Monday, June 25, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Bella's First Trip to DisneyWorld!
Some of my favorite pictures:
Last week we had our annual family vacation with Grandpa, Uncle Tom, Ninang Maito, Ate Max, and Kuya Tom. This year we decided to do the Disney thing. Bella has already been to Disneyland twice, but it's not the same as DisneyWorld! DisneyWorld is AWESOME.... and exhausting!!!
Warning: some of my pictures are blurry, I couldn't figure out how to use my camera in certain lighting. At least the blurry pictures were also captured by Disney Photographers in the park, so I do have better copies of them, I just can't post them here, sorry!
Click here for first set of Shutterfly pictures.
Click here for the second set of Shutterfly pictures.
So Tom and family arrived a couple days ahead of us, since Mark and I stayed back to attend our highschool reunion. Can you believe 10 years has past already? Anyways, we arrived there last Sunday. Our flight was SO stressfull... we never usually fly with a connection, but this flight we had a stop in Miami (where we were supposed to wait for an hour) and then go on to Orlando. However, our plane was about an hour late leaving here that when we arrived in Miami we had minutes to get to our plane. On top of that stress, I had asked the travel agent at the desk here if I could check in my stroller so I didn't have to pick it up at the gate in Miami, and she told me I would have plenty of time... yeah, right. So when we arrived in Miami, I told Mark that I would wait for the stroller, and that he and dad should find out our flight status to Chicago. When he found out it was leaving in a few minutes, he bolted to the gate... guess who he left behind and did not tell... ME!!! So when I got the stroller, I looked around and no one was there... I tried to call dad or Mark, and no answer... So i just started to walk to the new gate, which Miami's airport is kinda confusing. I was totally pissed off though. When I saw Mark, guess who decided to vomit in the minutes that we had.... you guessed it... Bella (talk about GREAT timing!). Anyways, before we even had a chance to clean her and Mark up, we were dragged on the plane, the last ones on, everyone was already sitting down so it was kinda embarrassing. Now we were off... thank GOD!
We arrived in Orlando about 30 minutes later, and we did the Disney Magical Express, where Disney picks us up and takes us to our hotel, and they get our luggages for us and deliver it to us later. This was pretty cool, totally stress free. We got to the hotel, checked in, ate, headed off to Epcot to meet Tom and gang.
I won't go through our trip day by day, but we had a lot of fun! Tom went to all the parks, but we only went to Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, and Disney Quest. Turns out, Bella is at that age that she's scared of the characters. I guess when we were at Disneyland, she was too little to be scared, but now she's terrified of them. She's ok if they are at a distant, and she'll look at them, but when they reach out to touch or hug or kiss her, she doesn't like. She still likes her rides, and she LOVES swimming and playing in the water. Little Tom and Bella are hilarious together, and Ate Max is her usual good Ate always helping out and wanting to take care of Bella. So we came back home on Thursday night. I'm still recovering, SO TIRED!!! So, THANK YOU GRANDPA FOR AN AWESOME VACATION TO DISNEYWORLD!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
Last week we had our annual family vacation with Grandpa, Uncle Tom, Ninang Maito, Ate Max, and Kuya Tom. This year we decided to do the Disney thing. Bella has already been to Disneyland twice, but it's not the same as DisneyWorld! DisneyWorld is AWESOME.... and exhausting!!!
Warning: some of my pictures are blurry, I couldn't figure out how to use my camera in certain lighting. At least the blurry pictures were also captured by Disney Photographers in the park, so I do have better copies of them, I just can't post them here, sorry!
Click here for first set of Shutterfly pictures.
Click here for the second set of Shutterfly pictures.
So Tom and family arrived a couple days ahead of us, since Mark and I stayed back to attend our highschool reunion. Can you believe 10 years has past already? Anyways, we arrived there last Sunday. Our flight was SO stressfull... we never usually fly with a connection, but this flight we had a stop in Miami (where we were supposed to wait for an hour) and then go on to Orlando. However, our plane was about an hour late leaving here that when we arrived in Miami we had minutes to get to our plane. On top of that stress, I had asked the travel agent at the desk here if I could check in my stroller so I didn't have to pick it up at the gate in Miami, and she told me I would have plenty of time... yeah, right. So when we arrived in Miami, I told Mark that I would wait for the stroller, and that he and dad should find out our flight status to Chicago. When he found out it was leaving in a few minutes, he bolted to the gate... guess who he left behind and did not tell... ME!!! So when I got the stroller, I looked around and no one was there... I tried to call dad or Mark, and no answer... So i just started to walk to the new gate, which Miami's airport is kinda confusing. I was totally pissed off though. When I saw Mark, guess who decided to vomit in the minutes that we had.... you guessed it... Bella (talk about GREAT timing!). Anyways, before we even had a chance to clean her and Mark up, we were dragged on the plane, the last ones on, everyone was already sitting down so it was kinda embarrassing. Now we were off... thank GOD!
We arrived in Orlando about 30 minutes later, and we did the Disney Magical Express, where Disney picks us up and takes us to our hotel, and they get our luggages for us and deliver it to us later. This was pretty cool, totally stress free. We got to the hotel, checked in, ate, headed off to Epcot to meet Tom and gang.
I won't go through our trip day by day, but we had a lot of fun! Tom went to all the parks, but we only went to Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, and Disney Quest. Turns out, Bella is at that age that she's scared of the characters. I guess when we were at Disneyland, she was too little to be scared, but now she's terrified of them. She's ok if they are at a distant, and she'll look at them, but when they reach out to touch or hug or kiss her, she doesn't like. She still likes her rides, and she LOVES swimming and playing in the water. Little Tom and Bella are hilarious together, and Ate Max is her usual good Ate always helping out and wanting to take care of Bella. So we came back home on Thursday night. I'm still recovering, SO TIRED!!! So, THANK YOU GRANDPA FOR AN AWESOME VACATION TO DISNEYWORLD!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
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