Disney Recap!

Finally! I know this took me forever to get to, but I had to have a while to sit down and do it because I knew it was going to take a while to get through the eleventy billion pictures and pare them down to a somewhat non-ridiculous amount for a blog post. And boy did it ever! You guys, I'm really sorry in advance for the overabundance of pictures ahead.

So we arrived in the land of magic and fun on Sunday evening and proceeded to take goofy pictures in our room at the Swan:

Then we walked out to the Boardwalk to look around and enjoy the beautiful non-stifling weather! 

This is the last time you will see my hair down in these pictures. I straightened it every morning and the Florida humidity was like LOL, no. So up in a ponytail it went! 

Next we went to Downtown Disney for dinner at Planet Hollywood. 

The next day we started out in Animal Kingdom to ride everything we wanted to ride there (Expedition Everest, Dinosaur, and Dino-rama!) We also decided to ride the Kali River Rapids thinking, "We'll get a little wet, but we'll dry fast and we can run back to the hotel if we need to!" Yeah, we got soaked. We just happened to catch pretty much all of the biggest "rapid" on the ride. You can't really tell in the picture, but trust me, we were drenched! 

So that was a pretty uncomfortable bus ride back, but we were able to change clothes, so yay for that! Of course it pretty much rained half the day every day we were there, so we stayed drenched the whole time. But we made the best of it! 

Next we headed to Magic Kingdom! 

 That thing in the top right corner is called LeFou's Brew, and it's SO good! It's frozen apple juice with a hint of toasted marshmallow, topped with passion mango-fruit foam. Sounds really weird, but it's delicious! The one on the bottom is the coffee float made with vanilla soft-serve I always get from Auntie Gravity's in Tomorrowland. Yes, that is a poncho Adam's holding in the bottom picture. We wore those a lot.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Haunted Mansion, and the Riverboat

I just got a picture of Marie from Aristocats, NBD. 

That evening we went back to the hotel and watched a ridiculous amount of crime TV. It was awesome. 

The next day we spent in Hollywood Studios! 

Lights, Motors, Action! Show

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater where we ate dinner! Then we were ready to head back to the hotel since our shoes and socks were soaked through. We had some funnel cake on the Boardwalk that night because, clearly we had not eaten enough yet. 

The last day we went back to Magic Kingdom and finished up the day at Epcot. 

Main Street decked out for Fall! 

On the People Mover

Never enough shots of the castle! 

Test Track! 

In China! 

The ball! 

I don't have a pic of it, but we had the BEST caramel corn ever in Germany at the Werther's store. We were standing outside of it trying to decide where to go and the caramely, buttery smell wafted over. We were both like "WHAT IS THAT???" and we literally followed our noses over to the shop. Of course we got a bag of the caramel corn (it really did taste like Werther's caramel!) and a chocolate caramel filled cookie that was the size of my face. 

That was the end of our trip! We had a fabulous time in spite of the rainy weather! I can't wait to back as always, and until then, as Mickey would say...

What I'm wearing to Disney World

I love going on vacation but I hate to pack because it's overwhelming to me to try to figure out what I want to wear days in advance. I'm more of a spur of the moment outfit decision maker, but that doesn't work so well for traveling! So I thought I would try to plan out some things I definitely want to take to make my life a little easier when I'm packing for our Disney trip! Here goes:

I must have a cute, classic Disney tank top like this one, and I figure I can pair it with my light denim shorts, comfy converse, and sunnies. And of course no Disney trip is complete without Minnie ears!

Of course I'll need more than one outfit for the parks, but this is a good start!

Some other essentials for walking around the park- phone, camera (I would love to bring our DSLR, but I know it's not practical, so CoolPix it is!), sunblock for my very pale skin, and EOS lip balm! And a cute little cross body to keep it all in. ;) 

I want my makeup to be pretty minimal (ok, my makeup's always pretty minimal) so I'm sticking with the basics- blush, neutral shadows, eyeliner, and waterproof mascara. I also want to paint my nails and toenails Minnie Mouse red! And my Oil of Olay moisturizer with SPF 15 is a must to protect my skin! 

We will have one night in Downtown Disney and we have reservations at Planet Hollywood. It's by no means a fancy place, so I could wear jeans or shorts if I wanted, but I like to have one night when I wear a cute, casual dress to dinner. This little strapless dress and wedge sandals are perfect! (My dress and shoes are these exact ones, except the dress is pink and the shoes have aqua blue straps instead of pink, so use your imagination!) Add some dainty silver jewelry and Starbucks from their Downtown Disney store and it's a great night! 

Do you enjoy planning your vacation outfits? What kinds of things do you like to wear to amusement parks? 

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Confessions

It's that time again!

Time to get some things off my chest:

1. You guys, I have done HORRIBLY this month on my fitness goals. Like, it's not even funny. I haven't been sticking to my nutrition, I've done ok with working out but definitely not been consistent, and my water drinking SUCKS. But somehow I have at least maintained my weight and even saw the scale move down a tiny bit last week. So I'm calling that a win.

2. I just started doing Swagbucks last week (I know, I'm just a little late to the party) and I think I have a problem. I'm on it constantly trying to win more bucks, more, more! But I want a $25 gift card, dang it! (It is probably a very very good thing I don't gamble)

3. We just got our dryer vent cleaned for the first time like, ever yesterday (I'm pretty sure you're supposed to get it cleaned regularly). But I'm super excited because that should mean that I won't have to run my dryer 12 times in order to get one load of clothes dry! Yay!

4. I figured out our food and incidentals budget for Disney the other day and it's a little bit obscene how much money we are going to be spending on food. Just food. And we aren't talking about eating at the really expensive places either!

5. Adam doesn't think I should bring any kind of purse or bag into Disney because it's so much easier to just carry your ID and stuff in your pockets and not have to worry about a bag on rides and such. And he's right, but dang it, I need my stuff! My purse is like my security blanket! Boys just don't understand how terrifying it is to think of having dry lips and no lip balm. NO LIP BALM, the HORROR.

 

6. I heard that "All About That Bass" song on Pandora the other day and it is stuck in my head. It's not my favorite song ever, but it's alright and I don't hate it. Except now I kind of do because it's playing on a loop in my head and it won't go away!

8. I put my blog URL on my Twitter bio. This is a big step for me. I'm still kind of weirded out by people I know IRL reading my blog. Maybe I'll eventually start posting links to my blog or something crazy like that. Baby steps. (Shameless plug: if you want to follow me on Twitter, I would love it and you may do so here! I would of course follow you back! Just don't laugh at my pitiful amount of followers, I just started Twitter about a month ago because I'm not as hip and cool as you are.)

I think I'm done spilling my guts! (Eeew) Link it up!