Finally the day we had been waiting for came! February 4th and we were off to Disney! For whatever reason Mike and I woke up at 3:58am, 2 minutes before our alarms were set to go off. After we quickly got our acts together and had the car packed, I went to wake up Paige who was seriously tired. I carried her downstairs to put on her jacket and shoes...still in jammies, no hair or teeth brushed. At this point she was pretty awake. After waking Paige, I went into Rose's room and woke her up enough to get her sleep sack off and jacket, socks and shoes on. She looked really confused, but opened her eyes and sat up. When we got into the car the girls were wide awake. We stopped briefly at a Tim Hortons to grab coffee, and Mike ordered a bagel for himself. When they smelled the food...."hungie", says Rose, "I'm hungry", says Paige. I busted out their snacks/breakfast and they were good to go. Pretty quiet on the way to the airport, but excited and confused. The airport was pretty rushed, as per usual, and I'm thinking a Nexxus pass may be in order for the family to avoid the long customs line. It's a pretty long wait when it's that early in the morning. We were go go go go go all the way until we got onto the plane late, as per usual, and then we were on our way. The flight was uneventful. Neither of the girls were even close to sleeping, and before we knew it we were in Orlando! It was a warm day, much warmer than our arrival day last year, which is always good. It's always good to have an extreme temperature change rather than a minor one.
When we got to the hotel we were able to check in right away. It was about 11:30. The thought never crossed my mind, but it was quite possible we would have had to wait till 4:00 for check in. Not sure what we would have done. We ordered a room service lunch since we hadn't gone to the grocery store yet to stock our kitchen. The plan was for Rose to have a nap after lunch but it soon became apparent that she was too hyperactive to sleep. Paige and Rose were running around and singing and being crazy. They were too excited, and for weeks Paige's idea was that we would go swimming right away when we arrived at the hotel. We decided that would be a good idea since Rose was clearly not going to sleep, so we got ready and off we went to the pool!:
After about 45 minutes Rose got really tired and spacey looking so I took her back for a nap. As I was carrying her back to the hotel room she was about to doze off. She didn't even want any books and she was out like a light. Paige, on the other hand, was good to go until about 7:30 when we decided it was best she went to sleep! She did really well, but at dinner she was pretty quiet as she was eating our homemade pizzas.
A great first day! We put both girls in the same room and there were minor problems. Paige likes a night light, but Rose got confused by it and didn't sleep until it was dark. We have realized that both girls keep sleeping if the other wakes up in the night. For instance, Rose screamed out in the night and I ran in right away and Paige hadn't woken at all. Last night Paige had a bad dream and was thirsty and called for me 3 times, and Rose only stirred around slightly without waking up. We have the same type of hotel room again this year--2 bedroom unit, with kitchen and laundry room. Tons of space to put all of our stuff.
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