Ideal Weekend Walt Disney World Itinerary! | Vlogmas 2024

[Music] good morning good morning we're so glad you're here we are doing vlogmas this year so if you like this video we hope that you'll come back from now until Christmas um it is Wednesday morning the reason I'm so happy is because we finally found these festive poppies I was able to do it on a mobile order for Target I actually cracked one open yesterday in the Vlog but I forgot to talk about it um I have been looking everywhere and I finally found them you guys know I've been on this like trying not to drink pop daily for a long time and I you know make my little kombucha drinks I drink Sparkling Water if you would have told me that 3 years ago I would have laughed at you um but any who whenever a company comes out with like a yummy festive option I want to try it I still have not found the like Shirley Temple one that came out I forget if that was Sprite or 7even up I haven't found a single cranberry ginger ale I'm always up for making my own little mixed version um yeah it's nice to finally have found that the only thing I don't like about it is that it has Stevia in it and I just just don't like the taste of stevia I know that's the whole point of these like not pop pops um I had one yesterday like right when I got it from Target I couldn't wait I just wanted to try it and it was better after it was in the fridge for a while so if you're like me I would recommend trying it but just having it [Music] cold this child is just pulling himself up and thinking he can just walk [Music] places is the T-Rex coming he he can never stop he just keeps on just pulling himself up going mommy yeah just going place to place like now he's literally like trying to walk to the table what's going on are you stuck in a bucket I'm my you're on Haunted Mansion so for the first time in a long time I Got 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night I people were like we feel great our formula for Charlie had been out of stack and I don't know I was just like we we just got it back so I'm like did that have something to do with it is he just like better settled and satisfied cuz it's just what he's used to I don't know what caused it but I'm grateful for it um I just made some appointments for I'm getting um a brain MRI and M and an mrv there's like three different things um I'm a migraine sufferer I've had them forever and so I've been having like it with I was I've talked about this the other day with my rheumatologist with me just feeling different my Vision has been a little just like again my vision's always bad but I'm having like a different sensation in my eye it's not painful it's not stopping me from seeing it's just like a sensation um and so I saw a neurologist and so we're getting the Imaging done she does think I should see like an actual eye doctor but they like don't have anything available until the new year but anyways like later than the new year um so I'm feeling good being productive doing that Charlie did wake up while I was like doing the appointments though and I couldn't settle him back down so that's kind of a bummer cuz obviously I want him to have good rest but I mean he slept great last night so he'll probably go down a little bit earlier then for his second map and Peter is about to pick James up from school so basically the afternoon will be spent with me trying to convince the little humans to sleep all righty then last selfie for a little bit remember the other day when I put this on and I was like intro and I thought that it was stained in chocolate because it was clean um it wasn't clean it must have just been in the wrong pile because I washed it I didn't do anything extra to it and all all the chocolate is gone I'm so happy this is new baby shoulder stuff um so if anyone was worried about my ACS sweatshirt now it is clean I took that clip maybe two minutes ago in the sweatshirt has chocolate ice cream on it again hey Christmas tree hey Christmas tree hey chair hey chair hey couch hey couch Teddy asked us to run around toy and we're saying hi to anything um we pass hey paintbrush hi is hi Island hi goofy ghost okay little latte Bring Me Back To Life [Music] all righty Peter is in charge of the surprise treat and he's going to our Glory Days of late night mozzarella sticks and potato skins what happens when you're about to turn 33 it's Peter's Birthday Eve what a weird day today we say that every day it's actually our inside joke every day we like go to bed and we just are like what a weird day every day but I had like a good day at work I've had a good like two weeks at work yeah um I don't know if you said this at all but I have to write a paper right now which after I finish that I'll be done with my investments class that's I was going to say I was going to say amazing I was going to say wonderful and nice said aazing I thought you I thought you I heard that to win you know I think I was going to say win and with that um I'm done with this term of this semester that's a big deal and I only especially because I only have two more classes and because of the scheduling conflicts with my college I have to take them one at a time which I've been doing two at a time which has been a stress in our family right so I'll take one more class in January and then one more class in March and then I'll be done with my MBA