Trip to Disney _ 20 - 24 Sept

Our last week in US was spent in Disneyworld at Florida after a day of frantic packing and moving furniture out of our little apt. Fortunately, we only need to move the furniture to my SG neighbour's place who bought over the furniture. On the Sunday morning itself, we left our almost empty apt early in the morning for the airport. After a 3 hours flight, we finally reached Orlando International Airport at around 1230 pm. We then spent another 30 minutes trying to figure our way to the counter where we can board the Disney Magical Express - a complimentary bus ride to our Disney resort. Needless to say, we were impressed by the fuss free and convienient transport and the impeccable service provided by the Disney staff that we now understand how and why Walt Disney becomes a multimillion dollar service industry.

We finally reached Disney All Star Music Resort at around 2 pm and was checked into our room swifly. The hotel room was much nicer and spacious than we thought after reading so many horrible reviews online but because we were initially on a budget constraint that we chose the cheapest and valued for money resort. Later, although I decided to upgrade to a intermediate range resort, there were unfortunately no more vacancies so we still remained booked to this value resort.

Since we have already decided to take it easy on this trip, we did not plan for a full itinerary ahead of us. For the rest of the day, we swam in the guitar-shaped pool followed by a trip to Downtown Disney and enjoyed our dinner at the restaurant there.

Our favorite activity - take a dip in the pool in the hot weather. I love the look on Br wearing his life jacket.

Borrowing the Mickey mouse ears for a shot!

The second day of our vacation was to Animal Kingdom where we get to see real animals up close. The weather was really hot and humid and the rainforest canopy there seems to make the weather more humid and unbearable for us. Fortunately, I heed the advice of a fellow SG friend to subscribe to the Ridemax program where I could plan my itinerary to each theme park beforehand and the program would plan it in such a way that we could reach each ride or place in the shortest possible time and spent the least time waiting. We just strictly followed the plan and went to each ride at the suggested timing. I think without the plan, we would definitely have been overwhelmed by the number of activities and people around and have no idea where to start going around. Our favorite ride of the day is the Kilimanjaro Safari Ride where we got to sit in a jeep and pretend that we are riding through a real Safari grassland with all the real animals roaming around minus the dangerous types like lions and leopards.

At the Rainforest cafe having lunch where we take a cool respite from the hot weather.

The third day was a trip to Hollywood Studios. In fact, this is our favourite theme park of our whole Disney trip. We got to see the exciting car racing and explosion scene that even our little toddler, Ry was memserized. There are also 2 very good musicals like Nemo and Beauty and the Beast that we all enjoyed tremendously. I am extremely happy that Ry enjoyed the musicals as well. At least, now I know who to ask to accompany me to future musicals and concerts since Daddy does not really know how to enjoy these shows and I do not have a little girl.

Our favorite show of the day!

The last theme park that we visited was Magic Kingdom. Initially, we thought we would be overwhelmed by the grandeur and the crowd but after orientating ourselves to the other 2 theme parks previously, we found ourselves pretty bored by the kiddiness of Magic Kingdom. However, Ry still managed to find himself amused by a few rides and the little playground where he can climb, roll and run around.

Overall, I would say that the Disney trip was a success even though we did not try many exciting rides since our boys were too young. I would definitely wish to revisit Disneyworld if possible when the boys are older which I believe the experience will be totally different.

Br wearing my sunglasses!