High Five Life

Day 7 – Checkout, Downtown Disney, Drive to St. Augustine Today was the day we checked out of Art of Animation.   We were bummed because no one ever wants their Disney vacation to end.   We packed up all of our stuff and loaded the car then headed to check out.   We still had two counter service meals each and something like five snack credits each. Our parking pass and dinning credits were good until midnight today, verified with a cast member, so we ate breakfast at Landscape of Flavors one last time and then caught the bus to Downtown Disney Marketplace. We shopped for several hours with highlights being the Christmas Store, Goofy’s Candy Company, Once upon a Toy, World of Disney and the Lego Store.   We had so much fun shopping, even thought we didn’t spend much.   We did manage to spend all of our snack credits on various goodies we could take with us. The construction had begun for the Disney Springs remodel but was in the very early stages of putting...

Day 1 and 2 – May 10 and 11, 2014 - Let them Eat Cake! The countdown was over and it was finally the day we leave for Walt Disney World!  My husband had to work on that Saturday so we decided to leave that evening and drive straight through to the Disney Art of Animation (AoA) Resort. My daughter and I slept in and then spent the day finishing with packing, running errands and making sure everything was ready at home. Hubby got home around 7:15 pm and we all sat down to a homemade dinner and discussed our car packing strategy. Since hubby had such a difficult time navigating the parks in October and we ended up renting a wheel chair most days, we decided to take our home wheel chair with us this trip.  It made packing a bigger challenge but over all made his trip more enjoyable for him and we saved money by taking our own. My unrealistic goal was to leave by 8:30 pm.  We ended up pulling out of the drive way around 10:00 pm which was still okay. We trav...