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Garden Grove Restaurant Character Dining: Disney’s Most Underrated Dining Experience
Things around the world of Disney change quick. Like Lightening McQueen quick (#dadjoke). So, even though I consider myself pretty expert at all things Disney, over the years I’ve come to understand that my expertise lies heavily in the realm of knowing that I don’t know everything about this magical place. This means I am constantly sourcing Disney boards, Disney blogs, Disney people, and everything else Disney I can consume in my waking, non-momming hours for information. And you know what the one thing I never hear mentioned is? It’s the Garden Grove restaurant character dining. And I just don’t understand why. We’ve sort of found ourselves at the Garden…
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Disney with a Newborn: Tips for What to Pack for the Park and How to Pack It
Life with a new baby: those sweet smells, those itty bitty squeaks, those snuggles in the crook of your neck. It’s like being in a cocoon those first few months. A cocoon of newness and naps and a lost sense of time. And a cocoon of diaper bags and back packs and extra clothes and too many things that rattle. It’s bringing a pouch filled with pacifiers, one more blanket, and an extra extra pair of socks. It’s stuff you need and a whole lot of stuff you really don’t. And that’s where going to Disney with a newborn gets a little rough: balancing being prepared with being burdened by…
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Five Reasons to Seriously Consider Staying on Property when Visiting Walt Disney World
Beyond just the ease of location, what added perks come with staying on a Disney-owned property? After being off property, on property, and every where else in between, we've come up with our five favorite bonuses that come with staying at a WDW property.
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Hotel Review: Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort
The options of Disney resorts can be mind boggling, and Bay Lake Towers is one option that presents itself as a perfect base for those who plan on placing their Walt Disney world energies into Magic Kingdom.
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This Isn’t a List of the Top Things to Do in OBX
In the world of the Outer Banks (OBX), along the coast of North Carolina, I consider myself a newbie. My family and I have only been at it two glorious years. But I think it’ll be the first two years of many. But no matter how much I come, I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to give an accurate list of the Things to Do in OBX. Layout OBX is a small sliver of land, rarely more than a mile wide. The 130 mile stretch of barrier islands sprawls from the Virginia coast and continues south through four counties. The small towns and fishing villages spotting the islands…
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The Dos and Don’ts of Dining at Disney World
Food. It seems like it should be a pretty simple topic, but when traveling with kids, it’s anything but (because, you know, kids). It seems my little people are often hungry on “off times,” sleeping during “dining hours,” hating whatever it is I ordered for them (usually the only thing that would eat the day before), and wiggling about as they struggle with sitting quietly in their chairs while everyone at the table finishes. It just isn’t easy. Think it’ll be easier at dining at Disney World? Well, actually, maybe it will. Maybe it won’t. (But hopefully it will.) Because, again, you know, kids. But there are a few things…
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5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Book Your Walt Disney World Vacation (and Why You Need to Answer Them)
It's these hiccups that really end up being the stories we carry forward as a family. And it's these hiccups that helps us plan our next trip. Through the past seven years of visiting Walt Disney World a number of times a year (for any number of days, any time of year (except summer...we just don't do Florida Disney sticky, sweat-inducing summer heat)), we've figured out some questions we ask ourselves each and every time we book a new trip. Only after we've figured the answers to these questions out, do we really get to the task of actually making the magic happen.
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Hotel Review–Disney’s Boardwalk Inn and Villas, Lake Buena Vista, FL–Child Centered
While well orchestrated chaos surrounds, I can slip off into a bench and watch it swim by, content in the knowledge that my little people are fully partaking in that chaos and I don’t need to do a thing to stop it.
