Disney At Christmas Time!

Last week, my family got back from our amazing vacation in Walt Disney World.  Although we've been to "The World" a bunch of times, this trip was full of firsts and great times.

The 10 of us enjoying Hollywood Studios

My husband, Jason, our kids, Nathan and Drew, and my parents and I left the day after Thanksgiving and stayed for 10 days.  We stayed at Port Orleans Riverside, a moderate resort on Disney property. My aunt and uncle who live in Florida, my cousin Katie who lives in upstate New York- near my parents- and my cousin, Samantha, who lives in Boston all met us for 4 days of the trip!  Which made it even more special  We stayed in a Royal room, which is decorated with Disney princess touches- which I loved!  The bathroom faucets looked like the Genie's lamp from Aladdin, the bench looked like the "dog bench" from Beauty and the Beast, there were pictures of princes and princess and a letter from Tiana from The Princess and the Frog welcoming us as her guest.

This was our first time visiting during the holiday season.  Christmas is my favorite time of year, and Walt Disney World is my favorite place, so it made the trip even more magical!  We got to see the Osbourne Family Specatacle of Dancing Lights before it leaves Hollywood Studios for good, we also went to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingom, the Candlelight Processional at Epcot, and went on a one horse open sleigh ride to look at the Christmas lights at Fort Wilderness!  (It was actually a horse and buggy, but they make it look like a sleigh- Florida, you know!)

My mom, Nathan, my 2 cousins and I loved
all the gluten free food we got to eat!

We also ate.. a lot!  We returned to some of our favorite restaurants, and tried some for the first time.  I've said it before and it's still true, I love eating at Walt Disney World.  My mother, Nathan and I have celiac disease, so we can't eat gluten.  Disney treats people with special diets like people!  It doesn't matter if you're eating at a sit down restaurant, or a counter service restaurant, they will cook you some delicious food and not make you feel like a second class citizen.

At the end of the Family Magic Tour, we got to meet
talking Mickey Mouse!

This was Nathan and Drew's 6th trip to Walt Disney World.  We wanted to do something different.  We did the Family Magic Tour at the Magic Kingdom.  It was amazing!  One of the highlights of the trip.  Drew also played the Agent P game at Epcot- he loved it!

I am going to fill you in on all of this!  Stay tuned for more blog posts- on the food, the holidays, the Family Magic Tour and Agent P game, also how Nathan did.  Walt Disney World is Nathan's favorite place- just like his mom!  But I took this for granted.  I pushed him too hard on the first day and that kind of spoiled the whole next day for him and made some things difficult for the rest of the trip.  I'll explain that and what I would do differently if I could.

Stay tuned!