Well, THAT was fun!

Seriously! It was! Disney World is an overpriced playground in the middle of a swamp, but it's still neat. *Operation Ears* went off pretty well. Frodo was NOT fond of getting up at 5am. We told him we were going to the airport with Aunt Jen. He went to bed on Friday night just fine, but was stomping around and pouting on Saturday morning. It was so hard not to laugh at him!

We got to the airport, opened the trunk of the car, and I pulled out his backpack and handed it to him. He looked at me, and I asked him, "Why do you think you might need your backpack?"

"I don't know", he answers.

"Do you think maybe it's because WE are going somewhere and not Aunt Jen?" Then he started running around us in circles in the parking garage. We told him we were headed to Disney World and he had a big smile.

No problem with the security checkpoint stuff here at home. Zippity zoom. We flew into Dallas/Ft Worth and had a couple hour layover. That's a nice airport. From there we flew to Orlando. Disney has something called "Disney's Magical Express" which is a bus service from the airport to your hotel. It was great! (Except for the passenger on her cell phone who was talking WAAAAYY to loud.) They even pick up your checked baggage for you and drop it off at your room. Very cool.

After we dropped our carry on baggage in our room, we grabbed a bite to eat then headed to Magic Kingdom. We did half of that park, then went back to the room and collapsed. We slept in Sunday then had a late breakfast and went to Animal Kingdom. Never made it on Expedition Everest though. :( I could do without Animal Kingdom otherwise though. It didn't impress me all that much. That evening, we went back to Magic Kingdom and did the other half. Eric loved the Buzz Lightyear ride. We did that one quite a few times. We went on the "Carousel of Progress" and laughed our butts off at the *future* section. "Mickey's Philharmonic" was awesome. And I love Space Mountain. That's my favorite ride.

Monday, we went to Epcot and did part of it. I was so disappointed they changed "The Living Seas" and they don't have the tram that takes you thru the tunnel under the water. I always liked that part best. Then we came back to the hotel and enjoyed some time at the pool. Then we headed to Downtown Disney and ate at Planet Hollywood. I could also do without Downtown Disney. It didn't impress me that much either.

Tuesday, we went back to Epcot and did all the countries and more of the other stuff. We collected a pressed penny from every country! That was fun trying to find each penny machine.

I liked the "Test Track" ride at Epcot. I refused to do "Mission Space" though since a couple folks have died on that ride in the past year. Besides, any ride that offers a barf bag as you enter is NOT my cup of tea. ;) And as always, all the fountains at Epcot were really cool. Every time we go to the garden center, Frodo loves to look at the little fountains there and always asks when we can get one in our yard. So I told him he could put a fountain like one of the Epcot ones in our yard. He looked at it, sighed, and said, "ooookaaaay". LOL!

And can you believe we didn't watch a single parade or a single fireworks show? LOL! And Frodo wanted to avoid "Cinderellabration" like the plague, lol. Boys are so funny.

Overall, the trip was HOT. OMG, how the southerners do this? It was humid and in the low 90s the whole time we were there. And it's only April!!!! What is it like in July?!?!?!? Yikes! It was nice seeing all the trees with leaves and all the flowers blooming. (Roses already?!?!? Yum!! And gardenias! I've never smelled those before! Wow!!!)

Our trip home, we used the "Magical Express" thing again. Smooth. But even though it picked us up almost 4 hours before our flight, I thought we weren't going to make our flight! I couldn't believe how looooong the security checkpoint line was at the Orlando airport!!! Wowza! As we stood there waiting, it was funny to watch every person that walked in say, "OMG!" LOL.

Once we got on the plane, we had a lot of stupid people on that flight, lol. They couldn't figure out to sit in their seats. A few times, the flight attendant and the captain came on saying, "the plane is ready to leave, but we can't go until everyone is in their seat and buckled in". LOL!!! We made it into DFW and *just* made our connecting flight home. As we're boarding our flight to home, a gentleman in the front seat of the plane says hello to me. It was my doctor. Start singing "It's a Small World" with me! (We did NOT go on that ride. It makes hubby homicidal.)

We're already talking about a "next time". :)