The Rahns Do Disney - Our pre-Christmas adventure!!
After months of planning and counting down - this mini-vacation finally arrived! I was finally going to get to experience Christmas at Disney - a bucket list item for me. Don was fully supporting this adventure to Disney World during one of the busiest weeks of the year!! I love him so much for doing Disney in December - he gets the husband of the year award!! As it turns out - it was no worse than our summer weeks and the temperatures were about 20 degrees cooler - still in the 80s during the day and 60s after dark. Soooo much fun!!
Arriving
We are finally here!!!They vacation so well together!! Love to see them getting along... |
Animal Kingdom
floating mountains in Pandora land |
Katie dragged her on! |
Hollywood Studios
ready for Star Tours - we rode it 3x |
a selfie with Chewie |
Chewie's is bigger! ;) |
got to meet Star Lord and Groot!! |
Katie's favorites!! |
found a way to meet up with Trey and Abby (our flower girl and Don's cousin from PA) |
Magic Kingdom - Mickey's Christmas Party
Finally got to Be Our Guest restaurant for dinner! |
We had the Grey stuff! |
It was delicious!! |
Monorail Tour of Resorts
Grand Floridian lobby! |
Life size Gingerbread house - all edible at Grand Floridian |
Contemporary Resort - Cinderella's castle all made of gingerbread |
Epcot
Love the decorations in World Showcase! |
girls were both so excited to meet Joy and Sadness from Inside Out! |
The Epcot Holiday storytellers were awesome!! Each country had someone come out and tell stories and traditions from that country!!
Pere Noel in France |
La Befana in Italy - the Christmas witch (good witch gives presents to kids while she is looking for Baby Jesus) |
Norway - telling the story of the mischievous Barn Santa and how he leaves presents for kids |
Frozen ride in Norway really wasn't scary - just a big dip and we were worried we were going to get wet :) |
Wilderness Lodge
Love the decorations in the Wilderness Lodge! |
Hollywood Studios - part 2
we ate dinner at Hollywood and Vine with the characters in their Christmas outfits |
ready for Buzz Lightyear ride |
Sunset Blvd light show - projected onto Tower of Terror! Very cool!! |
Look who we found:
It was very crowded and we knew lots of Loudoun County would be there - and we didn't expect to see them!!! It shows what a small world it is after all!! :)random run-in with Katie's friend Hannah and her family at Epcot |
random run in with Carleigh's friend Celine and her family |
sort of random meet up with Paula - one of Laura's colleagues from LCPS |