Kelson has been on a few plane rides, although she doesn’t remember it, nor will she remember this one, but she was excited about riding in a plane. She sees them flying over our house all the time, so to see one up close was very cool for her. When we were in the plan she was like Mommy look- a plane- I said yes baby- we are in one of those right now. She was an ANGEL on the plane ride from Hsv-Atlanta, Atlanta- Orlando. She loved the taking off and landing parts. I was a little worried about that part, but she loved it. We couldn’t wait to get to Orlando and see all the Disney signs, etc. Keri Burry and Benjamin came and picked us up- she had the DVD player and car seat all ready to go for us- what a girl. We sent our luggage ahead of time with Bob and Lucy in our car so we didn’t have much to carry with us. That worked out nicely. We got to see Keri’s beautiful rental house and eat a delicious meal she prepared for us. It was fun to watch Kelson interact with other kids- I love that she is older now that she can be a little more independent and play with the other kids. She LOVES kids too. Since we haven’t enrolled her in daycare, I was skeptical on her interaction with other children, but she has done VERY WELL. She shares wonderfully and doesn’t mind another child to be around. We went in the pool and let me tell you- she is the BRAVEST 2 year old I know. She will jump right in and uses Gigi’s words big arms, kick kick, big arms..... we still put her floaties on her, but she is not afraid of the water. I heard I was the same way. Guess I know where she gets it. Anyways we had a fabulous visit with Keri and her boys. Only bad thing- Kelson caught Nicholas’ cold while we were there :(
The next morning we hauled all of our stuff to the Contemporary to check in. It was a very nice hotel and since our room wasn’t ready, we had some time to kill, so we decided to hit Downtown Disney. That was already on the list of things to do. Mickey was supposed to text me when our room was ready, but he didn’t call- what the heck. Typical male mouse - lol! Anyways, so we decided to go eat at the TREX restaurant.
Jason is a big dinosaur fan and Kelson is pretty enthralled with them as well, so we figured it would be a great place to cool off and grab some grub. It’s a sister restaurant of “The Rainforest Café”- which we are a big fan of, so I knew we would like it. It was decorated very cool and had animatronics all over. Kelson was scared of some of it, but overall really loved the atmosphere. Anyways, we got some pretty cool pics from there and had some really yummy food. It was just a start to our fun trip. After eating we went to a couple of the Disney stores- even hitting the Christmas store. Kelson rode the carousal with her Bobba. That’s one of her favorite things. After a while, we were all pretty worn out and Kelson had fallen asleep, so we headed back to the hotel. It was a very nice place and our view of Cinderella’s castle was unbelievable. After we returned, it was time to hit the pool. Another one of Kelson’s favorite things to do. They had a great kiddie pool area, so she played in there for a while. Now I have to tell you this, so you’ll understand the next part. But Kelson gets LOTS of compliments from strangers on how adorable and smart she is, so when a lady stopped me and asked if she was mine, as I grinned and said Yes, she said well she just had a bowel movement in the kiddie area- hahaha. OMG- I jumped up and ran over to her- she was sitting on one of the water jets and poop was about to blow everywhere. She did have a swimmy diaper on, but it doesn’t hold much. So I grabbed her up and that was our cue to leave. Ha-ha-poor thing. She wasn’t ready to leave nor did she understand why we were leaving. I was somewhat embarrassed, but I think we got out of there quick enough for anyone to notice. The bad thing was that pool area is recycled water... EEEEWWW! Needless to say, we weren’t going back to that pool. We got Kelson all cleaned up and got a chance to watch the fireworks show from the Magix Kingdom from our balcony. Kelson really enjoyed that and kept saying “Boom Boom”. Misc Pics from the First Day
After the fireworks, we headed downstairs to the “Chef Mickey” dinner. Even though I had made reservations 90+ days out, we still had to wait an additional 30 min to get in. It was nuts. But in the time being we had a cocktail at the bar and waited on mom and dad and the Donald family to arrive. It was nice catching up with them. By this time we were all starving and ready to get in. I had heard lots of wonderful things about Chef Mickey, but I have to say that I wasn’t very pleased. It was VERY chaotic (I guess being the last ones, they just threw out the food, and all the characters were coming back to back so the food got cold). The kids really enjoyed them, but again- it was just a little too chaotic and not worth the $45/pp. Oh well- some like it, some don’t. After dinner we all went our separate ways to get a good night sleep before hitting Epcot in the morning. We were all pretty exhausted. Kelson had a runny nose and a slight fever, but was in good spirits.
Chef Mickey Pics
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