After a long-planned and fun trip around North Carolina, England, France, Spain, and NYC, it was time to come home. We’d been away for nearly 3 weeks, and being in our place sounded pretty good. Obviously, I love traveling. But there’s nothing like your own bed, a full kitchen, and 2 bathrooms. WAIT- I’m getting ahead of myself! All these luxuries were still over 14 hours away from our wake-up time this morning… Read the rest of this entry »
You may have noticed that I changed the name of this trip for purposes of simplicity. Easier to type Europalooza than Spain and France in 2018 or So Help Me, which is a name I still love because of the Monsters, Inc. reference. Anyway, Europalooza it is, for the duration of this Trip Report.
Departure day dawned…sunny? cloudy? rainy?…actually I didn’t pay attention to the weather at all, haha. It just dawned, and it meant that I was up early due to have a pesky all-day work training to attend. The packing lists had been printed and posted a few days prior, with almost all of the packing already done. Just a few housechores left to do: Read the rest of this entry »
Oh, boy. This is it. IT. There’s nothing else to do as far as post-trip activities than finish this last post. Everything else is done:
I woke up on Monday, October 12th, and realized that it was our last (half) day at Disney before we started the long journey home. So bittersweet, because of course I didn’t want to leave my happy place, but I was also looking forward to the traveling ahead of us.
I savored the last early morning view of the Savanna from our room. It’s really just beautiful. I took an extra moment to appreciate it, because it’ll be a long time before we stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge again. Now that all of my little family group has stayed there on their 1st trip to Disney, it’s time to branch out to other Deluxe resorts for future split stays and get more Resorts checked off my list. Based on experiences on this trip, I’m leaning toward PO-FQ and the Grand Floridian for our next trip in 2021. Of course, availability and price will guide the final decision. Read the rest of this entry »
When we last left off, I had just spent a challenging but fulfilling morning with DS. It was now DD’s turn to get some “mami time,” and we started things off right at the Grand Floridian Resort where we had met up to do our Parent Switch.
My sister started this Trip Tradition with us. The Garden View Tea Room does Afternoon Tea from 2-5p, with all those lace doily/tea cozy/sugar cube-y things you associate with high society and ladies who lunch. Perfect for some mother-daughter time. We checked in for our 2pm ADR, with plans to have some tea and snacks, then monorail over to the Magic Kingdom to catch the 3p Festival of Fantasy parade. I had a particular parade viewing spot in mind, and the parade wouldn’t reach there until at least 3:15p, so we had a good amount of time.