yeah and then maybe hopefully we're going to go to Chicago for you could so I walk I I can't talk so you can walk in your graduation I didn't walk with my undergrad because it was Mother's Day and I thought it was important to clean dishes for Sarah's ants and Mom I have made the funniest tripods during this vlogmas um it is midnight the Vlog just went live today was just a day and I feel like everyone else that I interacted with also agreed so maybe there was something in the cosmos going on um Peter actually brought me home that coloring book um and a bag of Doritos and was like go upstairs for a half hour um it there was so many pockets of Joy but there are also so many pockets of chaos too I don't even know my eyes gosh but we made it here we are so I thought I would like end this Vlog with like a fun little thing I've never really like done anything like this before and that is talking about like an ideal Disney trip itinerary it's kind of very specific because it's I lived this itinerary um our best friend Lauren she came down to visit us with her daughter Lucy like a month ago is and we just had like the most Splendid time and I was like I've been thinking I wanted to share this on Instagram but I'll do it here it's going to be brief like I'm just I just want to like chitchat and give like a little meat to this Vlog um because I just like want to share like I hope somebody can be inspired by this and like do this I'm going to scooch to the side so I can put a photo or two here um while I talk so it's a weekend trip so this is like I'm going to name the Vlog like the ideal weekend trip to Walt Disney World um Lauren arrived on Friday morning and this is a Friday morning to Saturday afternoon trip and basically that day was just like enjoying their Resort they stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge so like their their room the pool the food and then we met them that evening at Disney Springs and the kids did the Carousel and um we had our sandwich and it was just like one of those perfect like kickoff to your Disney trips um and again this isn't like necessarily like ideal for everybody because we only did Magic Kingdom in Hollywood Studios but I'll like explain why like it felt so just like and that was because we had like one expectation each day and then maybe like a snack or a meal to like make sure we did and because we were a able to accomplish everything we wanted to which was like a short list we everything else was just cake and it was so the kids had such a good time we had such a good time me and Lauren were just like we just haven't like had this like feeling of just like Bliss like it was just wonderful so start the trip off so the trip started with that little like kickoff like excitement um but it was nice like she arrived early enough where that day wasn't just like arrive and go to sleep but it also wasn't like that day wasn't so early that we felt like oh my gosh we have to go to a park and it wasn't like late enough where it was just travel like they were still able to enjoy themselves but it was just like of the perfect Arrival Day and then Saturday there was no Christmas party um so we spent the whole day at Magic Kingdom and we did get Genie plus um no it's not called Genie plus anymore we got lightning Lane multi pass I think that's what it's called we didn't get like the big one we didn't get like where you just stroll up that new one that I like can't even rant my mind around we got the one where like we were able to like plan ahead three days ahead like three fast passes they're not called fast passes anymore but you get the picture and the morning of we were able to grab a Tiana's why can't I think the Tiana's Bou Adventure um am IA new here it feels like it it really does um and maybe that's why it we like really enjoyed ourselves cuz it felt like a mini vacation and so we got the lightning Lane for Tiana's early and it was actually like we were like one of the first boarding groups which was nice but we started the day with Lauren and Lucy and Peter and I and all of the kids but then in the afternoon Peter left with the little two boys and then we just had like the afternoon of the big kids and then they came back for fireworks so we our goal that day was Tiana's and we were able to do pirates and Haunted Mansion and we just like truly worked our way around those lightning Lanes um and like James went on Big Thunder for the first time Tiana like Splash like it was James first experience maybe and maybe that's why this trip just felt so wonderful but you know we just knocked out lightning Lane after lightning Lane kept the expectations low we ate Casey's corner on the Hub grass and like let the kids just get out all their Wiggles and it was just like my biggest like advice of having low expectations it just worked and I know I know probably some of this was up to luck um but it just it felt like we just embraced what kind of came along so it was just a nice full day at Magic Kingdom and then we enjoyed the fireworks behind the castle so again we didn't have to like find a spot just like low expectations and let the magic come to us now the next so we only had like two full days together so that was like basically Park open to park close which we have not done in a while but actually like at the end of the night I was like I feel so good like I