Best Friends Head to Disney!

Day 1 - 'I'm too excited to sleep!'

We had an early flight, which meant she was picking me up at 4:30am to get to the airport    I felt like the little kid in the 'too excited to sleep' commercial because I spent the night tossing and turning.  We even texted each other a few times to update each other on our lack of sleep 

The airport/flight experience was kind of a sleepy blur (which I mean I guess that is a good thing really).  The ME ride to WL was when we both started to perk up a bit.  Those clips definitely help amp you up for the trip.  Walking in to WL and seeing the tree was so overwhelming.  It seemed like we had planned the trip forever and it was finally real.  But we were exhausted so after check in we took care of the truly important things, like getting our refillable mug and christening it with some coffee.  We scored some of the last holiday mugs they had in stock, filled the up with coffee and headed out by Geyser Point to soak in some sun, drink some coffee, and kind of decompress.  Lin was already so impressed with the resort.  It was so relaxing and welcoming, such a good spot especially since we were having an adult only vaca.  I mean I love the extreme themed resorts but this was definitely very relaxing right off the bat.

When it was time for our Whispering Canyon Cafe reservation we headed in.  We picked that restaurant because we just wanted to stay at our resort for a little while and decompress.  It was a good call, we both needed that.  I had read multiple places that the antics at WCC were toned down and let me just say this was NOT the case.  I am still glad we ate there but I probably would have warned Lin.  The antics were like, super charged or something since my last visit there.  Since we had deluxe we were able to order apps at each restaurant.  We both had the same app and entree - the salad and the skillet.  The salad is actually really tasty, fresh and light but interesting enough components to make it stand out.  I went a little crazy and had a caramel milkshake as a drink (yum!) and it was so filling it made eating lunch a challenge.  We didn't even eat half the skillet.  I still ordered dessert though and went with the apple pie.  Tasty but seriously so full, tired, and sugared that I couldn't eat much of it.  Lin had an allergy friendly dessert that is slipping my mind right now, probably because right around the time desserts came out we got the text that our room as ready and I was just SO EXCITED TO SEE OUR ROOM!!  I had requested a theme park view and wanted to see if it was granted.  When we walked into our room and saw the castle through the sliding door I almost cried. It was so perfect.

After relaxing for a bit we headed to Disney Springs.  We shopped a little, checked out the Christmas trees, then went to our reservation at Boathouse.  Service there was great.  The chef came out to go over choices with Lin and she went with salad for an app and filet for an entree (Lin ordering beef and greens became a bit of a theme of the trip )  She said she felt like a celebrity instead of a burden.  I went with hoisin calamari for an app. Tasty, but I made a rookie move and nibbled on some of the fried peppers.  First was mild. Second mild. So I popped a third in my mouth and it was so hot I started coughing and sputtering, trying to stay quiet so as not to be a spectacle in a signature restaurant.  I think I drank two glasses of water    It was kind of hilarious.  The calamari was cooked perfectly though.  I had the filet oscar style.  The waiter convinced me to get the larger size which was silly because I only ate half, and ended up liking it sans oscar style better.  It was coked perfectly though.  Dessert was apparently forgettable, because I forgot it....  .  We were full and exhausted and headed back to our resort.

I collapsed into my bed and Lin said I was asleep immediately.  I haven't had a bed to myself in FOREVER and I laid sideways across that thing, sprawled out to enjoy every inch hahahahaha