If you ever want to find yourself utterly unable to begin to know what to write, I highly, highly recommend taking a 7 night cruise to Alaska on a Disney ship with your family and 150+ of your closest friends. I’ve been trying to figure out where even to begin to talk about this trip…
Confession: I wasn’t that excited about Toy Story Land in the months leading up to its opening. ::ducks for cover:: Don’t get me wrong, I was eager for another new space. And for life to return to Hollywood Studios. And to eat everything at Woody’s Lunchbox. And the Toy Story franchise is one of my…
If you’re anything like me and you’ve participated in a runDisney 5K, you have a little pang of “why why WHY did I sign up for this?” when your alarm goes off at around 2 a.m. so that you can go run 3.1 miles. There have been many mornings when I’ve reevaluated my life choices…
So yesterday Walt Disney World made the oh-so-earth-shattering announcement that resort guests will now generally be charged an overnight parking fee. The fine print can be found here – but the gist is that for reservations made on or after March 21 of this year, standard overnight parking for resort guests will cost $13/night for…
We closed on our Florida home on August 11, 2017 – just 3 days before the kids were set to start at their new schools. The flurry of madness that preceded that day has, as these things do, settled into a barely remembered blur. And while I do still usually use my navigation system to…
There once was a time when I set my alarm for dawn 180 days out from our trips to book all of the hard to get ADRs. Now, on park days, I wake up in the morning and browse the Disney app with the kids to pick our day’s plans. Yesterday morning was a lazy-ish…
If you’ve ever moved into a new-to-you house or condo or apartment or other space, you have at least an inkling of what this question means. How deep it runs. If you’ve ever moved to a place where you once vacationed (or just downright escaped to), you have probably also experienced the strange paths that…
Occasionally I find myself having run a good, healthy, calorie burning distance on property and, as such, famished beyond all pretensions of self control and within reach of some very excellent food. It’s a dangerous combination. Such was the case a week or so ago as I stumbled into the Grand Floridian after a long…
I tend to be at the Magic Kingdom either alone with two small children or actually alone – but with a limited amount of time to kill before picking up those same two small children from school. As such, I don’t often have the luxury of a proper meal in the park. It’s more often…