Relaxing. Eating. Having a Good Time. | Pool Time & Mother's Day at Walt Disney World

Good morning. We are so happy that you're here with us to spend Mother's Day weekend. We daily vlog. So if you like this video we hope that you'll come back tomorrow. Today we are starting out in Winter Park, Florida. James is inside Floyd's barbershop right now getting a haircut. Peter then will also be getting a haircut. So Teddy and I are just hanging out in the car while they finish up. I'm gonna take the boys somewhere while Peter gets his haircut. It's been so fun to be in like our familiar streets of Winter Park. If you did not know this is the neighborhood that we lived in before we moved back to Chicago two years ago. And so it's just nice to feel familiar see all of our places. So we have a busy weekend ahead and so boys will be looking fresh. We're going to the pool today with some friends that are staying at Disney. We have breakfast reservations tomorrow. Yeah so lots lots to look forward to. Thanks for coming along. Yeah. Hi. Hi. Hi. James look at your haircut. Looks good. So we are at the Winter Park Farmer's Market. We got a cheese danish and a croissant and we're ready to eat. All right I feel fresh. I should have grabbed my sunglasses before I left Sarah because she took the car and the boys over to Park Avenue which is just a couple blocks over so I'm gonna walk over and meet them. I love my, this is the Floyd's I used to go to when we lived here before because we used to live over here. Traffic. We used to live over here in this neck of the woods. I really do miss it. It's probably my, so far from what we've experienced from like outside of the theme parks area, Winter Park is my favorite like neighborhood community kind of a feel. It's just so far from the theme parks right. Sarah and I were talking like what if would that feel differently with me working remote still like could we make the times work out just fine compared to living here at like rush hour during dinner time and everything but hopefully it just means we'll just come visit more often. But James and I have fresh haircuts. Celebrate mom tomorrow. I gotta go meet, gotta go find him. Uh, Fiddler's Green. So this was like, if you guys remember, I would show it sometimes. This was my my running route for two years right here. Fiddler's Green right past the Ravenous Pig, the parent company of Downtown, well I almost call it Downtown Disney. Disney Springs, the Polite Pig. This is the the actual restaurant. Very cool. Coming up on Rollins College. Bring back a lot of fun memories. See and this was it. This was this was one of two main turnaround points was this Winter Park clock. I would do a lot of my night runs this way and I would hit this point, turn around, there's a water fountain over there. I'd get so mad and then turn around and go back home. Sarah and the boys are just over there by the train station, the farmers market's on the other side of the train track. Winter Park, Downtown Historic District. Oh, it feels nice to be over here. All right, we're at Barney's to get some coffees and a pastry. Love it here. Love it, love it, love it. Is there another pair? I'm gonna call Christina. Look, there's a good duck and goose. We've been obsessed with this, like there's a little tv show on Apple TV Plus. We must get them. Look at this guy. This guy got some swimming in. He's living his best life. He's got his chips, his dips, his veggies, his hummus. Living his best life. That's all I got, that's all I got. You cannot come to Port Orleans Riverside without going to Allman Swimming Hall. Allman Swimming Hall, Sarah's go-to childhood swimming hall of a Disney vacation. So that's what we're gonna go to. Oh gosh. We just woke up from a snooze of blues. All right, we're gonna go in to get a lava smoothie for mom to begin Mother's Day celebrations. The boys are having so much fun in the pool. I hope they sleep good tonight. The boys went and got us a lava smoothie. Starting out Mother's Day treats. Lava smoothie and pretzel surprise. Yum. Dance, dance, dance. You love that pretzel? The strap. Does this look like a good Port Orleans Riverside pool time? It's perfect. So our friends went to Disney Springs. They're gonna come back for Yeehaw Bob, but we will not be meeting them for Yeehaw Bob. No, we're gonna go. We're gonna go home. It's been a long day. It's been a long day, yeah. Full of haircuts and swims and fun and friends. Farmer's Market. Farmer's Market so we can go home and rest. For tomorrow is this girl's day. This is your