The trip to Disneyland is about four hours and you stay in the same time zone. The trip to Disney World is much longer and you lose three hours as you cross the continent. To top things off we lost an extra hour the day before to Day Light Savings. Our day was intended to start at around 3:30a but instead Carter called out to us around 2:15a indicating he was tired of waiting and wanted to wake up. I fell back asleep but I think Kerry stayed up till her alarm went off. We were all packed so we were able to get out the door around 4:00a. Groggy but excited.
After a two hour drive we arrived in Seattle where we parked our car and hopped on the shuttle to the airport. This is where our first travel mistake happened when I left my phone in the car. We had some time to spare so I took the shuttle back, grabbed it and then met up with Kerry and the kids at the airport. Our second destination was Milwaukee. Can't say much about it since our lay over was only about an hour. We were worried that it was in snow country because any delays and we would miss our next flight.
Things worked out nicely however and we were in the air and on our way to Orlando. We flew Southwest the whole way which was a new experience because you don't have assigned seats. You board in groups based on when you checked in or in our case because Kerry paid an extra $10 per ticket to be in the first group. This worked out very well for our second flight because the plane was only half full. Carter and I took one row of three and Kerry and Callie took another row of three. Very nice having the extra room.
We arrived in our hotel to check in around 10:30p local time which was only 6:30p pre-daylight savings time on the west coast. (It's been very confusing trying to figure out what time it is.) Check in was somewhat slow but Carter, Callie and I passed the time by looking for Hidden Mickey's. Disney resorts tend to have the big eared mouse hidden in the architecture. Carter was the first to find one hidden in the doodles on one of the chairs. The hotel is called Art of Animation and there are doodles everywhere.
The hotel was one of the cheapest of the Disney hotels but it's only two years old so it's still very nice. The main issue with going with cheapest is distance. We're in the farthest resort, in the farthest building, in one of the farthest rooms from the front desk. It's probably a 1/2 km walk to our Arial building which is well marked with a 25 foot tall statue of her. Everything is clean and we're right near the pool so nothing else to complain about. We tried to go to sleep right away but took a while with the time change. We need to get up early tomorrow for our first day at the Magic Kingdom.
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