Our first day in Disney World!!!

Day 1
We left home around 8pm, leaving of course, an hour later than we had planned on. The trip to Orlando was uneventful. Both girls slept the majority of the way which allowed me to sleep too. Poor Josh drove the whole night with just an hour nap.  Our room was at the back of All Star Music, so it took forever to get our bags to our room and get back to the bus. I think the walk to our room took longer everyday!
Upon arrival, we headed out to Epcot. It was our first park of the week, we were so excited! We immediately headed to Nemo. We had enough time to do the ride, Turtle Talk with Crush and play for a while before heading on to lunch at Le Cellier. I wasn’t as excited for this meal, last trip I was unimpressed with it. We had bad service and the food was way to salty. This year, the food was just ok. It isn’t a place we will eat at again. However, our server was fabulous! Very attentive without being overbearing.
After lunch we went to Soarin. Kira was finally tall enough to ride it! She loved it and got to ride twice in a row thanks to the baby swap pass.  Next we rode living with the land, it was a bit over the top on the environmental side, but seeing the hydroponics was really cool. When we left there, we headed over to figment. It was our first time riding this one, I don’t think its very popular since there was NO ONE there. It wasn’t as bad as the lack of people suggested. It was cute and the play area after was a blast for Kira.
Up next was meeting some of the characters. Chip and Dale had almost no line! Aurora stole the show with them and every other character. They all adored her. And she in turn adored them. We also saw the fab five with only a five minute wait. They all spent extra time with us and I think it was because Rora was so darn adorable. She even danced with Goofy!
Our next order of business sent us over to club cool. We grabbed the camera and gave both girls a taste of the Beverly, just waiting to capture their reactions….it was such a letdown! Neither one puckered, gagged, or even stopped drinking it. It was so bizarre! Of course we tried every flavor, my favorite being the watermelon soda from China. It’s delicious! One year I think I may just take an empty water bottle and fill it up! Yummy!
We then rode Spaceship Earth and headed over to Test Track. Kira was tall enough and we thought she would enjoy it…we were wrong! I think it may be because of our car accident last Sept. that she knows how scary they can be, anyways, while waiting in line they show a video of a test crash. It scared the bajeebies out of her! She cried until we were away from it.(and no, we didn’t make her ride it.) Unfortunately it scared her so much that she refused to try other rides, even splash mountain which is so mild. Oh well, maybe next year…
Much to the relief of Akira, we left the park and headed over to dinner at Narcoossee’s. The Grand Floridian hotel is my dream hotel. It’s like stepping back in time. They had a piano player playing a grand piano as we arrived and as we left, they had a full band playing. *sigh* It was heaven! Dinner was delicious! My only peeve was that they didn’t have real butter. They give you an entire lobster, but no real butter!?! It just doesn’t make sense. Although they did put sea salt on the butter substitute that comes with the bread and that was delicious, it saved my lobster!
By the end of dinner we were all ready for bed. We got our desserts to go and headed back to our hotel to bed. Poor Josh had been up almost 36 hours!
It was a fabulous way to start our vacation!