What a day! So many things happened, before lunch time. The day started off on a bad note, especially for Maddie. She woke up at 2 am with a fever and not able to breathe properly. Matt and Erin gave her some medication and her fever came down and then there was the great debate. Do we go? Do we not go? Do Matt and Erin stay with the girls at home and Me and Melody and Rylynn just go? Do we all go but drive separately? But the tickets were already bought and non-refundable and non-transferable. Would they let us change the day? But what other day would we go? These are just a few of the many hard questions we had to face. After MUCH deliberation we decided to all go together in the same car. 
The didn't know what to say. They two older ones just looked at everything and soaked it all in, while Rylynn was just obsessed with the balloons. We made our way down Main St and took in all the scents and sights as we progressed towards Cinderella's Castle. 
When we got to the castle the girls oohed and awed at its magnificence. 
The girls got some frozen lemonade and waited for the next show to start in front of the castle. 
Price is not something you can be concerned about when you're at Disney. You will go crazy if you worry about all the money your spending on food, and trinkets, and balloons. You just have to expect to spend a lot of money and then your day will go a lot better. 
That's when Erin called us to let us know that they were leaving :/ it was a big disappointment that they couldn't stay and spend the day with us, but it's not fun having sick children at a hot amusement park all day, so we definitely understood. They explained how Disney had given them tickets to come back another day of their choosing, which was pretty awesome, and how Matt would drive the 2 hours back later that night to pick us up, since we all drove in the same car. Again, it would have been awesome if all three girls could've experienced the most magical place on earth together, but God had other plans in mind. 
One ride/attraction that we really love is the Enchanted Story Time with Belle. Basically, the kids get to act out the beauty and the beast story with Belle. It's a great chance for the kids to meet a princess and interact with her too :) 
But I think Rylynn's favorite people to meet was Anna and Elsa. She just kept saying "Selsa! Selsa!" 
But, overall, she did very well for a two year old. 
It started off pretty good. We made it the whole way from the beach house to Aunt Lisa's house with only one hiccup. We had to use a toll road to get to Lisa's house. No big deal. We're from PA and used to the Turnpike. We pulled up to the toll booth and it read "$0.50 exact change needed". Well, we looked in the change storage area... One dime. Not good. We rummaged through every cubby and under every seat and only came up with a total of 35 cents. We didn't know what we were going to do. With apparent desperation on our faces, someone in the EZ pass lane asked if we needed help. We told them our predicament, and they generously gave us a quarter. Phew! Thank you Lord for that person!!
My Aunt Lisa lives in Orlando and her husband, Doug, has worked at Disney for the last 30 years or so. One of the perks of working at Disney is getting free tickets to the parks. They hooked us up and got us two free tickets, which is just amazing. Basically they saved us 220 dollars! That helps. A lot.
After leaving her house we only had another thirty minutes of driving until Walt Disney World!! What could go wrong? Well, I'll tell ya... We had stopped at a Bravo Supermarket to grab some breakfast items and Jordyn started complaining that she was going to throw up. But wait, wasn't Maddie the sick one? But sure enough, out came almost a whole juice box worth of Apple Juice onto her lap :/ Matt and Erin sprang into action and got her cleaned up and she said she felt better. So then it was off to Walmart to buy new clothes. While the moms went shopping for new clothes the men and kids went and got some Chic-Fil-A for breakfast. Erin got Jordyn dressed in her new Frozen shirt and we were off again.
We got to the park around 10:00 and and immediately the kids were wowed!
The crowd began to gather to watch the show as the temperature grew higher and higher and we all got more and more uncomfortable. FINALLY, the show started. And the girls were really excited. First came out Mickey Mouse and his friends, then some princesses, and Peter Pan and Captain Hook and they all sang and danced together. It was a fun show to watch, but you could tell something wasn't quite right with Jordyn and Maddie.
