Sorry it took so long to update...

Our Vacation in Disney World is Over!

We returned on the 22nd, and it has taken me this long to collect my thoughts, photos, etc, enough to post it on my blog! We have been BUSY since we came back. (no... not just playing games... but close...)

I was going to write this big long synopsis of our trip. Then i got bored.

We went, we had fun :)

We rode nearly every ride we wanted to, there were some stressfull times, there were great times.

The best meal that we had was on Jen and my's "alone day" at the Rose and Crown in Epcot. We had supper and a seat for Illuminations - we were able to see (clearly) the fireworks from our table, and could feel the HEAT from the ignitions we were so close! Not to mention that the food was to die for.

The worst meal we had was at Tony's Town Square in Magic Kingdom. The food itself was excellent, but the waitress was a snobby bitch.

We had a few experiences of bad service (IE: You can wait, he is actually buying something, so he can cut in front of you).

And here are a few pics from our wonderful vacation:

















Chloe did not want her picture taken right then!


Jen's Favorite picture of Bug from Animal Kingdom


Jen hates this picture because of the weird angle, but I think it is hilarious. It makes her head look 3 times the size of mine lol.

And they are off!

My parents will be here shortly to take us to Minneapolis (a hotel right next to the airport) for the night, then we all leave for Florida at 8am tommorrow morning!

(Well, 4am since we have to be at the airport 3 hours early :/)

Will post if I can while down there!

Have a good Week all!

The new FAA Regulations...

The new FAA regulations aren't going to slow us down one bit!

Well, maybe at the airport - we were told today by Sun Country to come to the airport AT LEAST 3 hours early. Thankfully we are staying in a hotel the night before... Otherwise we would have to be up at 2am...

As it is, we have to be to the airport at 5am now. Not too bad, could be a lot worse. Like we will be able to rest anyway :P

The one mistake I see a lot of people reporting on is this, though:

No cremes, lotions, water, juice, ANYTHING is allowed on the plane. Not just into the "clean zone" past security: You can't take it on the plane AT ALL! That means, even if you buy a bottled water at a high rate in an airport store, it must be drank before you get on your plane!

The only thing that affects for us is Sunscreen, especially for Matt (who needs to lather up before he goes into the sun). This simply means we will have to buy some when we get to Florida - but otherwise everything is looking AOK for us!

As for are we worried about flying... The answer is no. We are flying Sun Country, a small charter airline, in a nonstop flight between Minneapolis and Orlanda. We are definitely not worried about our flight being a "target"!

On a sidenote, if anyone ever has the chance to fly Sun Country, please do so. Support the little guy in the market. I say this especially because they have a new fleet of planes (less then 5 years old), all leather seats, great customer service, and we are supposedly getting "hot food" on the plane, a rarity in today's travelling world.

6 Days to go to Disney!

Don't you love the week before vacation?

Work, Daycare, and life in general all seems to go by so fast... For me, there is only 3 workday's left! And one of them is only a half day!

The culmination of all of our planning, hard work, and penny pinching is going to pay itself off next week, and we will do our best to provide you with photos of our trip! This is, of course, assuming we pay for the high speed internet... that is still up for debate... (After all... both Jen and I know that if we were to get the internet connection, we would be playing either Warcraft or City of Heroes at night.... We are that addicted...)

If nothing else we will have good pictures (and maybe some video) when we get back!

We bought a new Camcorder for the trip! One of those fancy ones that you can plug straight into the computer and stream the videos. It also takes still photos on an SD-Card, which we have multiples of. I will be running the video camera, while Jen will have control of our digi-cam. Least year, we took over 200 pictures... this year we are going for more! Not to mention we are going to try to get ride videos of all the rides :)

The weather looks like it is holding out for us, which is a good thing. No tropical storms on the map right now... YAY! But even if one does hit while we are down there, no biggie... From what we have read, it only impacts people one day, and the parks are usually empty but functional the next day.

Sorry this was such an upbeat and non-logical post. Disney does that to me sometimes. Makes me... happy (weird). Especially knowing the look both Jen and Bugs will have on their face when we pass through the gates... Not to mention my mom.

If you didn't hear (or don't care), my parents are coming along this time. While they have been to Disney World before, they have never done what we are doing this year. My mother is very excited. She has never stayed on property, or eaten at so many of the "in park" restaraunts as we are this trip. Her and Dad don't have to drive around, since we are not renting cars (we are doing only Disney things, not going off site). And Matt and I are fully grown, which means they don't have to watch over us. They get to RELAX this entire vacation, and do nothing but spoil a 6 year old girl that they can hand back over to us if she gets out of hand!

Anyway, this will probably be my last post until our official "send off" on Monday! We have a lot of packing to do, and a little more shopping left. It's going to be a quick week, and if we don't do it now... we will be rushing at the last minute!

Have a good week all!