Disney Day 1

So, after spending a couple of days at the Nick hotel, we got up early that Sunday morning and tried to make "rope drop" at Magic Kingdom. (Rope drop is when the park actually opens. If you are there before the park opens, you will see Cast Members actually holding a rope until the park opens.) In Bruce's defense, even though he scoffs at rope drop, he was the one ready and I was the one who held everyone up.

We had to check in at our hotel first, so I knew that making rope drop was going to be nearly impossible. We left the Nick hotel, thinking we were going to pass a McD's on the way so that we could get breakfast. That didn't happen. We got to the hotel and Bruce went to check us in. We waited in the van, thinking we would go to MK from there. Bruce came and got us because the front desk cast member needed to see all of us. Seems we had been chosen "Family of the Day" by the hotel. They also said they knew we were celebrating our anniversary. We were given balloons, a certificate and our picture was taken. They told us our room was ready for us, too. We now needed a place to drop off the balloons and certificate, so we went to see the room. We told the valet that our room was ready, but he didn't seem to understand.

Notice in the picture that Jonah is holding his Blue that he got when we were at Nick hotel. That is important to the story.

We went to the room and dropped off our balloons, certificate and Jonah's Blue. We then went to the MK for a few hours. We had kind of a late start, and this was on a Sunday, so MK was busy. We didn't do nearly what I had planned for us to do, but we still had a good time.

We returned to the room to relax a little bit and unpack before we went to dinner. When we arrived at the room, I noticed something was off. I couldn't figure out what. Then, one of the children said, "Blue's gone. And, our balloons." I looked around, and we could not find any of it. Seems that the housekeeper (actually called "mousekeeper") thought that our items were left over from the previous occupants because our luggage had not made it to the room yet.

No problem, I thought, we will just call and they will bring Blue back. If only it had been that simple. That story will be continued...

More pictures

Not that you asked, but I am going to share more pictures from our trip. I will add more details later. I am kind of frustrated with Facebook this morning because I was trying to upload pictures, and I couldn't. So, you get to be bombarded here.


We started our vacation at the Nickelodeon hotel. Now, some of you who know me will find this very ironic. We do block the Nick channel on our T.V. with the exception of Dora, Diego and few other preschool shows that the children like to watch on occassion. Funny thing, the irony of suppoprting a channel that we ban for the most part hit me as we drove into the hotel's parking lot. We were doing this because Cara's favorite character is Dora and when we went to Disney two years ago, we passed by this hotel everyday. We knew that if we went back anytime soon we would have to stay there. I have to say, if you can get past all the Spongebob craziness, it is a great hotel for kids. They can be loud and have a good time without worrying about disturbing others.

We stayed in the Dora suite for a couple of nights. We were supposed to be there the first night, but for some reason a Dora room was not available when we got there. Even though I had called them that morning and double checked to make sure that we would have the suite when we arrived. They did give Cara a small Dora to make up for it and put us in a three bedroom suite that was very nice. It was the Fairly Oddparents suite, which of course is a show that we have blocked on our T.V.
Parents of preschoolers should recognize this chair. It's the Blue's Clues chair.
Just getting some sibling loving and I was playing around with my new camera Bruce gave me for Valentine's Day/early birthday present.
Can you tell that Cara was in heaven? Dora was at a breakfast buffet that we enjoyed while we were there.

Celebrating 10 years

Well, if you follow me on Facebook, or keep up with us in person, you know that Adriana came through her surgery just fine. I have been meaning to catch the blog up, but have been unable to do so because of schoolwork (mine) and trying to get ready for our 10th anniversary trip.

I will share more later this week, but the short version is that Bruce decided to surprise me with trip for our anniversary. He decided to book a trip for the whole family to Walt Disney World. The trip ended up not being so secretive, which ended up being a good thing. We just got back this weekend and we are all exhausted. I will give more details later this week, but here is a picture to enjoy until then.