Today’s another Blog-tember challenge day!!!
Tell a tale of traveling, a city or country you’ve been to or a favorite vacation.
I had originally planned to tell of my trip to Spain, but apparently those photos are only on my parents computer! so, I decided to share our honeymoon! It was so much fun, even though we had to get up super duper early the day after our wedding to catch a ride up to Portland to catch our flight to Florida! And yes, we went to DisneyWorld. I think we were the only couple who didn’t gain weight on our honeymoon! With all our allergies and doing the crazy amount of walking we did, I think we actually lost weight!
Our hotel was super super nice, but we had to catch a public bus to get to downtown Disney in order to get a Disney bus to go to Epcot, Animal Kingdom or Magic Kingdom. In other words, it was a little interesting making sure our timing was right for the bus schedules! I was glad I had packed my ever-trusty Chaco sandals for all the walking we did, but on almost the last day, the heat and swelling of my feet caused some serious blisters!
So we started out at Downtown Disney. So fun there – they had a serious Lego store which I could have splurged at like crazy if I was a millionare, which I’m not. So I didn’t. I loved the Christmas store (poor OH) , Mickey store and there was a sandwich shop that was primarily where we ate out. (Disney + food allergies = difficult) Plus they had a Pooh and Tigger statues you could catch a photo with!
Then we went on to Epcot – which I absolutely loved. That you can walk through different ‘countries’ was so cool – it would have been so fun to be able to grab food from some of them too. ha. Then, there was a miniature train village set up and I have since decided I want one like it! It was on a little hill side and had everything. SO COOL. I love trains. (yes, i realize i sounded a bit like a six year old boy when i said that.)
The next day we went to Animal Kingdom. We didn’t enjoy it as much, honestly. It seemed to be geared more for kids.The walk through the ‘jungle’ seeing the animals was cool. And we rode a ‘train’ around the whole place but ended up wishing that we had skipped it and gone straight to the Magic Kingdom.
Sadly, due to the traveling and so much physical activity, I got a migraine the next day so we stayed at the hotel and I slept most of the day away. The OH was sweet and searched out some food and a deck of cards for us later in the day. Thankfully, I felt better the next day so we were able to go to the Magic Kingdom. Sigh of happiness right there.
The rides at all the places were fun, we didn’t get pictures with any characters because the lines were crazy long and I just don’t have that patience, we ran two blocks through a downpour to get to our hotel, we ran a LOT to catch the correct bus, we got blisters on our feet and got ripped off by a ‘christian’ taxi driver and on the way back my OH had to sit next to a guy that doesn’t believe in deodorant or bathing… but it was a wonderful time. We were ready to be home by the last day. We missed having more options/less expensive food.
We are discussing going to DisneyLand for our 2nd anniversary, which he’s never been to and I went there for my 15th birthday. Is it kind of obvious that i’m a Disney nerd??
first row is at Downtown Disney
next bunch odd are Epcot
yes, that is an M&M vending machine… how COOL is that??
next bunch is Animal Kingdom – how often do you get to see a hippo swim right in front of you?
the rest are Magic Kingdom. – bottom right is Rapunzel’s castle (!) and the last is of a piano man that played incredible!
Have you been to DisneyWorld or Land? What was your favorite part?
the start of a good life 
What a fun trip! I’ve never been to epcot before and now I think I have to!
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It was so very cool- the architecture fit each country, the restaurants, sigh. plus you could ride a ferry =)
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I love all of your pictures, but especially the dwarves and Monsters Inc!
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i loved the character shrubs! I took way too many pictures of them!
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Fun!! Looks like such a great honeymoon 🙂 I’ve been to both and I must say that I love Disneyworld a lot better!
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i am looking forward to it – especially the fact that it is a whole lot smaller heh =)
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This seems like such a fun honeymoon!!!
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it really was!!!
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Oh my gosh, looks like you had so much fun! 🙂 My honeymoon was hands down the best vacation I’ve ever been on!
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i love to hear that! it’s so sad when honeymoons are horrible!
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I LOVE Disney! I’ve only been to Disneyland once but I’ve been to Disney World ever year since I was like 5 (I’m actually spending Christmas day 2014 there!) What an amazing trip ❤
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oh wow – how lucky are you? every year and Christmas day this year? i hope you share photos!
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This would be so much fun to do with my bf! I so want to eventually!
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you should! make sure your hotel is part of a resort that offers Disney bussing – that would have saved us so much time!
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Ah!!! What a fantastic looking honeymoon! We want to go to DisneyLand Florida with our little boy when he’s three or four, can’t wait!
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thanks! i never dreamed that’s where i’d go for my honeymoon but it was so fun!
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One of my good friends and her husband just left for their honeymoon at Disney World! 🙂 You definitely do A LOT of walking there! So fun to see your pictures and hear about your honeymoon experience!
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oh how fun to hear that! thanks for stopping by and commenting!
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Looks and sounds like a blast! Florida is one of our fav vacay spots and we are long over due for their beaches!
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it’s the only time we’ve been to Florida, we really wanted to get to a beach while we were there (our beaches here in Oregon are cold) but didn’t have the time.
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I love that you had your honeymoon at Disney! What fun!
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i know – i always thought it would be Ireland or some such exotic destination! =)
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Sounds so fun! I’ve never been to Florida or Epcot. Looks like it is amazing.
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it was so much fun – except the humidity, that was not so fun
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It looks like you had a great honeymoon! Thanks for sharing the photos and your story!
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absolutely!! thanks for stopping by!
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I love Florida, looks like had so much fun!v
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That looks like so much fun! I hope you guys enjoyed yourselves!
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we did! we still talk about it =) Thanks for coming by
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I had my honeymoon at Disney too! Great mind…. Great, dorky minds…
xoxo
The Accidental Mama
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hehe! I know! what’s so funny is that he’s not a huge Disney fan like I am and he came up with the idea =) Would love to hear about your honeymoon
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Ahh what a fun honeymoon!! I would love to go to Disneyworld! My husband and I live near Disneyland but we still haven’t gone together! I can’t wait to get our passes.
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oh no way!!! You must go!!! Plan at least 2 days for Magic Kingdom – wish we would have!
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I’m hoping to go with the family to Disneyland next year – neither of us have ever been and we’d love to take the kids
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ooh man, you must take the littles!!!
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This looks like so much fun! We didn’t quite make it over to Disney when we went to Florida, it was wayyyy too hot then.
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I really, really want to go to DisneyLand one day. Can’t wait till I one day have kids and an excuse to go 😉
Katie ❤
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eh, why wait?! Go now! =) It’s still super fun!
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I am such a Disney nerd too, along with my husband. We went to Disneyland for our 2nd Anniversary. We are planning on going to Disneyworld for our 5 year anniversary in one year. We are so excited 🙂 Looks like so much fun. Do you have any other tips about Disneyworld?
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Looks like a fun trip! Florida’s not high on my list of places I want to go to, but I’d like to visit someday. 🙂
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