Disney World, Florida

After leaving Slo-vannah behind we headed south down the interstate for 5hours! It was a slow and monotonous journey but we finally made it to Disney World. A few wrong turns and we arrived at The Wilderness Lodge Resort where our cabin was ready for us. Each hotel/resort is a mini town in itself. The place is HUMONGOUS!!! After we checked out the cabin we headed to the marina to get the ferry to the Magic Kingdom. It was late afternoon but we were told we shouldn't miss the parade and fireworks over Cinderella's castle. And it was fantastic. It's just like in all the pictures. Everyone was so nice and friendly, weather perfect and I was super excited. We had some dinner then managed to stick a ride in the Haunted House in before the parade. I had been pre warned by Colin that he gets frightened easily but luckily it wasn't too scary for him. As the sunset the parade started and all of Disney's characters came out to play! I loved seeing Ariel, Poseidon, Chip N Dale, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Daffy and many more. What made it even better is that there were kids everywhere and they were so excited too. The atmosphere was fantastic. After the parade passed by we walked over to Cinderella's castle and took a seat on the concrete directly in front and on the dot of 9pm Tinkerbell sailed from the top window down! It was incredible, she must have been a couple hundred feet up in the air and going down a zip line in the dark! Then the fireworks started, and breath taking is the only word. They were in time with the music and there were so many of them! It went for a good 20mins before we then had to head off back to the campsite for the night.

Colin's 32nd Birthday. We were struggling with washing at the time so Colin decided to wear the t-shirt I got him for his birthday. Many comments were received over it.

We were up at 7am and were down at the mess hall for brekkie. $10 for all you can eat and the selection was unbelievable. So much to choose from you didn't know where to begin and our server was so bright and bubbly for such and early start we thought there might have been something in the water. After filling up we were off to the Animal Kingdom to start. What an adventure! We went on the safari park ride and saw about 10 different types of animals which usually are found in Africa. Then it was on the water ride where we got soaked totally and had to go around for the rest of the morning nice and wet. We headed up Everest on one of the newer rides in the park and it was so much fun. I heard for the first time Colin screaming like a little girl and it was pretty funny! We stopped off in Dino Land and went back to prehistoric times to rescue a dinosaur then it was time to leave the Animal Kingdom and head to the next park. On the way out I managed to get my picture with Timon!!!

Epcot was the next port of call and sadly a bit disappointing. We though a specific ride was there but got our parks mixed up. The boys went on a fast car track thing, I decided against as we had just had lunch and didn't want to have to experience it twice. There was much more to see and do in Epcot but as we were quite time restricted we made the decision to head to Disney Studio's.

Disney's Studio's was great, the main street was so bright & colourful. They were having a parade as well during the afternoon so we headed over to the Star Wars attraction and went on that ride. It was fun and I'm sure if you are a huge Star Wars fan you will love it. Next it was over to the serious ride......Aerosmith's Rock n Roller Coaster. This is the ultimate ride!!! If you want a shot of adrenaline this is the ride for you. By far my favourite ride ever. It was so scary you should have heard Colin! loved it, 2 thumbs way up! There was another ride which was an elevator which went up and down at random but I had just had an icecream and didn't think it would stay down so we all passed on that ride.

Last park to visit was The Magic Kingdom again. We headed over to the legendary Space Mountain ride in Future Land. It was quite funny to see this area as back in it's hey day it must have looked super high tech! Now it is just amusing. Space mountain was a great ride because Colin was in the front car by himself and all I could hear where girly yelp and squeals coming from him during the ride. I couldn't stop laughing!

Then we went to Frontier Land and did another roller coaster which was good and ofcourse we did Splash Mountain last. It was a lovely log ride where you go along watching the story being played out of Brier Rabbit. Colin was mentally scaring himself already and found the cute little bunnies sinister and when the time came to go down the fall, he had to grab hold of my arm!! Soooo funny.

So after 10 hours of fun we were exhausted and headed back to the homestead for an all you can eat dinner. As it was Colin's birthday the staff brought out a piece of cake with a candle and the whole dining room sang Happy Birthday to him. Very unexpected but lovely. Then it was off to bed for a well deserved rest.

Next morning we were up and packed and ready to hit Miami and see Sabine! The cd that Mila's got me for my birthday - The Top Gun Soundtrack - came out and was played full volume! We were cruising the interstate in style!

I would recommend Disney World to everyone, young or old. We were so lucky that it was slow season as the most we had to wait was 10mins for a ride so got to do 4 parks in one day. People say you need a day per park. I would hate to see it in peak season.