Our Anniversary Disney Trip

Well Steve and I had an awesome time on our trip to Disney. We were gone for 3 nights (4 days) and we were able to fit in all of our favorite things and then some!! We flew in on Sunday morning and went to our hotel to check in and then went to the Magic Kingdom. We stayed there for a few hours then went back to check out our room (it wasn't ready yet when we first arrived). We got an awesome room on the top floor with a view of the marina. It is so beautiful there. The hotel is just beautiful, the room was very spacious and gorgeous inside and the landscaping outside was just breathtaking. When you came out of our building you could see the castle. It was just so cool!! After we saw the room, we went back to the Magic Kingdom and stayed until 11:30pm. We rode everything twice!

The next morning we went to EPCOT and rode all of our favorites there. We had lunch at our favorite restaurant Le Cellier. Because this year is our 10th year of marriage, we were kind of celebrating that while on the trip and they brought us our creme brulee all decorated with happy anniversary on it. That was so nice!! After lunch we took the boat from EPCOT to the Disney Studios. That was a really fun ride. It stops at the Yacht and Beach Club and the Boardwalk hotels first and it was neat to get to see them and then it goes to the studios. We'll definitely take advantage of that boat ride in the future. We rode rides for a few hours and then went back to the hotel. We swam and walked along the beach at the hotel. It was a nice quiet evening!

Tuesday was our tour day. We had booked a backstage tour at the Magic Kingdom. We chose to have the 8:30 tour which was 30 minutes before the park opened, so we got to come in and see the park empty. It was so cool to see it empty. We took tons of pictures!! The tour was just awesome too. We walked through all of the lands except two. We went backstage in two different areas, one behind Splash Mountain and the other behind Main Street. We also got to go down and see the Utillidoors which are the network of hallways and rooms that run underneath the Magic Kingdom. All of it was just so much fun. I would definitely recommend that tour, but not with little kids, it might ruin some of the "magic" for them!!

After our tour, we went back to our hotel and took a little mouseboat out for a tour around the Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake. We were out for 90 minutes and just zipped around looking at all the different hotels, the Magic Kingdom and dodged the big ferries! It was really reasonably priced and it was something we had never done before and now we want to do with the kids!!

That evening was our last evening and we spent it traipsing around the world showcase at EPCOT. We ate food from several different countries, watched shows, rode rides and just had a really nice night.

Wednesday morning we went to Animal Kingdom and were able to do all of our favorites before having to leave. We did the Kilimanjaro Safari, Expedition Everest (twice, the line was only 5 minutes!!), Kali River Rapids and the Primeval Whirl. We got back to the hotel with a little time left for eating lunch and then we rode to the airport.

It really was a wonderful trip and we had a lot of fun, but we kept saying to each other how much the kids would've loved this and that. We missed them!! It'll probably be at least another 10 years before we do something like that again, but it was great. So here's a few photos from the trip:


The view right outside our building at the Grand Floridian. The castle is there, but kind of hard to see in this picture.

This was in our room on the second night. A bottle of Champagne and a card from "the gang" to celebrate our anniversary!!

Our desert at Le Cellier. It was delicious AND beautiful!!

We saw Lotso from Toy Story 3. I have a great picture of us with him, but my husband does not want his picture posted, so you get this one!! He was very soft and cuddly!!

Our building at the hotel. We had one of the rooms at the top with a triangular roof. It was a beautiful room.

Our hotel and it's beach at sunset!

This was taken on tour day. It's so cool to see the park empty!

Me and an empty park!!

Roy, Minnie and I before the park opened!

Riding on the mouseboat!!

Our hotel from the mouseboat. This is the marina that is seen from our balcony.

My hand in the Seven Seas Lagoon during our mouseboat ride!!

We ended our evening on Tuesday by watching our favorite show, Lost!!