We walked in the castle and Cinderella was to our right taking pictures with families and signing autographs. When it was our turn, it was such a special moment to see Jordan meet her all dressed up like her. It was so precious. I couldn't believe that this was THE moment we'd been waiting for.
We went upstairs to the "banquet hall" and to our surprise, other princesses were going around to the tables to meet the kids. Jordan had a special time with Belle, Aurora, Jasmine, and Snow White. Micah left with kisses all over his face from the princesses. The food was very gourmet. The princes all received swords and the princesses all received star wands, and they all raised them high in the air to make their wishes. We ended with chocolate cheesecake covered in Mickey sprinkles, of course.
After lunch, we went back to our hotels to put the kids down for a nap before returning at 8 for the fireworks. It was well worth the trip back to see the fireworks over the castle, the castle lit up in different, brilliant colors, and even Tinkerbell flying from the castle. It was quite impressive. It was a great ending to a terrific and memorable trip. We said goodbye to the J's in the parking lot before going back and putting Micah to bed at about 11 pm!
The next morning we left the hotel at 7:30 am because our flight boarded at 9. (We had a layover in Dallas) The captain announced that there were thunderstorms in Dallas and that we would be leaving when we could. After spending an hour and a half on a nonmoving plane, we deplaned to go get some lunch. An hour later, we got back on the plane in Orlando and headed to Dallas. Of course, by this time we had missed our Seattle connection in Dallas, so we got on standby for the next flight. Jeff tried to book a flight for the next day on the phone, (thinking that we could spend the night with Jeff's parents) but they were all booked as well. They transferred all standby passengers to another flight leaving at 8:55 pm, only 7 hours later! Thankfully, there was a Chili's and a kid's play area close by. We had a great lunch at a place that we don't have in Washington and Micah played so well in the play area. Our flight was delayed to 10, then 10:15, then 10:25. That means that Micah played in the play area for five hours! He was a trouper the whole day. We couldn't have asked for a better kid.
We finally boarded the Seattle-bound plane at 11 pm. Even if we had wanted to spend the night in Plano, we still would have had to wait for all of the rest of the family to land in Dallas, which they did at about 10:45! So, even if we had waited for them to land, we wouldn't have saved any time since they landed so late. Jeff and Micah slept the whole flight, but I had to hold Micah since he kept waking up and kicking the seat of the gal in front of him, who was obviously displeased about that. We finally landed at 1-something in Seattle and were met by our angels, Angie & Katie. Thankfully, our luggage was waiting for us from a previous flight. The girls took us back to their place to pick up our car and we left Seattle around 2 am. Jeff was brave enough to drive, but needed me to talk to him the last 30 minutes of the drive. We figured that when we pulled into our house at 4 am, which was 7 am Florida time, it had been 25 hours since our alarm first went off at 6 am in Orlando!
We slept from 4 to 8, when Micah woke up right on schedule, saying over the monitor, "hi, Mommy! Hi Mommy!" We put a video on for him to get another hour of sleep, but then the guys came over who are working on our laundry and siding. We didn't even care, and slept through the banging. Jeff went to the church and Micah and I went grocery shopping. We've been downloading and uploading pictures and video and it's been so fun to look back through them all and remember our fun trip.
2 comments:
Least you didn't have to deal with the snow this time! Sunny
Oh my good gosh! How were you even awake enough to write this post?! I'm tired just reading about your trip home!! So sad that you were in Dallas, but stuck at the airport! Know that you always have a place to stay at the McCurdys too! The airport is our semi next door neighbor!!
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