Wedecided to stay "on property" this trip to Disney World. We decided on the Disney All Star Music hotel because it was one of few with a suite big enough for a family of six. Fortunately, it was also one of the most economical hotels. We arrived on Monday, September 20, 2010. We got a package deal with the hotel and meal deal which included a sit down meal, a quick service meal, and a snack each day for each person. If you planned well and way in advance you could set up character meals for the sit down meal. Many of the good places are booked several months in advance, so combined with our procrastination we only got a few of our first choices.
When we arrived at the hotel we found out we were the "family of the day". They had balloons waiting for us and a person to give us a tour and show us to our room. It speed up the check in process, but it made our walk to our room longer because we received a tour along the way along with a stop for a family picture. We arrived in the early afternoon and decided to spend the rest of our day at Hollywood Studios. There are buses at the side of the hotel the leave for the different parks all throughout the day.
Monday - Hollywood Studios
Some of our highlights for Monday were watching the Indiana Jones Adventure Show and riding the Rock'n Rollercoaster. Matt and Kylee also rode the Tower of Terror together.
I tried to entertain the younger kids with lollipops outside the Tower of Terror.
At the end of our first day of travel and exploring the park everyone was still pretty animated. The kids shirts chronicled our activities with stains picked up all along the way.
Tuesday - Magic Kingdom
We started our day with breakfast at 10:55 at the Park Fair Restaurant. In preparation for the character meals we were watching various disney movies before our trip so the kids would be familiar with them. The characters that we got to meet were the Mad Hatter, Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, and Mary Poppins.
Waiting to be seated for our meal.
After the meal we started our adventure at the Magic Kingdom. Julia had not gotten her character fill yet so I went with her to meet the princesses. We waited in line so she could see Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Belle. The fairies are more popular than the princesses, but their line was twice as long. We decided to that we could only do the princesses.
Blake rode his first roller coaster, the Barnstormer in Mickey's Toontown. He did great. He was a little bit scared during it, but after he said he enjoyed it.
Wednesday -Animal Kingdom
We went on the safari ride and the kids enjoyed checking out the different exotic animals.
The kids were a little freaked out when we saw the 3-D bug show because it feels like the bugs are flying in your face and go across your seat. Luckily Blake was asleep so Matt waited for us outside.
In the afternoon we met up at the Expedition Everest with the Caraways, who had arrived that morning. It was a fun roller coaster but Blake was sad that he couldn't go on it. Even Julia just barely made the hight cutoff to ride, and actually enjoyed it.
Thursday - Magic Kingdom
Riding the train to Tom Sawyer Island
We started off the day exploring Tom Sawyer island. It was fun even though the kids were scared to go through the caves.
After Tom Sawyer Island we met up with the Caraways and went to the Pirates of the Carribean and the Haunted Mansion.
For lunch we went to Chef Mickey's where the kids had a lot of fun meeting Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy.
After lunch we went back to the hotel to rest so that we could come back in the evening for "Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party".
We met up with the Caraways for the party and the boys dressed as pirates, little girls were cinderella, and the older girls had Halloween shirts and ears. The Halloween party had a parade, lots of trick or treating spots, and lots of mostly "evil" character sightings.
Since Julia was Cinderella it was fun that we saw her stepmother and step sisters
Friday - Epcot
Epcot, despite having many features targeted at older kids, had plenty of excitement for our kids as well. We enjoyed Soaring, Nemo, the Test Track, Mission to Mars, and Spaceship Earth. It was a rainy day with several intermittent down pours. Julia and I even got stranded in a bathroom during one heavy rain.
Epcot was fun because there are areas that represent different countries. They have different areas with buildings, activities, and rides representing specific countries. We ate lunch in Italy, rode a viking boat in and had yummy pastry snacks in Norway, and road a boat and had an excellent dinner in Mexico. There was so much to do we only scratched the surface.
Saturday - Hollywood Studios
On Saturday we headed back to Hollywood Studios.
The young girls watched the Beauty and the Beast show with Kristel and Tiffany while Matt and Damon took Kylee, Avery, Brayden, and Gavin to the Tower of Terror.
We all watched an exciting car stunt show.
During the Block Party Parade the kids got to see lots of fun characters from the different Disney movies. (Toy Story, Monsters, A Bug's Life)
Julia, Blake and I went to the Little Mermaid showagain and then the Playhouse Disney show.
Matt stuck it out in line for the Toy Story ride with Brayden and Gavin for almost 2 hours and we missed our 50s dinner meal time slot. Luckily we were able to get in a little later.
Sunday, September 26, 2010, exhausted and ready to sleep in our own beds again, we headed for the airport to board the plane back to San Antonio.
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