could go late like the kids couldn't we ended up leaving um and I don't know if it was just running on pixie dust but again we just because we took it slow and because we just kind of like mosied I was like I I could do this all day so the next day was Hollywood Studios now we did we were going back and forth about getting lightning Lanes but our one goal for Studios was slanky dog the last time Lauren visited she was expecting a baby and she could not ride it and she was she really really wanted to go on it and then the kids were too small so um that was our One goal of course when we picked our lightning Lanes there was no Slinky Dog so like after we purchased it there was no Slinky Dog but anyway we made the most of it but today we deci said we did not rope drop and we got a Topolino Terrace Character Breakfast now another like key to this day was that we decided that we were going to just have it be Lucy Lauren James and I um to start and like again that kind of like that's like more us like we were able to be more go with the flow with just like the we were celebrating their fourth birthday cuz Lucy turns four at the end of November and James is at the beginning so we went out to breakfast I was able to grab that reservation the night before we've been Hawking it we have been me and Lauren met at art school and she I wouldn't say she's like much artsier than me she's more like painty Studio Art um and yeah that like those their costumes and just like topalo Terrace like in general like is just so us and we've just been so wanting to go for so so long and we got we got that reservation and like it was just ever it was just like such a wonderful meal and of course it probably had to do with I haven't gone to a meal with just one child in a while but we had our meal and it was like not too early not too late so we were able to just enjoy we took the Skyliner over to Studios we did a mixture of like rides and shows and and again just like took it easy um and I actually think I ended up leaving because we only have one car so it was nice they were able to have some alone time and I went back and got Peter and the big kids and then we returned for Fantasmic which Lauren had never done and you mean neither had Lucy and so and then I mean Fantasmic was just like the cherry on top of that night um I'm trying to think of like what else made that like the day so special but I don't know it was just like having such a delicious meal and then going to the park and we oh so we went on Slinky Dog we saw the line it said an hour and we waited a half hour so again there's a little bit of luck a little bit of pixie dust on our side but we just like took opportunities and wow it was a wonderful time um the next day they left but we me and the boys went to their resort to have breakfast with them um when James was at school and again just like we got the Quick Service sonat breakfast and it's so good it's like like we just had like we just took these little opportunities to see each other and to have like not necessarily like need reservations but to just like enjoy like some of the best of the best that Disney has in a short period of time they enjoyed the pool and then I drove them to the airport and that was like our little weekend that like filled our cups so much and so I just wanted to share because I feel like sometimes it's intimidating to like go to Disney and feel like you have to do it all and I know we have this privilege of living here and visiting even a lot as like like when we were younger but I just wanted to like share how much magic we were able to have without stressing and truly not like I mean who am I say go to Disney World and not go to Epcot like that's a that's not typically something I would do but I just feel like you could kind of like take this framework of like resort Disney Springs full Park Day breakfast reservation and like half Park day like with a little cherry on top like I happily ever after even like from a resort um like something you know nighttime little cherry on top and then a relaxing Resort morning like it just having one goal a day I don't know we were able to really just have a really wonderful time and it would have been fun if I was vlogging hopefully I'll be able to put some stuff on the side um but yeah I just feel like even on days like today where like chaos rains that like even if I lived in Chicago like I might be decompressing at the end of the day like thinking about Disney or planning like sometimes like planning trips to Disney is like half the fun and so I just thought after I finished the Vlog and I have to go downstairs and do whatever dishes I I know I need to load the dishwasher and like start I'm going to like pack somewhat of the bags for tomorrow because it's Peter's birthday and like we're going to be go go go um that I could like decompress and talk about obviously stuff that I love so much and I hope that you would enjoy it too and hopefully I have like I said cute stuff to share from that trip cuz it was really really special like kind of once in a lifetime where like them like Lucy and James at those ages just me and Lauren it being this like low pressure trip it was just wonderful it was so wonderful all righty well I'm going to go thanks for hanging out and it's 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 [Music] [Applause] [Music]