This adventure began nearly a year ago. About a week or so after we returned from our last Florida vacation Ken and I decided that this Christmas would be the perfect Christmas for a big Disney surprise. Will is almost seven and Nate just turned 5, last March we thought those would be the prefect ages for Disney. We immediately began researching and we hatched a plan. Will has been obsessed with the Disney ships since he was 2 years old so we knew a cruise had to be part of the plan. Then Ken's Mom Jane mentioned that she would like to take the boys to Disney, the other half of our plan was born. We would spend 4 days at the Disney Parks followed by a 5 night cruise on the Disney Dream. Ken and I plotted our adventure all year. We revealed our grand plan to the boys Christmas morning. They each had a giant present waiting for them at the back of the tree. When they opened them, Will's initial response was, "it's a giant thingamajig!" What he had opened was a piece of carry on luggage. Inside the bag were clues to our destinations, mickey mouse ears, a model air plane, a Disney stuffy and a sign about the cruise. With a little help Will put the pieces together and when I revealed the whole plan we got that great Disney moment reaction. Nate on the other hand remained basically oblivious to what was going on. It took him the whole day to process the information. It wasn't until I was tucking him in Christmas night that he said to me, while tightly clutching his Goofy, "Mommy, I can't wait to go on the Disney Dreams!"
The following few days passed quickly in a blurr of preparation. Finally, December 29th arrived, Ken awoke first at 6:00am, he couldn't contain himself, he was up and ready to get the day underway. The boys followed and I stayed in bed until the last moment knowing that it would be a very long day. The first leg of the trip was a 4 hour drive to Detroit. Thankfully, all our travel plans fell into place and we had a mostly stress free trip through 3 air ports! Our first flight was Will and Nate's first time on a plane. Excitement and nerves were high as we taxied down the run way. Will had been so excited to fly, but, his first comment to me once we reached cruising altitude was, "we shouldn't be so high up." Over time, his comfort level grew and he enjoyed looking out at the towns and lights below us. We landed in Atlanta, had a very quick supper and boarded flight number 2. This was another very smooth flight and we landed in the land of sun and palm trees at about 10:30 pm. The final stretch of our journey was an hour and a half car ride from the Melbourne air port to our rented home in Kissimee. Luckily, the boys had slept through most of the second flight and were more then happy to fall directly back to sleep as soon as we were in the car. Jane and Eric (Ken's Brother) greeted us at about 12:30 and after a much needed glass of wine we were all off to bed for what promised to be a very busy day. December 30th is the day we are headed to the Magic Kingdom!
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