Disney World: Day One

We woke in Gainesville, Florida with tremendous excitement as today we were on our way to Disney World!

There was literally no one on the road for awhile and we were beginning to think that there was a tornado or something and we were too caught up in the book to notice.

We checked into our room at the Disney World Animal Kingdom Lodge, Jamba House only to be more than slightly disappointed with where we were. Plus the room smelled like hot dogs. We were just going to suck it up, since we are in the most magical place on Earth after all, when a woman came by to pick up luggage that belonged to someone else that had been left in our room. She told us that we should really just call the front desk as the people before us didn't want to stay there either.

The Lodge!

View from first room.

So we checked into our real room and it was amazing! We had a Savannah Room, meaning we got to look at the animals from our little deck. We saw zebras and GIRAFFES and Watusi cattle and ostriches and lots of birds and other animals and it was great.

Not wanting to waste time, we went straight to Disney's Hollywood Studios (formally Disney's MGM Studios). One of the first things we saw was the Osbourne Family Light...show?... A large section of the park was covered in lights. It was pretty crazy so we just kept walking.

That's a lot of lights.

Where are we going Sarah??

Halley wore her Coke t-shirt for just this moment.

No visit is complete without a visit to the Muppet 3D show. So we did that first.

Next was a 70 minute wait for the new Toy Story ride. It was 70 minutes on the dot when we climbed into our car and zoomed off to defeat Emperor Zurg. We had toy canons that we had to shoot balls and darts from in order to gain points. Sarah kicked Halley's butt by an embarrassing amount.

At least the wait was in a room full of toys, plenty of things to take pictures of.

Honestly, there wasn't anything to do except take pictures and try to avoid being hit by the kids in front of and behind us.

Mr. Potato Head!

Ta-dah!

We've been there, and there, and there, and there...

We then had reservations for dinner at the 50's Prime Time Cafe. We thought we were having food at a sit-down place that played television shows from the 50's. That was only have true. It was a true 50's dining experience where we had few options and a snappy waiter who told us to sit up straight and eat our vegetables. He also sang S'Mores really loud so one of us had to try it.

There were Christmas trees at all the parks and hotels and they were all decorated differently.

Even though the park was open late this night, there wasn't anything open that we wanted to do so back to Jamba House where we decided at midnight that going to the pool would be a good idea, as it is open 24 hours. Um, best decision ever. No one was there and the pool is ginormous. The hot tub is also huge but it was actually too hot so we made due with the 80-degree pool.