The happiest place on earth!!!

Life has been a little been hectic around here lately, especially since we both realized that we only have 6.5 weeks left of our time in the states.  I cannot believe how quickly time is passing!!! From here on out, we will have guests coming to visit every week and a half.  While I am excited to see our friends and family, our company is only going to make time speed along even more quickly!!!

A few weeks ago was Joon's mid session break, and we took advantage of it to go to the happiest place on earth, Disneyworld!!! 

We started our day bright and early to catch a flight to Orlando on Saturday, October 17th.  Our flight was at 8:15am, we had to be at the airport at 7:15am.  It takes about 30 minutes by cab, so we left our apartment at 6:40am.  I woke up at 5am that day from anticipation, so to kill a bit of time, I decided to go to the gym. I was headed to the apartment gym when the POWER went out on the block, our apartment included!!! There was basic power: hallways, one elevator was working, the key fobs were not, and best of all, no power in our apartment. 

How on earth were we to get ready to catch our flight if the power was out?  Everytime we would set something down, it would get lost in the dark!!!We finally had to pull our suitcases into the hallway and prop the door open to get dressed, do our hair, brush our teeth, and put on makeup in the dimly lit halls!!! It was definitely the most stressful start to our day!!! Thankfully there wasn't really any other hickups, except for the fact that the roads on route to the airport were being closed as we drove by secret service.  All the roads by and within a 10 block radius of the vice-president's house were closed and blocked off, because he was supposedly heading out...common practice to shut down all the roads when the government officals need to travel!!! This did not delay us though, and it was smooth sailing all the way to the airport!!!

Upon landing in Orlando, we headed to our hotel, checked in, and scooted on to Downtown Disney, a part of the park that is home to the largest Disney Store in the world, the Cirque du Soleil show La Nouba, and restaurants and shopping.  We had lunch did a bit of wandering and headed on out to the Magic Kingdom.

Downtown Disney at night

Entrance to the Magic Kindom

Magic Kingdom Castle

The walls of the castle... each scene is tiny tiny tiles put together to make each intricate pticture... it was so beautiful!!!

One of the neatest shows ever!!! It was called Mickey's Philharmonic Orchestra, and is was really neat... similar to Fantasia but better because it was 3-D!!!

We went on rides and saw lots of cool exhibits... however, because we had a late start, we only got through half of the Magic Kingdom before the nightly parade and fireworks display...

The parade was awesome!!! And, each float was accompanied with the music from the Disney movie!!! It was one of my favorites!!!

The caslte at night... the lights would change every few minutes, it was Beautiful!!!

We stayed for the fireworks display, Tinkerbell's flight from the tallest tower to somewhere in the park, and Jiminiy Cricket hosting the evening of fun!!!

After the fireworks, everyone made a mad dash for the exit... In an attempt to escape the crowds, we ducked into a candy shop to have some ice cream and check out the incredible sweets and candy, disney style!!! 

Me with the biggest rice crispy square I have ever seen, in the shape of Mouse ears!!!

This was one loong day, as it started at 5am... we headed back to our hotel and crashed into bed... Next stop, Epcot centre!!!

xoxo

L&J