Disneyworld: We Have Arrived

Hello all! We successfully made it to Florida. On Saturday night, we drove to Seattle to stay with my aunt and uncle, and then we left their house for the airport at about 3:30am Sunday. We flew out early, and had an hour layover in San Diego, but we made it to Orlando by about 5:30pm (Eastern Time). We made it to our hotel by about seven. Our hotel (a Disney resort) is HUGE. One one end is the main lobby, restaurants, and conference center (where my mom is spending a lot of her time). When you walk out the back doors of the lobby building, you find yourself on a path leading around a lake. All around the lake are smaller buildings with the actual rooms. Our room is on the exact opposite side of the place from the conference center, and it's about a ten minute walk to the main building (and food).

The pool. To the far right, you an see the end of the waterslide. To the left (off camera) is a bar and seatting area, as well as a children's play area. Behind me are the hot tub and volleyball court. This is about five minutes from our room, between it and the lobby.

Yesterday morning, we got up and went to play miniature golf. This is Disney of course, so it was Fantasia miniature golf. With our theme park tickets, we got to do this for free.

Isabelle playing minigolf.

Every part of the course was from the Fantasia movie. This is Mt. Olympus.

In the afternoon, Mom had the first session of her conference, and Isabelle and I hung out at the pool. In the evening, we took the bus to "Downtown Disney," a huge shopping and enertainment district, and ate dessert at an Irish Pub. They had a short Irish Dance program, which was fun to watch, since we were missing class that night. :)

This is outside the lego store. The entire thing behind us is made of Legos.

Here's a better view of the Lego sculpture thing (what do you call that?)

I didn't get any very good pictures of the dancing, but this guy was quite good.

Despite the very limited space, they did some soft shoe as well as hard.

They even tried to teach some little kids how to treble! 

This morning, mom is in a meeting, and we're hanging out in our room, but this afternoon, maybe around 3ish, we'll head over to the parks for the first time.