We survived our first vacation as a family of 5! I was completely worried about how it would go with The Baby and Little Monster. Little Monster is, well a little monster... she is at her difficult stage and I wasn't sure how she was going to act while we were there. But all 3 kids were absolutely amazing!
For the drive down, Tiny Dancer rode with my parents in their truck. This way we could stow-n-go our back seats and pack everything in there. We left Friday night for Nashville and that 5 hour trip (which took about 6 1/2 or so) went really well. We stopped to eat and The Baby ate twice during that time. The next morning, we woke up early and left for Orlando. That 11 hour trip took us about 14 hours. YIKES. We had to stop to feed The Baby several times, but every time we would stop to eat, we'd have to get Little Monster out of her car seat and finish feeding her before leaving again. She is rear facing and I have a major fear of children eating in the car.
We got to Orlando Saturday evening around 7:30. The place was great! It was in a gated community called Emerald Island Resort and it was a big enough house for the whole clan. According to what I saw, it was 6 miles from Disney World. Going to bed that night was so hard - I was so excited for the next day!
We got up at 5:45am Orlando time to get ready. I dressed the kids in their matching Mickey and Minnie outfits and we were out the door at 6:35am. It took us 15 minutes from leaving our driveway to parking our car in the Magic Kingdom parking lot. We were outside the gates to the ferry boat/monorail by 7:00am. It was really chilly that morning! The kids had jackets and coats and hats on that day. It was really exciting when they opened the gates because everyone cheered. We headed over to the ferry boat, but once we were boarded they told us there was too much fog, so we all had to get on the monorail. Once we got over to Magic Kingdom and inside the park, we were ready to go! We rode several rides right away without any lines. Our first ride of the trip was The Haunted Mansion. This ride we were a little nervous about Tiny Dancer riding. She loves Ghostbusters, but I'm always afraid of something causing her nightmares, which she has a lot. We all decided to ride that one - all 5 of us were able to.
We brought two strollers: a simple umbrella stroller for Tiny Dancer and our bigger, nicer stroller which isn't too heavy and is easy to fold up for Little Monster. That one has storage underneath we were able to use plus a tray and cup holder. I used the Moby wrap for The Baby, which was absolutely amazing. I can't say enough good things about it. I would wrap him and we would get on the rides just like that.
That first morning, we rode The Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, It's a Small World, and Journey of the Little Mermaid (a new one!) all without any lines. We rode Dumbo with about a 15 minute wait and then did a little shopping before heading to the Baby Care Center to feed and change The Baby (who slept the whole time wrapped up). We ended up leaving around 2:00pm to head back to the house for a nap for the girls as they were about to crash. We went back to Magic Kingdom around 6:00pm and we rode Magic Carpets of Aladdin and Pirates of the Caribbean without any wait. We got FastPasses for Dad and Tiny Dancer to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Tiny Dancer's first roller coaster! She didn't like it! We watched the Main Street Electrical Parade and part of the Wishes Nighttime Spectacular, along with the fireworks, which were going off as we made our way out of the park with 3 sleeping kids. It was great!
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