I’ve gotten lots of questions about, “How was Disney”? In short - wonderful. I really admire how a company can get all their employees to be so consistently happy all the time. The only time they were close to not being happy was when Declan decided he didn’t like the kiddie coaster and jumped out of his seat while we were still out of the station to dive into Zandra’s arms. Sigh....

The weather was warm (maybe actually a little too warm the first 3 days) and we did come back sick to some degree. Still, a great trip.

We also got to go see some old family friends of mine - these are the folks responsible for my preference for Italian food. I’ll get pictures posted eventually (I did the first step which is get them off my camera...)

Some other thoughts:

- You’d never think that the favorite family ride would be the PeopleMover/Tomorrowland Transportation Authority (TTA) ride that takes you around Tomorrowland. Declan and Andrew love it. I wish Mr. Tom Morrow would ring his party from Saturn some day though. They’ve arrived after all.

- We got to see the inside of Space Mountain. One of our rides on the TTA, Space Mountain was in a “set up” condition. When the ride is down, the lights go up, and you can see the entire inside of the Mountain. It’s quite impressive. Especially for an ex-roller coaster operator like me.

- Declan doesn’t like roller coasters at present. Not even the Goofy Barnstormer coaster. And I wonder why they call the coaster an flex-octoplane. It only has 6 wings....

- All the fireworks are spectacular.

- The WDW Swan and Dolphin hotel were very nice, but I think the consensus is that next time, we will try to pay extra and get a villa again. The ability to have a fridge/kitchen and maybe eat in a few nights is really invaluable with young kids.

- 4 days is probably the right amount of time for a trip for us. I think after 4 days, we were ready to come home. Even if we had all been healthy.

- I am proud to say, I never checked work email once, and we never set up the laptop in the hotel.