sign to book a trip to Port Orleans Riverside. The boats. The boats. The wheel. The wheel. Best food court. Fabulous bar. Great shop. The pool. Top notch. It's undoubtedly the best place in all of Washington. And if you're a Florida resident and or an annual pass holder, there's like insane deals right now. It's like 25% off. And if you're not, just do it. Still come in here. Cute. This matches our stuff. Oh yeah. We're in the gift shop of Port Orleans Riverside. Look at all this like New Orleans stuff. So we're like, we are wishful thinking that Sarah's gonna be too pregnant to do... We're gonna go home next. Yes. I'm sorry, I'm pregnant again. That looks delicious. So like we're gonna do Disneyland for the Dumbo Challenge, but if Sarah's too pregnant, we're gonna do New Orleans instead. Yeah. Our friends Brett and Jared live in Louisiana. We've been meaning to go like stay with them and then show us around like where they live, but then it would be great to also do New Orleans. I don't know. And they're gonna be here soon. That's our backup plan. That's our backup plan. Obviously we want to do Dumbo. Obviously we want to be too pregnant. So excited to do Disneyland, but like we're not going to stop treatment, trying to have a baby because of it. Yeah. This is the cutest piece of merchandise I think I've ever seen. Look at the princesses being pails. Ponzo, Snow, and Tiana. My three faves. These three. Look at Ariel. So cute. And then Belle and Maud. Aurora and Pocahontas. It holds like pressed pennies. So cute. When in doubt, Publix it out for dinner. Happy Mother's Day. The benefit of James waking up at 4 30 in the morning was so he could help me get the flowers and a little sign ready for mom. I got these flowers last night at Publix. Sarah was not aware. Cut them down. They're two bouquets. We made into one. Gave them fresh cuts. Sarah wanted like an old-fashioned flower bouquet wrapped in paper and we couldn't find at the farmer's market or anything. But we made it work. I made it work today with this construction paper. So James is going to say good early morning because I woke up at 4 30. We're so glad you're here. Daily Vlogs. If you enjoy this video, make sure you come back every day. I will be making some coffee. Teddy's still snoozing. Sarah's still snoozing. We do have an early day. We have a 9 a.m breakfast at Disney World. It was 8. Sarah moved it last night to 9. So it wasn't so early of a morning. Oh yeah? But it's gonna be a good day of celebrating Sarah. We hope you guys have a great day celebrating all mothers, mom-like peoples, and just important people in your life today. Many hours later, we enjoyed Halloween. Oh you did? James and I did this early this morning. Look at this beautiful woman on Mother's Day. Wow. Thanks. Usually we are arriving to Crescent Lake today. We're at the yacht. We're going to brunch. We're going to brunch. Reservations at Ellen Compass, which we've never done for this brunch, whatever. And I didn't even find out until last night that there's a buffet with an entree. Is this gonna be like a hidden gem? I don't know. I love Ellen Compass. If I could decorate our house to be Ellen Compass, that's how I would decorate my house. A woman like Ben loves to do it. Let's decorate our house like Ellen Compass. We've got Duck and Goose joining us today. We have checked into Ellen Compass. We're just waiting for our table to be ready. So we're having some fun. Whoa. Duck is the adventurous one. Straight to coloring. Look at these big kids. Alrighty, here is this menu. Fancy coffee and tea. And the buffet. Cocktails. Ooh. And the entrees. Pause if you want to read them. I have been eyeing the crab cake by tonight since I saw the menu. So I know what I'm getting. We did a first round of the buffet. For the kids. So many pastries. Croissants, banana bread, cinnamon rolls. Two different yogurts and fruit. It's all Jamesy needs in life. For our entrees, both Peter and I got the crab cake. It's Benedict. It looks so yummy. It comes with potatoes. Mmm. Delicious. Oh, big kids. I also went up to the buffet. Got biscuits and gravy and more pastries. Wow, they gave flowers too. How nice. We're also full up to the gills as James is saying. Just finishing our drinks. And then we're going to be out of here. James got up at 4.30 so he's already full. How was breakfast? Breakfast was wonderful. And I think that really was a good value. Because the entree, I got a crab. Benedict. We have Lumiere and Cockroach over here. We need to go see. Because Sarah and I both got the