Day One - Heading Out

This trip to Disney World has been a year in the planning ....  mostly by Shawn! It will be quite the family adventure as Shawn's mom Penny and his son Brandon will be coming down from New York to meet us.

We got up at the ungodly hour of 3:00AM to be at the airport for a 6:00AM flight to Orlando via Salt Lake. An uneventful flight got us to Orlando about 3:00PM.  We took the Disney Express to our room at the Contemporary Resort Hotel.....finally arriving at 5:30. The rest of the family is staying at the Coronado Resort outside the park. So we split up for the night; we'll meet at the Magic Kingdom first thing in the morning.

(Note to remember: we left our luggage to be delivered by the Disney folks from the airport. Less hassle, but we didn't see our luggage again until almost 9:00PM. I wouldn't do it that way again).

After we got settled, we had a great steak dinner at a hotel restaurant called The Wave. We have a Disney Meal Plan so its fun not to pay any attention to the price of things! Returning to our room, which has a view of the Magic Kingdom, we watched great firework show from our balcony!

The weather is lousy - 50's, cloudy and breezy. Not Florida-like! Forecast doesn't look any better.

To bed early, Janet insists on an early start in the morning at Magic Kingdom.