The Floss Report – Live From Disney Day 1

So the day started at a brisk 3:30AM Sunday morning. The family got up disgustingly early to prepare for the biggest journey of our lives.

We arrived at Milwaukee airport at about 6am for a 7:30 flight. We got lucky and boarded on time, leaving the 38 degree Milwaukee at 7:40am. I feared 2 things at this point. One, our plane was a MD80. We were told it would be an MD81, but was in fact an MD 80. This was the plane that was recently grounded by the FAA for American Airlines. Lucky we flew Midway and they have not been grounded yet.
Second was the idea of 3 hours in the air with my kids and no escape. I love the girls, but I have a short fuse for freekin’ out and crying kids. Good news is they both loved the flight and flying. No crying, complaining, nothing. Bad news is the folks next to us did not have such a cooperative child. At least it wasn’t my kids causing the headaches.

OK, so at 11am local time we land in Orlando Florida. The weather was a cool 70 degrees. We left the airport after sitting in line about an hour for a bus to our hotel. We got there about 1pm only to find out our room was not ready, so with bags and kids in tow, we walked to our suite. It’s not like a hotel, but a series of hotels. For example our resort is made up of over 30 buildings, 8 pools, and has a round road that goes around the whole place being over 3 miles long. So we walked to our set of hotels only to find out they were the furthest away. Yikes…

OK, we get there and the room is still not ready… So I go swimming with the girls. I thought we may be delayed getting our room so we packed out suits in our carry ons. The girls and I swim and finally we get our room. No sooner are we in then Erin wants to head over to the Magic Kingdom… We arrive and take a trolley car down the main road when suddenly the street curves and we see it…


Yup folks… that’s what this whole trip has been about. Every time the girls were bad… Every time we needed some kind of leverage… we used this castle as the bait, the bargain, the “you need to be good or” item…

And now we are here and it seems it was all worth it just for the look in the girls faces. And this was just the beginning.

We ended the night with a few rides on Dumbo and Flying Carpets… and made our way back to the hotel to rest preparing for the next big adventure. The next day at Disney which would be our first full throttle day at the busiest place for kids in the world.

Fast fact about this Florida for Sunday.

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