For our anniversary, Nathan surprised me with a trip to Orlando! On the agenda: Disney World, Discovery Cove where we will get to swim with the dolphins, and Sea World! I was so excited but also had a hard time leaving Kelsie! This is the first time I have left her overnight since she was born! I knew we needed this getaway but also knew it would be hard being away from my sweet girl that long and it definitely was. Every time I saw another little girl around her age, I couldn't help but well up with tears, thinking how much I missed her and wished she were there with us! Of course, Disney World is a kid's dream so everything we saw, we talked about what Kelsie would/wouldn't like, could/couldn't do etc. I can't count how many times we said "Kelsie would love this!" and then guessed what her facial expression would be. I just can't wait to finally be home and see her and give her all the souvenirs we brought home for her! (We are actually on the plane right now!)
But as hard as it was to leave Kelsie, the trip was wonderful! It wasn't exactly relaxing but thats because it was so packed full of fun! We went to Disney World on Saturday. This was such a fun and magical day but also long and exhausting! We wanted to hit a few of our chosen highlights from each of the 4 parks but we had a few logistical issues with our transportation plan, so we ended up wasting 2 hours which meant we had to drop something off our list! So for this trip, we decided to skip Epcot. We started out at Animal Kingdom where we rode an awesome roller coaster, Expedition Everest, and went on a really cool safari ride where we saw alot if animals right outside our vehicle. We then journeyed over to Hollywood Studios where we were planning to ride Tower of Tower and Rockin Roller Coaster. Well Rockin Roller Coaster was closed and our Fast Pass for Tower of Terror wasn't for 3 more hours. Plus we realized we hadn't thought about how we were going to get back to Animal Kingdom to get our car at the end of the day. We were (mistakenly) told that the buses to AK would stop running once that park closed (8 pm) which was the earliest of all the parks. We knew we wanted to end at Magic Kingdom which stayed open the latest, so we decided to go ahead and ride the bus BACK to Animal Kingdom, get our car and drive to Magic Kingdom, spend some time there and then go BACK to Hollywood, and then BACK to Magic Kingdom for the nighttime fireworks show at the castle (which I am glad we did because it was absolutely amazing!!) A lot of back tracking I know! So needless to say, we spent a lot of our time on transportation! But...you live and learn! Next time we will know! Bus rides, tram rides, monorail rides into Magic Kingdom, a little bit if driving and ALOT of walking! Which reminds me, I am so thankful God decided to let me keep my legs after my accident because I really need them for trips like that! So anyway... all our little blips in transportation just gave us some experience on what to do and what not to do for trips in the future! We ended up seeing Animal Kingdom once, Hollywood Studios twice, and Magic Kingdom twice. And we pretty much did mostly everything we had on our list plus some! A couple of really nice employees saw us wearing our "Happy Anniversary" buttons (that they gave us when we got to Disney) and approached us after we entered Hollywood Studios asking if we wanted to ride Toy Story Mania, a super fun and popular ride! We said of course, and they gave us 2 fast passes giving us entry anytime within the next hour. We were stoked because the wait time for this ride was over an hour and we wouldn't have been able (nor would we have wanted to) wait that long! I think God was helping us out on that one, making up for the time we lost moving our car! We were also able to ride tower of terror and Rockin roller coaster, take the Backlot tour and eat at a very neat restaurant, the Sci-fi Dine in theatre where had our dinner while sitting in pretend cars watching old movie reels. It was pretty cool. We then made it back to Magic Kingdom (after what became a at least a 30 min trip via bus and then monorail) in time for the nighttime show and Wishes fireworks display, which I must say was truly one of the most beautiful and spectacular things I have ever seen!!!
Sunday we went to Discovery Cove and wow, it was just such an awesome experience!!! We had our "dolphin encounter" first thing at 9:30.
We Went to the saltwater pool and went snorkeling where we saw lots of very cool fish and stingray! It took me a while to get up the nerve to pet a stingray but eventually I had no choice because they were literally swimming all around us!
We went back to Sea World for our last day (the Discovery Cove passes included entry to SeaWorld so we thought we should get the most out of money and try to see what we could of SeaWorld too). We did a few fun things here as well - Turtle Trek which was a nice 3D 360 degree show about sea turtles journey from the shore to the ocean and back again. We ate lunch, rode a couple more rides, and then made our way back to the airport. Exhausted by that point and ready to get home but also full of memories from our adventure packed getaway. So thankful for my hubby and for the chance to have this little 2nd honeymoon. It was so much fun and something we will never forget!
(I had to stop adding pictures because the blog has been distorting the colors when I load them on here - but I will try to add more later!)
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