Disney World - Day 1 (Arrival & Epcot)

We have been planning our Walt Disney World (WDW) trip to celebrate Holland's 5th birthday for over a year now.  None of us have been to WDW so we were all very excited.  Our trip started at 4:00 am getting up to drive to the WF airport.  Here are the girls before their first airplane ride.

 

They did great!  They were quiet, looked around, and had a great time.  Now for another flight from DFW to Orlando.  Here they are after their first airplane ride! 

WDW picked us up on their Magical Express.  It was so exciting!  I don't know who was more excited, me or the girls!?!?!

 

We wanted to stay close to Magic Kingdom so we chose the Wilderness Lodge.  It was amazing!  Looks like a huge log cabin and even has a geyser!  Here's the view from our balcony.

 

 After a change of clothes, we we're on our way to Epcot!

 

At Epcot, we saw Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, Snow White, Mary Poppins, and Alice (in Wonderland).  It's so cool to see these characters and how they act in character.  Mary Poppins was British and told us to have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day and Alice in Wonderland asked Holland what rabbit hole she came down.  Sooooo cool!!!  Now, Britton couldn't wait to see them from far away, but when we would get up close to any character, she would shy away and act scared.  Holland was the opposite.  She couldn't wait to see and hug all the characters.  One more awesome thing is the Disney PhotoPass+.  For one price, we received over 300 photos of Disney characters, locations, parks, etc AND we received ALL 365 park photos taken of us on a CD.  Before you order your free photo CD, you can edit and add Disney magic to all of the photos.  Amazing!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At night on the lake, we heard something and looked out our window to see a boat parade........ for a better word for it.  There was music playing while these light up characters go by.

It's been a long day......... time for bed.