The travel day is always the hard one

I know everyone has been waiting for the big reveal on the morning of our Disney trip.  Well it has been a crazy last 48 hours, but I do need to write it down before it all leaves my mind:

So the clues were hidden, and I wrote a little note to each kid in case one woke up earlier than the other and started to go downstairs.  Apparently the little note was one of the best things... not to say that the whole treasure hunt wasn't fun, it was just one of those things that both kids remembered after it was all done.  And of course, both kids had to be woken up, because Trevor had a hockey event early that morning.  So once the kids were awake, they went from clue to clue....Trevor needed a little help..guess his clues were a bit harder.  Then they uncovered the suitcases, Trevor read the welcome notes, and got this completely puzzled expression on his face, and of course asked, "We are really going to Disney World.....today??"  If I remember correctly, Gwen did a little jump and said Yay!  Yay!  We are going to Disney World...but it took her a few minutes.  No screaming...so I'm sure it won't win us any awards on AFV.  But it was a nice experience to have.  I'm sure the kids will remember it for a long time. 

So Trevor went to his last hockey game of the season, scored a goal in his last shift of the game, and throughout the day would say, "I'm SO excited to be going to Disney World".  Our flight left at 5:50pm so we had a while to wait to just get to the airport.  Gwen is at the age where she really can't understand all the steps that it takes to get to our final destination so she started assuming we were at Disney World after every leg of our trip.  Starting at arriving at the airport.  Then when we finally got there, she assumed we were going to one of the parks. 

Our flight and getting to the hotel was pretty smooth.  Unfortunately, we were the last resort on the bus to be delivered, but we were lucky enough to get right on a bus, so we were in our hotel room before midnight.  We got our food, had a little snack and went to bed.  It was a tough night of sleep but we were up to go to Disney Hollywood Studios shortly after it opened at 9am. 

And that, in a nutshell, was our first day of travel to Disney.