crab, that feels like a really good high quality entree. And that was $19 on its own. So add four more bucks and you get the buffet. I wouldn't have thought that the entree was worth it by itself. But the whole package. I'm very full. Perfectly full. It's a steamy one though. It was a great, fantastic value. And the kids, so many options. James ate three yogurt parfaits. And his entree. But it was great. It was wonderful. Alright, so we walked to America because the shop in Japan is not open yet. The music might be a little loud. So we come to America and be like, Oh, there's a Voices of Liberty show. We haven't seen that in so long, in like 20 minutes. Like, okay, let's go see if there are strollers in there. And as we walk in, it's like, oh, welcome in. Yeah, we're not going to do an American Adventure. We're just going to do Voices. And they're like, yeah, as long as one of your kids is asleep, you can come on in. And we're like, oh, okay. We went to go look because they both had just been awake. And they're like, oh yeah, they're asleep. And we're like, they both were asleep. So now we're just going to hang out in here. Yeah, and we thought that they were both awake. So they're like, yeah, they're asleep. We're like, what? AC and some... And we haven't seen Voices of Liberty in so long. America! The land of the free! The home of the brave! Every heartbeat's true For a red, white, and blue Where there's never a post or break! Should old acquaintance be forgot? Keep your eye on that grand old flag! You've got a friend in me Friend in me Just a song at twilight When the lights are low And the flickering shadows Go softly, go mellow Hi! Oh, you want them? Alright, we're saying hi to Tigger and friends. We're going to get one last little AC break and just break from the sun before we head back to Yacht Club. We weren't doing a whole day, we were just doing a little bit of fun since we were here. Alright, many hours later, we're home. The kids napped. Sarah began editing the vlog and I'm going to cook a very simple dinner. We've got some mild Italian chicken sausage that I'm going to decase and we're going to chunk up. Not get it back to ground sausage, but leave it chunky. I've got some water going. We've got some onions just seasoning up with some garlic and pepper and butter. We're going to do a simple pasta dinner. If it looks weird, I got like an abrasion or a cut on my eye yesterday and it's been so irritated since. Like literally, I couldn't even function. I had sunglasses on, I was just watering. It was watering so much my nose was running. Here is the simple finished dinner. It's just a fruit salad. Mmm, thank you! Gotta blow on it. You're not going to blow on it. You're going to love that sausage though. I'm finishing up today's vlog. Peter did sign off late last night. We kind of just like sort of fizzled and so I just wanted to say on here, thank you everyone for all the Mother's Day wishes that you had sent me. Peter made a nice post on our discussion group and you all were so kind to comment and just send messages and what not. Mother's Day is very complicated and I won't even list all the reasons. It just is. And as far as our family goes, if you were not aware, my mother passed away in 2021 and it was actually Mother's Day was the first time where she was like, I think we need to reschedule, just have another day, I'm not feeling well. And that was like really this time of year is really like the beginning of her being ill. She passed away from cancer and it was like her diagnosis to her passing away was less than three weeks. It was very sudden. So again, like this time of year, it's just, it's hard. So like this simultaneous like celebrations and just like the wonderful filled with joy day we had like can also be, you know, partnered with heaviness and you know, like being away from the family and having gone through infertility, like I feel like I'm still healing Mother's Day. Like, I don't know. It's just it's just complicated. Just know like you're watching this. We we're here with you. We, we feel that that complicated feeling too. And so again, thanks for all of the light that you all bring us. And it was a wonderful day again to share. We love sharing our days with all of you. We couldn't just be happier that you're along for the ups and the downs and everything in between. It is good to be home. We know what our goals are. We know what we hope to accomplish. And believe me, it's the most exciting and challenging assignment we've ever tackled at Walt Disney Productions.