Walt Disney World - Here We Come!

After hours and hours of planning our trip with Jill and Robby's family, the time had come!!  It had only been a couple of years since just Glenn and I had went (for adult time without kids) but I couldn't believe how many changes had been made in that short time!

Because Jill had Frontier vouchers, we had to fly with them and let me tell you, their flight times were NOT great!!  Since we didn't want to fly out at 12:15am and arrive at 5:30am (because honestly, you would just be TOO tired to do a park that day AND you can't check into your Disney Hotel till 2:00pm!!) our only other option was to do a short layover in Grand Rapids, MI and then continue on to Orlando!

It was an EARLY morning for all of us but we arrived to long lines at Frontier and luckily we all made it through!!  I grabbed breakfast sandwiches for all of us and we ate quickly before we boarded our plane!  It was a LONG flight with that stop in Grand Rapids (no time to get off the plane though) and we were sure glad when we landed in Orlando!!

 We grabbed chicken to go and were excited as we boarded the Disney Magical Express for our ride to our Disney Hotel!!    Soon we drove through the official gates to Walt Disney World!

We chose to stay at Pop Century - our rooms were located in the 70's section and we were thrilled that we were very close to the dining and buses!!

After checking in we raced to our rooms and were excited to see we had the 2 queen beds per room that we had requested!!  The rooms had all been recently refurbished so were beautiful!!  And we had connecting rooms which made it so nice!!

Here is one of the large numbers that were all around the area!

Mickey was right in front of our building - he was HUGE!!!

The kids changed into their swimsuits to swim in the large pool while Glenn napped and Robby watched the kids so Jill and I could check out the dining area and the bus area!

Dinner was good - Jill and I had decided ahead of time that we would split meals as neither one of us can eat a large portion and it worked out great the rest of the time!  Food is NOT cheap!  But at least it was really good throughout all of the parks!

Jill and I walked around a little bit after dark and saw this huge Rubik's cube - all the decor were toy items from the 70's which was really fun!!!  They also had a 50's, 60's, 80's and I believe a 90's section also!

I had decided in advance that I would give the kids a small gift each night, along with 24 sets for each of quarters and pennies so they could do the pressed pennies in each park.  This first night they received glow sticks for the evening show and Jill gave them each a cute lanyard with a change purse to put their pressed pennies in!

We were all pretty exhausted from the long trip and we knew it would be an early morning for us with the 2 hour time change so we all hit the sack pretty early!!