First week down, so many more to go. What a week it has been. Tuesday brought me to Tallahassee for a deposition. Thursday was a surprise hearing in Hollywood, which I dragged the kids along with me for the 8 hour round trip drive. Of course I couldn't call off our Orlando trip, after Preschooler couldn't stop talking about it at school!
Without ado, our menu for the week was:
Sunday: corn dogs, noodles, and veggies
Monday: leftovers (pork, mashed potato, and veggies)
Tuesday: leftovers (chicken thighs, pasta salad, and veggies)
Wednesday: fastfood as I was at work late
Thursday: cheese, crackers, and grapes in the car
Friday: pigs in a blanket, macaroni and cheese, veggies
Saturday: on the way home from Disney had frosty's!
We went to the Frozen Summer Fun at Hollywood Studios. We actually had a pretty good time and went fairly smoothly for my first solo Disney adventure. I think the key for us was not over scheduling, which worked out perfectly. Here's what we did:
(We rolled in around 9:00, after walking up to the gate, bag check, and activating our passes:)
9:45: met Woody and Buzz at the meet and greet station
10:30: Frozen welcome parade. We stood on the left side of the stage, which worked perfectly for viewing Christoph and the guys with the axes (our favorites). After we had a potty break.
11:30: Disney Junior show (we had fastpasses). Highly recommend for the 2-5 year old crowd.
We had lunch after the Disney Junior show; lunch thay we brought with us. If we had to buy lunch, I don't think we would have time before our fastpasses for the Frozen sing along. We had chicken nuggets, grapes, wheat thins, and I bought juice bottles with characters on them before the trip. (Other snacks we had were go guts that I froze beforehand and we're nicely thawed, and Rice Krispy treats I made the night before.)
12:30: Frozen sing along (we had fastpasses). Real actors, cute show, but Toddler got a little antsy. Insert our next potty break following the show.
1:10-2:10 fastpasses for Toy Story Mania
1:45: we headed over to the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play area. This was our mistake. Toddler wanted to go on the rope climbing thing, we ended up exiting after 10 minutes in full meltdown mode.
2:30: Olaf summer show. Cute little dance party. People didn't start waiting or standing around until 5-10 minutes beforehand, so this was perfect. Toddler finally calmed down, and we snacked for a little bit under the trees waiting for the show to start.
We then walked around the lake to check out the dinosaur, did our last potty call, and headed off.
We left the park around 3:00.
Clearly, if you aren't alone with a pre-schooler and toddler you can do this much faster. But, having kids has madde me manage my time expectations a little more closely.
I think it's important to note, we did not spend any money at Disney on this trip (besides the passes we already had). Although, I was very close to caving to get Toddler a stuffed Mikey Mouse and Preschooler a gun that shoots bubbles. However, noted for the Christmas list!
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