At the airport Charlotte was desperate for mac and cheese from Chilli's, but they didn't do take out, so she had to settle for Doritos instead. Such a hard life.
The flight was uneventful - and our shortest flight of the whole trip, which was nice. We arrived in Orlando, grabbed our bags, and headed off to the Magical Express.
The Magical Express is Disney's beautiful free bus transportation to their resorts. And we got to use our super you-beaut a magic bands for the first time. We had had them sent to Kim's house so we were all wearing them and able to touch them and watch Mickey go green to wor us in.
Once on the bus it wasn't long until we reached Walt Disney World, or WDW, and then not much longer until we reached our hotel. For the first 4 nights of our stay we had a booking at the Villas at the Grand Floridian Hotel, one of Disney's flagship hotels at WDW.
We checked in, and bell services walked us and or luggage over to the villas, pointing out the pools on the way. We were taken to our room on the second floor, room 1222, and opened the door to find...
...Pixie Dust! Although we had booked a studio room, they had given us a 1 bedroom. Wow! The room was absolutely beautiful - a kitchen, lounge, HUGE bathroom, bedroom. Charlotte was excited by the bed that pulled down from the wall underneath the TV, and both the kids were wowed by the TV in the bathroom mirror - as in, it looked just like the whole mirror was just mirror, yet one part of it was actually a TV screen. So easy to get them in the bath when they can watch TV. Just hard to get them out :).
We wandered around for a bit and checked out the pool area with its water slide and Mad Hatter Tea Party water play area. There was a fire pit where the youth counsellors were handing out sticks and marshmallows to toast - yummy.
We then headed off to find food. After checking out all the options we got a table at the Grand Floridian Cafe - which is much more upmarket than it sounds from the name - and had a beautiful dinner. Wayne would have enjoyed his steak much more, except Charlotte decided she didn't like her meal and proceeded to eat half of the steak.
We then wandered back to go to sleep, ready to prepare for our first day at the Magic Kingdom tomorrow.
