I’m Going to Disneyworld!

I’m going to Disneyworld next weekend! I can’t believe how this snuck up on me. Between Christmas holidays, the inauguration in DC, our anniversary trip in Cozumel and getting all the final details in place for Africa for May, I totally neglected to do ANY planning for my trip.

I’m going with a girlfriend of mine who wanted to run the Disney Princess Half-Marathon. I’d never really had any desire to go as an adult- I mostly wanted to avoid all the kids. We booked our hotel and airfare a while back, but now I need a plan of attack for the parks! I’m suddenly so excited and over-whelmed with all the choices & our very limited time there.

We arrive in Orlando at 1:30 Friday, then need to go to the Expo to pick up our race gear. We’re going to try to get to Epcot that night since it’s open an extra hour & also see the fireworks.

Saturday, Animal Kingdom opens early, so we’ll hit up that park and then head over to MGM. We’ve got the park hopper pass, so we might go back to Epcot since we won’t have much time there on Friday evening.

We’ve got to get back to our hotel pretty early because the half-marathon starts early + daylight savings time + east coast time! The race course looks fun & we’re totally just running it to have a blast- no PR’s are going to be set.

Hopefully we’ll be done with the race, showered & back out at the parks by noon. We’re going to hit up Magic Kingdom Sunday afternoon. We want to see the night parade & the fireworks, plus the park is open really late Sunday night.