Getting to Florida

Two weeks ago we took our first Disney cruise. I'm going to dedicate the first part of this post to getting there however. We left La Grande at 630 AM Thursday morning, drove to Seattle (5.5 hrs), boarded a flight to Dallas (4 hrs), had a short layover, flew to Fort Lauderdale (2.5 hrs), waited for a shuttle to the hotel and spent the night. The next morning we had to wait until noon to catch our shuttle to the port of Miami 1 hr away. We could board the ship at 230 pm. It was a marathon of travel! The kids were so patient and when we finally got to board Wynn and Sydney were ecstatic. I don't think it was very real for Wynn until he could actually see the ship with the Mickey Mouse smokestacks. Then he started to get really anxious. I didin't realize that the hotels in Florida usually have tile floors because of all the sand. so I had just anticipated the kids sleeping on the floor for one night...... the hotel didn't have rollaway beds either so all 6 of us got to squish into 2 double beds! Fun night eh? At least Abby was comfy in her pack n play.

 Sydney read a 60 page novel in about an hr on our flight!