Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy this trip report! My husband and just got back from our Disney World and Disney Cruise Line honeymoon, and to help with my back to reality depression, I've decided to start on this trip report.
I'll give you guys a little bit of background first. Before this trip, I had been to Disney World five times (once as a child, once as a teen, and three times as an adult). And every time I've loved it. Whenever I see Cinderella Castle it's like I'm nine years old again and seeing it for the first time. As an adult, I traveled with my best friend Megan (a fellow Disney World fan) and her son Brett. But our last trip was two years ago! I was seriously having withdraw.
This time I went with my husband, Justin. He has never been to Disney before (I know its hard to imagine). He as tolerated my Disney obsession very well. But of course when we were talking about were we wanted to honeymoon my first thought was "Disney!" Justin resisted, he wanted to do a cruise. So our compromise was to do a Disney Cruise. I've lived - and will probably always live - in Illinois, so if I was already going to Florida, there was no way I was going to miss a trip the Disney World. So after a couple months of constant pestering he caved.
Because I paid for half of the wedding myself, we honestly didn't have the money to go right after the wedding, which was in May. So we used most of the wedding money to pay for the trip and went on our honeymoon from October 4th through the 11th.
As usual, I booked my ADRs and planned the itinerary, which I honestly think is half the fun. I was ready.
But then that stupid thing called reality hits me. And by that I mean a deer...I hit a deer two days before we were to leave. I hit a deer in my BRAND NEW CAR. No one needed a vacation like I did. We drove to St. Louis on Oct 3 - after Justin got off of work - and stayed at the Best Western by the airport. It wasn't the greatest hotel, but we would have spent that much in parking for a week. If we hadn't had stayed the night in St. Louis we would have had to leave around 3 in the morning to make our early flight. They had a shuttle to the airport and parking was included. It was totally worth it.
Some time around 7am, waiting for our flight.
View from above.
Waiting for the Magical Express
We stayed at the All Star Music. I had booked a preferred room and it was well worth the extra money. We were in the Calypso building, right next to the main building.
We went to Downtown Disney to pick up a couple personalized Christmas ornaments, then headed over to Epcot for some drinking around the world. This was a big highlight in how I convinced Justin to go to Disney in the first place, and I thought that after being up since 430 that morning, it would be a nice, relaxed evening.
But of course by then we were starving. And when my husband gets hungry, he gets the temperament of a toddler, so we stopped at the first place we saw trying to pacify him. It was the Electric Umbrella.
Has anyone ever watched the YouTube video with Hitler trying to get an ADR to Le Cellier and can't and he talks about how the Electric Umbrella stinks? If not, please watch it, its freaking hilarious. But getting back to the TR, Hitler was right - the Electric Umbrella is NOT good. We both got bacon cheeseburgers and I was expecting something like Cosmic Rays. I still don't understand how the same food can be so different. Oh well, learned my lesson.
But the best way to get over that lapse in judgement is a fiesta margarita from Mexico!
Did anyone notice all the clouds in the background of the last picture? Yeah, I started raining, then pouring, and then raining some more....but more on that tomorrow.
I'll give you guys a little bit of background first. Before this trip, I had been to Disney World five times (once as a child, once as a teen, and three times as an adult). And every time I've loved it. Whenever I see Cinderella Castle it's like I'm nine years old again and seeing it for the first time. As an adult, I traveled with my best friend Megan (a fellow Disney World fan) and her son Brett. But our last trip was two years ago! I was seriously having withdraw.
This time I went with my husband, Justin. He has never been to Disney before (I know its hard to imagine). He as tolerated my Disney obsession very well. But of course when we were talking about were we wanted to honeymoon my first thought was "Disney!" Justin resisted, he wanted to do a cruise. So our compromise was to do a Disney Cruise. I've lived - and will probably always live - in Illinois, so if I was already going to Florida, there was no way I was going to miss a trip the Disney World. So after a couple months of constant pestering he caved.
Because I paid for half of the wedding myself, we honestly didn't have the money to go right after the wedding, which was in May. So we used most of the wedding money to pay for the trip and went on our honeymoon from October 4th through the 11th.
As usual, I booked my ADRs and planned the itinerary, which I honestly think is half the fun. I was ready.
But then that stupid thing called reality hits me. And by that I mean a deer...I hit a deer two days before we were to leave. I hit a deer in my BRAND NEW CAR. No one needed a vacation like I did. We drove to St. Louis on Oct 3 - after Justin got off of work - and stayed at the Best Western by the airport. It wasn't the greatest hotel, but we would have spent that much in parking for a week. If we hadn't had stayed the night in St. Louis we would have had to leave around 3 in the morning to make our early flight. They had a shuttle to the airport and parking was included. It was totally worth it.
Some time around 7am, waiting for our flight.
View from above.
Waiting for the Magical Express
We stayed at the All Star Music. I had booked a preferred room and it was well worth the extra money. We were in the Calypso building, right next to the main building.
We went to Downtown Disney to pick up a couple personalized Christmas ornaments, then headed over to Epcot for some drinking around the world. This was a big highlight in how I convinced Justin to go to Disney in the first place, and I thought that after being up since 430 that morning, it would be a nice, relaxed evening.
But of course by then we were starving. And when my husband gets hungry, he gets the temperament of a toddler, so we stopped at the first place we saw trying to pacify him. It was the Electric Umbrella.
Has anyone ever watched the YouTube video with Hitler trying to get an ADR to Le Cellier and can't and he talks about how the Electric Umbrella stinks? If not, please watch it, its freaking hilarious. But getting back to the TR, Hitler was right - the Electric Umbrella is NOT good. We both got bacon cheeseburgers and I was expecting something like Cosmic Rays. I still don't understand how the same food can be so different. Oh well, learned my lesson.
But the best way to get over that lapse in judgement is a fiesta margarita from Mexico!
Did anyone notice all the clouds in the background of the last picture? Yeah, I started raining, then pouring, and then raining some more....but more on that tomorrow.