By now it was our time to go see Tinkerbell in the Theatre. So we headed back to where we had just come from in the scorching heat and found our way into the theatre. It was 10 minutes until we could use our FastPass so we were just chilling when all of the sudden Jordyn started vomiting :/ Matt rushed and told an employee what happened and went to go get paper towels. Meanwhile, there was a gentleman nearby who saw what happened and immediately grabbed some wipes out of his bag and gave them to Erin. Matt came out of the bathroom with some paper towels so I headed towards where he had just came from. I found the bathroom and got some more paper towels, but by the time I had come back they were unnecessary. The Disney employees had formed a circle of protection around the accident area and they were pouring some floor dry on the throw up and told Matt to not worry about. All this while another Disney employee was talking to Princess Jordyn, making sure she was okay and letting her pick out a free pin. I felt so bad for Jordyn, but Disney had definitely stepped up and made the situation a lot better.
Now we were faced with more decisions. After just sitting down and taking a little break, Erin decided she and Jordyn should go to the First Aid center for a while to see what's going on. Me, Melody, Matt and Madde decided to go on without them and see Tinkerbell.
Tinkerbell was great. We FastPassed it so we only waited about 3 minutes. The moment we walked into the room Tink was ecstatic to see us, like she had been waiting for us all day! Rylynn and Maddie had a great time meeting and interacting with her :)
After that, Matt and Maddie went to the first aid center to join Erin and Jordyn while me and Melody and Rylynn continued on.
We just walked around the park as Rylynn took in everything from her stroller. We just tried to take it easy, knowing that it would be a very long day. We had our lunch at the Pecos Bill Tavern and had some overpriced bacon cheeseburgers.
We made our way to the choo choo and rode that around the whole Magic Kingdom. Rylynn loves trains so she was having a blast.
After that the day pretty much consisted of more princesses
, parades, eating, drinking
(Pic: LeFou's Brew- a frozen apple juice and cream soda drink), sweating, crying, laughing, and a little napping.
Rylynn was started to get pretty irritable near the end of the day. This was pretty expected since she only had about a 1 hr nap in her stroller.
Around 7:45 pm we went to Tony's to have some Lady and the Tramp themed Italian food. But, by the time we got there they were only taking reservations. That was another disappointment and we were faced with another question. Where do we eat now? We were getting picked up at 9:30 pm at the transportation center so we didn't have a whole lot of time to find another place to eat, shop, and get to the pickup place on time. Especially now that people were lining along the sidewalks and employees were roping off areas where the nigh time parade was going to go. We were crunches for time and dead from walking all day. We were trying to decide what to do when the lady at Tony's suggested just taking the monorail to a nearby resort and eating there.
So we did some shopping and headed to the monorail to ride to the contemporary to have dinner. The monorail may have been Rylynn's favorite ride. Or the Carousel.
Her least favorite was probably It's A Small World. She didn't even wait to fall asleep when she was on the actual ride; she fell asleep in the line.
After dinner in the contemporary we headed to the transportation center, and after more walking and A LOT of confusion, we finally found my dad ( who came to pick us up instead of Matt). It was so nice of him to come pick us and and we were very grateful for taking 5 hours out of his day to come get us.
We talked about all we had done that day while Rylynn fell asleep right away. Wait. That sounded too convenient. Oh. Right. Rylynn complained and cried and yelled and refused to fall asleep the entire 2 hour drive back. She was just so tired, so we can understand that.
We finally got home around 11:45 pm and hung out with my parents and Mollie for a little and then off to bed. After 3 ibuprofen and 15 minutes, I was out.
Thoughts on the day- 2 years old is just a little too little for Disney. It was nice because she was free, but it made a long day longer for us. BUT, It was a great day overall. We had a lot of fun, made a lot of memories, and Rylynn got to see a balloon!!!! So exciting!! Disney is a lot different with kid(s), but good in a different way. We had a great time and we will definitely be back, sooner rather than later hopefully :)
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