Disney Day 1

Ok so this trip started off on a really bad note.

We missed our flight. And not just by like a few minutes. 

I'm talking we woke up at 6:15 when we should have been on the road at like 4am. No joke. Our flight was leaving Syracuse (an hour away) in exactly an hour. There was NO WAY we could get dressed and get there and through security in time. Humanly impossible.

SO Ryan gets on the phone with jet blue while I get Aidan and myself dressed and the suitcase officially packed for the last time. They were kind enough to get us on the 9:15 flight and we ran out the door (literally), coffee in hand (Thanks Nani!!) to catch our flight.

We were waiting to surprise Aidan so he had no idea we were going to Disney, we just kept telling him we were going on a big adventure. We waited until the airport to tell him , and I captured it on video hoping he was going to have a great reaction. Well, it wasn't what I had hoped, but hey he is only 2....

Unfortunately we had to take a flight with a layover, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, right? So we did end up visiting NYC for about an hour ;)

We got to Orlando and the Magic Express picked us up and brought us to The Contemporary, where we were staying.

Aidan immediately got off the bus and started calling for Mickey.

"Mickeeeeeeey! Oh Mickeeeeeey!"

Absolutely hilarious. He totally thought that since we told him we were going to "Mickey's House" that Mickey was going to be there when we arrived.

We got checked in and dropped our stuff off in our room, where Aidan was literally bouncing off the walls with excitement, and headed to Epcot since we had a character dinner with Mickey, Pluto, Chip, and Dale that night at The Garden Grill.

Of course he passed out 30 seconds after we walked through the entry gates, so we let him sleep until we had to sit for our reservation (we went to the UK and got a drink to kill some time, heehee), and even though he was overtired and crabby he was still thrilled to meet the characters at dinner!

When dinner was over we still had plenty of time to hang out at Epcot so we headed straight for The Seas which is where Nemo and Friends is located. We went on the clamshell Finding Nemo ride and then we explored some of the indoor aquarium and play area that's attached.

Once we were all done with that we hopped back on the monorail to head back home where we decided to call it a night since the next day we had a full day together out in the parks......

...to be continued.

:)