Hatten's Annual Countdown to Christmas: Disney Part 1

I figured that I would break down our Disney trip into parts. Easier for me to blog all the events if I separate them. So...we flew out on Sunday, September 30. Flight was pretty ordinary. Boys did pretty well once the plane started moving. We landed, grabbed our luggage and jumped on the Disney shuttle to our hotel. We jumped in the pool as soon as we arrived at the hotel and then grabbed dinner. Stopped to check out another hotel on the way back to ours and then watched the fireworks over Magic Kingdom before putting the kids to bed.

Looking for lizards at the Wilderness Lodge

The boys checking out the view from our patio

Our first full day was set up for breakfast at Chef Mickey's with all the characters from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Donald & Daisy). That went pretty well except for Kale being really upset when the characters were not physically at our table. He barely ate anything and just whined for them to come back, but the boys loved all the characters. Our plan was then to go to Epcot and catch some of the rides the boys would be interested in and also stroll through the food & wine fest in the countries of Epcot. We had to go get our tickets reissued because ours were in storage. What was supposed to be a really easy, quick process took about an hour. Cameron was at Customer Relations trying to take care of the ticket problem and I was with the boys. Kale kept rubbing his eyes more and more and I finally figured out that he had sunscreen in them. He was very upset, kind of crying, snotting everywhere and nothing was helping. Once we finally got our tickets and got into the park, Kale was in a full blown crying fit and I was about to pull my hair out. Forgot to mention that prior to getting to Epcot, Dane was throwing a major fit on the monorail saying he wanted to go back to the room. So...the first morning of our vacation wasn't getting off to a good start. I think gouging out my eyes with a fork would have been more fun than the most magical place on earth. BUT I powered through and we finally got Kale's eyes flushed out and stayed out of the sun so he could recover and things started going much better. Cameron was a trooper through dealing with 2 whiney kiddos and a cranky wife. After a few rides and lunch, both boys fell asleep in the stroller. HALLELUJAH!! After the boys woke up, things went MUCH better and the rest of the day was actually fun!