The happiest place on earth is also the most tiring!

Well, we survived a week long trip in Disney World and Florida, but I think we will need a vacation to recover from it :) It was so much fun, but we are all exhausted!
We had been talking about going to Disney World for almost a year so I think when we told them it was finally time to go I think they weren't quite sure it was actually happening.  Once they realized it was though, they were so excited and couldn't wait.
We had a very long traveling day going there and coming back. When we left, we woke up at 3:30am to get ready to go and then headed to the airport about 4 in order to catch our flight at 625am.  The kids were pretty awake though and really excited we were finally going.  We had to fly from PDX to Newark NJ which was a pretty long flight.  The kids fell asleep though which was nice, after all they had been up before the crack of dawn.

The cool thing though was we got to see NYC, the empire state building and the statue of liberty as we flew into the airport.   We had a 3 hour layover there which was a nice little break from flying and then we hopped on a short flight to Orlando.

 We had to drive about 45 min to get to the hotel.  We stayed at the Holiday Inn vacations at Orange lake Resort.  It was really nice.  There was a mini kitchen so we could make food instead of eating out all the time.  Our room looked over the pool which was so pretty and really nice.  We had to share a room, but at least the kids had their own bed :)
We got in last out of everyone in the family, so it was pretty much time for bed when we got there.  It was so nice to see everyone though.  The kids were so excited to see Grandma and Grandpa and Aunts and Uncles, but all the cousins were already asleep so that had to wait for another day.
It was a long day of traveling, but we are so happy to be in Orlando with all my family and were so excited to go to Disney World.
I think I will do a different post for each day we do that way I am not trying to cram it all at once, Day one was pretty uneventful, just traveling, but definitely full of anticipation and excitement for what awaited us once we arrived.