Friday, September 22, 2017

Disney 2017 Wrap Up!

We headed home on Friday, September 22nd.
This was how we were feeling:

Silly Shep!!  Tried to get a smile out of that boy all week and when I tell him to look sad, he smiles! 😂
Our flight left around 2:00 p.m. Florida time

Little guy tuckered out!
 We arrived in NWA at 3:30 p.m. Arkansas time!

After taking Andy's family to their house, we made a quick stop by Rachel's.  It would be Jeff's last visit to their Roger's home before they moved and we had a little gift for the 3 kiddos:
Toy Story character set for Copeland:

Mini Princesses set for Eisley

Small Mickey for baby Gideon
Then we went to On the Border in Rogers for a nice quiet meal before heading to Kansas.  As I was sitting there looking at my magic band, still on my arm, I posted this on Facebook:
I'm going to be really sad to take this Magic Band off when I get home. It was magical!❣️It gave us access to our Cars suite (where someone cleaned up after us every day, made our beds, gave us clean linens, etc!) We used it for meals, snacks and souvenirs. Disney photographers swiped it for each picture (we have over 600 pics to upload). And, of course, it gave us permission to enter whatever Disney park of our choosing. Man, it's going to be tough to go back to real life! 😪♥️
So true!!
The magic bands arrived about two weeks before we left on our vacation:
I did want to brag on my grandkids!  As you saw from each posting -- we walked a lot of miles each day.  It was hot!  But the girls did so well with it all.  Laine never complained once about the walking and Ellie only a few times.  DeDe did rent a stroller for her the last day since she had been so good about not whining.  And Mr. Shep did great!  He rode in his stroller 90% of the time without a complaint.  He would take a 30-45 minute nap each day in that stroller and then be good til late bedtime (he's use to taking a 2 hour nap a day and going to bed at 7:30 p.m.)!  They were sure troopers all week!!       💖💙💗
As I said in the other postings, you would never have known Shep had the accident.  He didn't mess with his bandaid or stitches at any time.  This picture is after he got home -- wearing his sister's Mickey ears.  Too cute!
When they took him to the doctor to get his stitches out, he did great.  Doc said it is healing well.  We will see if he carries his "Disney" scar the rest of his life or not.  His Daddy does -- slammed his thumb in the van door on our way to Florida when he was 7 years old.  That thumb is still black!
It's looking good this week:
It was a wonderful, memorable week and we look forward to going again hopefully with Rachel and family, Josh and family and probably Andy and family.  We made Carman a "Disney" fan :-).  She loved it.  This is what she put on Facebook as we were leaving our resort for the last time:
Well the verdict is in...Disney World really is the happiest place on earth! ❤️❤️❤️
See ya real soon, Disney!
#swartdisney

Rachel and I sure want to go during the Christmas season since we have never done that.  I would love to go when it's not so hot!!

Just for memory sake (and to remember the next time), these are some of the rides that were shut down for renovation or we didn't have time for that I sure want to do next time:
Astro Orbiter
Avatar Flight of Passage (2-3 hour wait)
Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage
Disney and Pixar Short Film Festival
Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade
The Hall of Presidents (it was closed this time)
Splash Mountain (it was being refurbished) Girls would have loved it!
Walt Disney World Railroad

I think we did really well though in seeing/riding all that we did in 5 days!
And yes, I'm guilty of still checking my Disney app on my phone to see how long the wait times are on the rides - ha!!

I wrote the posting below in 2010 after our 6th visit to DisneyWorld (and twice to DisneyLand).  So now we add #7 to the list and hopefully a couple more times before we are too old to go (or the Lord comes)!


Thanks, Disney, for all the priceless memories!!! 

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