Blogs from Disney World, Orlando, Florida, United States, North America - page 15

WooHoo: Up Early and heading to the Islands of Adventure theme park to see the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Theme Park Entry passes: Check; Money: Check; Photo ID: Check; Room Card to charge back: Check; Waterproof holder: Check; Comfy Shoes (with comfy socks): Check; SunScreen Applied: Check; Sunglasses: Check; Summer Scarf (keep perspiration in check): Check. Breakfast : CRAP, knew I forgot something. Oh well will eat when we get there. Child: Check (Yap,yap, yap (unmedicated) in my ear: Excitement and Enthusiasm in abundance); Husband; Check. Okay 7.45am, park opens at 8, off to the boat to get there before opening. 8.15am, and we are staring at the entrance to Universals Wizarding World of Harry Potter. A lot of money and effort has been put into this part of the park, it looks GREAT, ... read more

Saturday: Supposedly one of the busiest days of the week for the WDW Theme Parks, and a US long weekend to boot. We have cancelled all our plans so that we can fianlly do what we want, when we want, and now we actually have to think about what we want to do! Okay Junior has decided that if we won't let her go back to Typhoon Lagoon that she will reluctantly consider doing Disney Quest at Downtown Disney. It's supposed to be 5 floors of interactive theme park activities all located in air con comfort. So we have a lazy breakfast (with hoardes of people who appear to have arrived overnight from somwhere! maybe a slight exaggeration here, you don't get hoardes of people in Club Level, but there were certainly a lot more for ... read more

Arrived in Germany late for lunch (Junior and Mrs Chicken got lost on the way). Little Chicken went for a couple of fast passes for Soarin (whilst we were getting lost), says he saw a real live Chipmunk (yeah yeah yeah) and still managed to get to the Biergarten for lunch ahead of us. Beautiful German food and some much needed air conditioning for about 1.5 hours and then out to catch a boat across the lake and get a fast pass for Test Track. Then off to ride soarin (awesome for some, overrated for the LC). While waiting for our fast pass time to come up for Test Track we did "Living on the Land" all about new farming tecqniques and food research (most fascinating). A quick character visit (40 minutes in a line :() ... read more

Well we arrived safely in Orlando on Monday night (US Eastern time) after a 5 hour flight from LA. Our first night in LA was rather basic but comfortable enough. The 5 hour flight was also very basic and not very comfortable (not to mention the total lack of on-board entertainment). We arrived at Orlando airport all pretty exhausted from two days of constant travel and little sleep. The Disney bus ride from Orlando airport to Disney's Wilderness Lodge was fine except it seemed like it took forever as we just wanted to be at Disney already. Our check in was a little disorganised but we were treated with the utmost respect and escorted to the Concierge on Level 7 before being taken to our deluxe 2 room suite on level 4. After some quick unpacking ... read more

We have made it to the Wednesday before the Sunday evening departure. We've had junior chicken home from school with a bad cough (great for travelling on a plane) since Tuesday so that has limited our ability to get out and about and do all those things we want before we leave, but we have still managed to get a few things done. Monday was GREAT, went on a lovely pre-holiday shopping spree so we all look the part of tourists holidaying in the sun (great summer clothes combined with that pure white Melbourne winter skin!). I've been and had my natural hair colour restored and puppy has had her monthly sprucing up at Dog Lovers and is loving being inside the house again, particularly as it is icily cold outside at the moment. We did ... read more