12 Years in the Making: Our First Family Vacation

We left home at 2:15am on 3-4 hours of sleep and made it to JFK


Flight boards in about 10 minutes
Disney here we come!

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Safe travels!

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Wow that’s early! Have a great time.

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Have the best time! We’ll be following along and sending you good vibes.

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Exciting!! Have a great trip!

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The thread title and picture gave me chills. It was as though I could feel the joy in the room. Have a great time. I can hardly wait to hear all about it.

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Our Lyft driver strategically put on When You Wish Upon A Star as we drove under the sign.
There MAY have been some tears


Five Stars :star::star::star::star::star:

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Wow, what an amazing moment. I hope you all have a great trip!

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Magical. DH always puts on the Final Countdown. I think When You Wish Upon a Star is more apropos, TBH.

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Taking into account our wake up at 1am, stressful travel (unknown airport and airline) and steady rain from 3pm on, I think we had a pretty successful day!
We had breakfast at ‘Ohana. It was mine and DBF’s first time there and we really enjoyed it. I am officially a pog juice fan, so good! The kids had a blast getting autographs and pictures.






Then we headed over to Magic Kingdom. DD and I got pixie dusted at Sir Mickeys, then we met the step-sisters. That may be one of the best character meets I’ve ever done, they were so funny!



We rode POTC, JC, HM, SM, TBA, BLYSRS, PP and SDMT all with LLMP. We got dole whips and floats, popcorn and had dinner at CHH. I have no idea where we put it all!
Some souvenir shopping closed out the evening and now it’s time for some sleep before HS tomorrow morning.











Good night!

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What a great day! I love the tshirts!

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Looks awesome!!

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Batuu here we come!


A lovely cast member driving a gold cart happened to cross paths with us and gave us a ride to the bus stop. My first cast compliment!

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You’re off to a fabulous start! Where are you staying? Have fun at HS today!!

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Port Orleans Riverside
Some shots from very early this morning


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So beautiful! I stayed at POR for the first time in March and loved the early morning light along the riverside. It’s a stunning resort. Enjoy!!

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It is so peaceful and relaxing here!

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Thank you for posting the POR pictures. They made me smile. I love that resort.

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I love POR! It was my first on-property resort. I love how quiet it is, especially after the hustle and bustle of the theme parks

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We rope dropped HS today. Unfortunately ROTR was down for the entire EE, so we rode MFSR and then got some breakfast. Hit ST with a 9am LLMP to unlock park hopping. Wandered Batuu a bit, DBF and DD built droids and DS and I built lightsabers. Took some pictures then rode MFSR again and finally rode ROTR with LL’s. There were definitely some tears, being a lifelong Star Wars fan and being here for the first time. DS even got choked up during Savi’s. Finished the morning with Ronto Wraps and then headed back for a little break.












At the resort we hit the quiet pool, swam a bit, then just rested up. Before grabbing a bus over to Epcot, the kids had some fun in the arcade.



We had about 30 mins of perfect weather at Epcot and then the rain started. And kept going. But we rode GFT, FEA, Remy, Soarin and GOTG. We tried a bunch of booth food and drink. Highlights were the Satay Beef Bao Bun in China and the Beef Tenderloin Tips in Canada.
It was my first time on Remy and GOTG. Remy was really cute, we all enjoyed it.
GOTG was amazing. We got Conga.


Now it’s time for some sleep. Good night all!

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