Our Magical Disney World Trip Right Before The Pandemic Hit #AD @WaltDisneyWorld

Disclosure: Howdy everyone, I just wanted to inform you that I was sponsored by Disney World  for this trip. However,  the opinions expressed in this post are 100% my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC guidelines.

Putting something as magical as Walt Disney World into words is a tough task. Something so breath-taking and extraordinarily life-changing cannot be expressed with just words…So we are adding pictures! Going to Disney World has been on our bucket list since my wife and I have known each other, for 18 years if we are being honest! It wasn’t until we had our daughter that made that bucket list item a dream, and that dream turned into a desire! Our family’s desires turned into a reality when Disney let us know that we had a day in Florida to visit all of their parks!!

Let’s start with when we received the news. It was a normal day in the office when my wife asked me to check my email, she must have used about fifty exclamation points! Once I opened my email, I noticed what all the excitement was about! I called my wife back and screamed: “We’re going to Disney World!!” We were packed 3 weeks before the actual trip!! I think the excitement even over-shadowed our fear of flying as we didn’t think twice when booking our tickets! We spent the flight planning as our task was to visit all of the parks in one day with our Park Hopper pass!

Now let’s fast-forward to the good stuff! The day of our Disney World Adventure! The family woke up in complete awe, we couldn’t believe we were doing this! Disney, here we come! The first park we visited was Hollywood Studios! Something as simple as seeing a sign that said “Walt Disney World, Where Dreams Come True” made us rave in astonishment. We are finally in Florida…we are finally at Disney World…we are finally at Hollywood Studios!

Upon entering the park we saw so many attractions with our initial overview. There were gift shops, lines for rides,

food, and tons of happy people!

Our initial thought was to find as many characters as we could for our daughter, and that’s what we did. We ran into Mrs. Incredible, Edna and Buzz Lightyear immediately!

Speaking of Buzz Lightyear, my wife’s favorite animated Disney movie is Toy Story, so naturally, that was the first stop. It was unbelievable to see how amazing Toy Story Land looked. I really felt like I was part of the movie between the toys everywhere and seeing Buzz Lightyear! The rest of Hollywood Studios was sight-seeing and waving at the characters. Aria (my daughter) was asleep after Alissa (my wife) spent most of the time living out her wildest Toy Story dreams!

The next stop was Epcot! This park was for me! There were stories of trying a beer in every country and that was my mission! The first thing we noticed when walking in Epcot was the huge symbolic structure called the Spaceship Earth. We often referred to it as the big golf ball! The golf ball was amazing because it was so huge and the sounds from the ride next to it made it sound like the golf ball itself was a ride! Epcot was not only my favorite park because of the diversities in culture and beer but it was Aria’s favorite because of the aquarium! We entered the aquarium and rode the ‘The Seas with Nemo & Friends’ ride which set the tone for the next few hours. Aria was stunned by all of the different fish from the sharks to the dolphins.