when she got to meet the characters...

We pushed through the park all day until about 5PM. Bri doesn't nap anymore unless she is just exhausted. Instead of watching the fireworks at MK at the park, we watched them from our hotel room. They were beautiful, but unfortunately, Miss B did get a bit grumpy that night due to some overload. But I'll leave that tidbit for another post. ;)

Disney Report - Downtown Disney and Rainforest Cafe

When we arrived at Disney after a long 8 hour car ride, and we were way too tired to hit any parks. So like last year, we headed to Downtown Disney for some dinner and a little shopping.

We ate at Rainforest Cafe and Briana thought it was really cool. She got a little nervous by the "thunderstorms" that came every twenty minutes or so, but she did enjoy it. I ate at Rainforest in Vegas and loved the atmosphere. I don't think the food is all that spectacular - I mainly recommended it for a cool ambiance.

Me and my gal..

Look at this ridiculously large drink. It didn't look that big on the menu...

Doug and Briana in the photo booth...

This was the cool view from the back deck of the restaurant...

Check out some cool video of the restaurant...





There was an adorable little kid train in the center of Downtown Disney...

Of course we stopped at "World of Disney." That place is crazy...

This display was located at one of the 15 entrances to the store...

Pictures with the princesses like last year...

A stop at the Lego store of course...

We couldn't drag her away from the Lego tables...

 

Look at all these Legos. Of course, we ended up with our own custom set...

 Ok Daddy, I'm shopped out for now. Let's go. Next stop, Magic Kingdom!

Disney Report - The Wilderness Lodge

We stayed at the beautiful Wilderness Lodge this time around on our visit to Disney. Last time we stayed at the Polynesian. I really loved the monorail access last year - that is the one thing I missed at the Wilderness Lodge this year. But, there is a beautiful boat ride over to the Magic Kingdom from the Wilderness which is very nice. It's not as quick or convenient as the monorail, but the ride is very pretty and it isn't too troublesome.

We entered the hotel and it was certainly grand...

This was the view from our room. If those trees weren't there, we would have been able to see Cinderella's Castle directly. But we did see beautiful fireworks every night from the room above the trees. I'll save that for another post though...

The grounds were beautiful...

Then a funny thing happened. On the third day of our visit, we went downstairs to head over to Hollywood studios and everything in the hotel was decked out for Christmas! It was like Santa had visited while we were sleeping and decked the halls...

I definitely give the Wilderness Lodge a big "thumbs up." :D