Wednesday, May 7:
Our flight didn't leave out of Raleigh until 2:20, so DH actually went into work that morning for a few hours, leaving me with the kids to get the house cleaned and the little things packed. All went well, and we hit the road around 10:30. I always feel weird driving to Raleigh for a flight since we only live 15 minutes away from an airport with nonstop flights to Orlando, but it's the difference between $125 tickets and $225, but I digress...
Jump forward a few hours, and we're in sunny Orlando! I didn't read the directions that came with the Magical Express vouchers, so we went to the old counter instead of the new one. No biggie, just felt like I wasted 5 minutes of WDW time! We ended up on a bus taking people to all four of the MK resorts. We didn't have to wait inside at all, but we did have to wait about 20 minutes on the bus itself waiting on people. The best part, though, was that the Polynesian was the first stop!
At check-in, I was at first disappointed in our room, Tahiti 1002. I had requested Tokelau 2nd or 3rd floor. But once in our room, I was immediately in love. I really don't like the patio rooms at the Poly, but ours was awesome because the entire patio was blocked by lots of mature vegetiation, so no one could look in at all, and we had a beautiful view of nature. The only downside was that the floor was absolutely filthy - my 10 month old (Emma) was crawling around, and her hands, knees and toes were black! We complained, it was fixed, but still gross! This was the only negative about our room, and it was gone after Day 1. We had also requested a crib, and the room didn't have one, but that was fine and Emma just slept in the bed with me.
I had thought about going to Downtown Disney our first night to go to the Lego store because our son, Will, is starting to get into Legos. But DH wanted to go to a park, so we ended up at the MK. We were hungry and tried to get a walk in at the Plaza, but they were completely booked. We ended up having some yummy burgers and fries at Pecos Bills. I was trying to put the fixins on my burger and Will's burger at the same time. Right when I was almost done, I dropped the top of Will's bun. I just gave him the top off of mine and ate mine open face, but I felt so bad!
After we got some food in our stomachs, we were in a much better mood than before, and we hit some rides. We rode PoTC twice, then we headed off for Fantasyland. The crowds were thinning, so we wanted to get as much in as we could that night. We walked right on to Small World, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. There was an hour wait for Peter Pan, so we headed over to Tomorrowland and got on Buzz a few times. Will and DH headed for Astro Orbiter, so me and Emma got on the TTA. I hadn't been on the TTA since it was the WedWay People Mover, but it was rather relaxing! Emma fell asleep very quickly on it, which was super good. We ended the night by racing down Main Street during the fireworks trying to beat the rush on the Monorail for our trip back to the Poly.
We all slept very well that first night.
Our flight didn't leave out of Raleigh until 2:20, so DH actually went into work that morning for a few hours, leaving me with the kids to get the house cleaned and the little things packed. All went well, and we hit the road around 10:30. I always feel weird driving to Raleigh for a flight since we only live 15 minutes away from an airport with nonstop flights to Orlando, but it's the difference between $125 tickets and $225, but I digress...
Jump forward a few hours, and we're in sunny Orlando! I didn't read the directions that came with the Magical Express vouchers, so we went to the old counter instead of the new one. No biggie, just felt like I wasted 5 minutes of WDW time! We ended up on a bus taking people to all four of the MK resorts. We didn't have to wait inside at all, but we did have to wait about 20 minutes on the bus itself waiting on people. The best part, though, was that the Polynesian was the first stop!
At check-in, I was at first disappointed in our room, Tahiti 1002. I had requested Tokelau 2nd or 3rd floor. But once in our room, I was immediately in love. I really don't like the patio rooms at the Poly, but ours was awesome because the entire patio was blocked by lots of mature vegetiation, so no one could look in at all, and we had a beautiful view of nature. The only downside was that the floor was absolutely filthy - my 10 month old (Emma) was crawling around, and her hands, knees and toes were black! We complained, it was fixed, but still gross! This was the only negative about our room, and it was gone after Day 1. We had also requested a crib, and the room didn't have one, but that was fine and Emma just slept in the bed with me.
I had thought about going to Downtown Disney our first night to go to the Lego store because our son, Will, is starting to get into Legos. But DH wanted to go to a park, so we ended up at the MK. We were hungry and tried to get a walk in at the Plaza, but they were completely booked. We ended up having some yummy burgers and fries at Pecos Bills. I was trying to put the fixins on my burger and Will's burger at the same time. Right when I was almost done, I dropped the top of Will's bun. I just gave him the top off of mine and ate mine open face, but I felt so bad!
After we got some food in our stomachs, we were in a much better mood than before, and we hit some rides. We rode PoTC twice, then we headed off for Fantasyland. The crowds were thinning, so we wanted to get as much in as we could that night. We walked right on to Small World, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. There was an hour wait for Peter Pan, so we headed over to Tomorrowland and got on Buzz a few times. Will and DH headed for Astro Orbiter, so me and Emma got on the TTA. I hadn't been on the TTA since it was the WedWay People Mover, but it was rather relaxing! Emma fell asleep very quickly on it, which was super good. We ended the night by racing down Main Street during the fireworks trying to beat the rush on the Monorail for our trip back to the Poly.
We all slept very well that first night.
