RELAX!!!

That is what we were told over and over before we left for vacation to see Mickey Mouse in Florida. Let me see if I can remember a little bit so I can share for anyone who actually reads this blog.

The 15th dawned very cold at home. It was a whopping 29 degrees the morning we left (the day before was 79 degrees). Okay I need to back this up just a little bit to share a God-thing on the day before we left. Eric and I are super A-type personalities and we try to plan things out dotting every I and crossing every T. Eric and I decided we would head to the airport and check out where we were going to park and know exactly where we needed to go from there. We didn't realize that we had to pay just to go into the airport. We were there all of maybe 10 minutes. But here is the God-thing. As we were paying our $1 (slightly begrudgingly) the airport employee gave us a coupon for airport parking both terminal and valet. We were planning on paying $10 a day to park terminal but thanks to this coupon we were able to park VALET for $11 a day right across from where our plane was departing and arriving. Valet parking is usually $21 a day so we could see that God was taking care of us and our worries of being late for the plane. Woo-hoo!!! Okay so back to the day we left: not much happened. We got to the airport with our bags already checked in and our tickets we already checked in too. We met a nice couple from Canada visiting their children and then heading to Florida for some warmth during the winter. Andrew did a GREAT job riding in the plane for his first ride. Here are some pictures from what we got to see that morning as we soared over the clouds.

It was so pretty seeing the fluffy clouds. It was a little windy but not too much turbulence. We got to Orlando and the temps were beautiful. After loading onto the Disney's Magical Express we were off to our home for the next 10 days. We stayed at the Disney's All-Stars Movies Value Resort. We knew the Andrew loved Toy Story so we requested a room in the Toy Story section. Our room was on the Sheriff Woody side. The room was nothing really to write home about but it was cozy. Here are some pictures from our room:

Every night we would say "Good Night Woody". Andrew even got his picture riding in RC or I should say on:

We really had no plans except to go to Downtown Disney to start our relaxing vacation. We looked through all the shops and dined at Planet Hollywood. Eric and I loved what we ordered for dinner but Andrew didn't care for the PB&J that he asked for. Come to find out it was crunchy PB and Andrew doesn't like the crunch. Andrew loved the Lego store. He and Eric played with the provided legos. We took pictures on the Harley motorcycles in the Harley Davidson shop. So after dinner we started to make our way back to the resort. We got to bed early'ish. Here are a few more pictures from Downtown Disney:

How cute are these ears!!!

That about covers our first day. I will close out for now but I will return tomorrow to try to blog more about our trip.

BTW, Happy New Year! We have had a terrific day and look forward to what this year has in store for us. I know there will be changes (some good, some not so good) but I also know who holds our future and we are in God's hands.

God bless each of you,

Stephany