The Honeymooon Review!

We had a great honeymoon part 1 in Orlando.  It was nice weather all the way up until our last full day.  But here's the most interesting part....our main focus in choosing Orlando was Epcot center.  After reviewing the Epcot brochure we both decided we weren't interested.  So no Epcot!  In the brochure it seemed as though it has become eateries and short films.  Eateries dedicated to a certain country's food and films dedicated to certain countries. 

We went to the Magic Kingdom one evening.  We rode a few rides then stayed for the holiday parade and fireworks show.  The fireworks show was the main thing I was interested in seeing, I knew it would be awesome. We also visited Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.  It was okay.  But certainly not my fave!  It was overly crowded and not much to do.  They would have certain shows going on at specific times, so the crowd of people would go to those shows, and once those shows let out it was a massive influx of people into the Disney streets.  Chaos!

On Thursday we decided we needed a break from the theme park action and took a day to just do random things.  We took a bus to another resort area and walked around.  We had lunch on the Disney Boardwalk at the ESPN restaurant.  Brad quickly noticed the restaurant's Dallas Cowboys memorabilia so he liked that!  We then rode the ferry.  And after being on the water in the ferry we decided to rent a boat for a little while.  We both took turns at the helm of the boat.  Yes, I drove a boat for the first time.

On Friday we went to Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park.  As we had decided to forego Epcot and instead try out the Animal Kingdom.  Disney's Animal Kingdom is like a big zoo but a bit more upscale.  There's plenty of live animals to be viewed.  But there's also some added attractions.  We went on the water rapids ride.  I should mention that on Friday the high there was 60 degrees.  Not exactly river rafting weather!  But I wanted to go on the river rapids ride super bad.  So I convinced Brad to go!  Poor guy! He got a little more wet than I did.  Neither of us regretted going though!  Soon after the water rapids experience I suppose it was payback time...I convinced him to go on the rapids and he now wanted me to go on the Everest rollercoaster with him.  Yes, folks I went on my first rollercoaster.  I was terrified!  You know how they snap photos of you on certain rides then try to sell you those photos?  Well we looked at our photo when we got off the rollercoaster.  Brad is happy as a clam, laughing away...as for me, I'm as close to him as I could get with my head leaning into his chest and my eyes closed in terror!  Geez, how embarrassing!  I think that was my first and last rollercoaster!  It is nice to say I've been on one now but I just don't enjoy that sort of thing.  We then went on a few more rides one was similar to a rollercoaster.  So I suppose one could say I've been on two rollercoasters now!

I was thinking that Saturday would be a nightmare to come home, with it being so close to Christmas.  Surprisingly it wasn't bad!  The great thing about Christmas time travel though is there's a few days to get there.  People could choose to travel Friday night after work or Saturday or even Sunday.  It's not like Thanksgiving where it's a rush to get to the airport on Wednesday after work for so many people.  It took us only about 20 minutes to wait in line at security. 

Our absolute favorite area to spend time in was Downtown Disney!  I don't think we skipped a day of going there!  It had shopping, it had movies, it had great restaurants...oh and I must mention it had a Giradelli's Ice Cream Shop.  Awesome sundaes!  We even sat in the freezing cold Friday night to eat sundaes.  Friday was quite cold for Florida.  They were starting a 3 day cold snap on Friday.  As we kept saying to one another about Friday's cold temps...it's just preparing us for the flight home to Dallas!