And what a trip it was.
We have this fancy alarm clock that lets us set an alarm for each individual day. During the work week, it's set for 430am. During the weekends, it's set for: OMG are you kidding me? No alarm at all, I'm sleeping until noon at least!
So to get this trip started, we needed to be up at 430am in order to get packed and on the road by 5, in order to get to Garry's work by 530am to catch the shuttle to the airport.
And so Garry woke us up by saying, "Boys, the shuttle leaves at 530...and it's now 520." Yes, we trusted our alarm to go off at 430 and since today was Saturday...it didn't! We jumped out of bed, jumped into clothes, threw stuff in the car, and took off! We were late to the shuttle, but caught the next one, got to the airport, and got on our way.
We made it to Orlando, got the car, met the family. My nephew was confused to find us waiting there, because he had no idea that Orlando was our actual destination. We bundled into the car, got to the resort, to the room. We unpacked, swam, then headed to the Magic Kingdom for an evening of just getting a couple rides in and watching the fireworks.
We were surprised. In just 4 hours we managed to ride Space Mountain, Astro Orbiter, Haunted Mansion, Big Thunder Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean. We had a bit of dinner, then scooted to Main Street to watch the light parade and fireworks. We had horrible location, really, for the light parade, although we got to see some of the floats.
But this year they added something new! Prior to the fireworks, they projected a display onto the castle. Let me clarify a bit: Big castle...being used as a canvas for a laser show. And what a show it was! Using lights, they projected images onto the castle utterly visually transforming it into many things including a castle made building blocks, paint sketches, a rocket ship in which the tallest tower blasted off!
Honestly it was surreal, amazing, unbelievably imaginative. If we'd got on the plane and come home right then, that show would have made the trip worthwhile.
But then we watched the fireworks and headed home.
No pictures at the moment as it's now 7am on Sunday and we've gotta get on the road to the Movie Lot. I'll try to get some processed and posted shortly.
