Walt Disney World

As many of you already know, Whitney and I took a vacation to Walt Disney World! Since my show Singin in the Rain ended in Jupiter, FL. We rented a car and drove 2.5 hours to Orlando on Sunday evening Jan. 27th. We found a groupon online for a resort and spent 4 nights there. It offered free shuttle service to and from each of the parks! We were fortunate enough to connect with some friends who work in the parks to give us free comp tickets! It saved us so much money. We got to go to 6 different parks for FREE. Thank you LORD!!!

We started our adventure with Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure!

 Harry Potter world we were sooo excited about it because we had heard so many wonderful things. It truly is magical! The simulation ride was incredible!

 The butter beer = superb! Now, for people who don't know Harry Potter. This is not an alcoholic beverage. It tastes like gingerbread cream soda with butterscotch foam. Our sweet tooth was completely satisfied!

The Hulk is always so terrifying because it starts by bringing your up higher and then shoots you from 0 to 60. 

RECAP OF MONDAY RIDES

Harry Potter Forbidden Journey - so amazing

Harry Potter Wiffenpuff - so stupid

Spider-Man 3D ride - always great

Hulk - great

The Mummy Revenge - SHOCKING, soo fun

Twister - meh

Despicable Me - cute

Shrek - stupid

The Rock It Roller Coaster - gave us headaches, but was cool cause you could pick your own music

River Adventure Jurassic Park - pretty lame but still fun

Harry Potter Forbidden Journey - the best!

TUESDAY

HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS and MAGIC KINGDOM

Our friend Kaylin works in Animal Kingdom, so she picked up on Tuesday morning and scanned us in at Hollywood Studios and told we had to check out the Toy Story ride. 

 This ride was a blast! It's a 3D ride where you compete with the person who is sitting next to you on shooting these characters.. it's really hard to explain but it's sooo entertaining!

 One of the best rides - Tower of Terror.

We were getting so lucky. We never waited for more than 30 minutes for any ride. The weather was perfect our whole vacation. Sooo tremendously thankful!

MAGIC KINGDOM

Notice the crane? Yeah, we were like... umm... are you kidding? HAHAH.

The first thing we did in Magic Kingdom, was going to the Fantasy Land. They have this restaurant called Be Our Guest and it was so beautiful and the food was fantastic!

Haha.. so this Mermaid experience... every second we were just finding the next best ride to go on, so we saw this line for this Ariel ride... we waited for about 15 minutes and then we got around the corner and there is Ariel... and a photographer... we were sooo embarrassed! We thought it was an actual ride. So Whitney sat next to her and I awkwardly took their pic. HAHA.

New panoramic view from Whit's 4S. Notice they moved the crane!

It's just so breathtaking at night with all the lights!

RECAP FOR TUESDAY RIDES
Hollywood Studios

Toy Story - so fun

Tower of Terror - so terrifying

Little Mermaid Show - TERRIBLE

Beauty and the Beast Show - better than Little Mermaid but still kind of a struggle

Rockin Roller Coaster - blacklight... so fun

Magic Kingdom

Ate lunch at Be Our Guest - fantabulous

Rode Ariel's under the sea - dumb

Met Ariel at Ariel's grotto - terrible, haha... because we didn't know it wasn't a ride

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad rollercoaster - fun

Pirates of the Caribbean - lame but very impressive

Walked thru Robinson tree house - fun

Space Mountain - duh... always the best

People Mover - relax and sit time

Train around park - reminded me of my childhood at Adventureland:)

WEDNESDAY

ANIMAL KINGDOM and EPCOT

 First thing on our list was to see our friend Kaylin in The Festival of the Lion King.

Finding Nemo - absolutely worthy to be on Broadway!!

The African Safari was stellar!

One of our favorite rides was Mt. Everest. It was so unexpected - we had rode it twice in a row!

EPCOT

We only spent about 2.5 hours at Epcot but it's amazing how many different Countries they have represented. It was pretty windy this night. We ate our dinner in Mexico. Empanadas and tacos!

 We finished our 2nd Honeymoon with a big BANG with the Firework show called Illuminations!

RECAP FOR WEDNESDAY RIDES

Animal Kingdom 

Safari - COOL

Lion King show - awesome

Mt. Everest twice - so incredible

Finding Nemo show - Broadway!

BBQ lunch - yummy

Dino ride - pretty cool 

Primeval whirl - cute

Epcot

Soarin - pretty impressive

Test Track - kinda lame

Illuminations Show - awesome

I think you could say we had an enjoyable time in Orlando. This was the entrance to our resort. Pretty fancy!