The Good

Ok...I am still in recovery; yes you read that right, recovery. Disney can take all the zip right out of you when you get back from it! We were totally fine while we were there and even on the road home, but now that I am back, the long hours and miles upon miles of walking have taken their toll on me and I feel exhausted beyond compare.....well, I could compare but I won't, so I guess it's just good I haven't felt like this is a long time:)


Anyway on to the good!

1-The Polynesian was wonderful!!! The grounds were beautiful. The pool was great, or so they told me, I spent my time in the sand at the beach area when we went down there. Yes, the sun-lover in me just wanted to lie down and soak up the rays and so I did :) The room was nice and roomy and everyone slept fairly well each night.

2-The food...OMG-it was amazing! We took advantage of the deluxe dining plan (which I recommend because otherwise the prices can make you queasy :P ) and so we got an appetizer, main dish, dessert and non-alcoholic drink at every sit down meal!!! And at the fast food places we got a drink, main dish and dessert, plus two snacks a day!!! Needless to say we had more than enough food and even cleaned the fast food place at our hotel out of water bottles on our last day using up our snack points!

3-Food allergy awareness-they were a 100 on a scale of 1-10. At every meal the chef would come out and go over the choices with Belle and they even made special sundaes for her. Also the chef at the Kona Cafe, which was at our hotel, went above and beyond as he even got special food for us from the other restaurant there so that the chicken wing appetizer could be had by Lexi!

4-The Magic-it truly was a magical place and the girls had a fabulous time and we had a fabulous time watching them have a fabulous time...okay, okay, we enjoyed it for ourselves too :)

5-Staying healthy-no one got sick....well not sick, sick...some of us...ok, me, got motion sickness from certain rides we will not mention, but I knew that would happen and it was really my own fault for not taking some Dramamine so I picked some up after that day and all was well in K's stomach after that!

6-Most likely due to the aforementioned miles and miles of walking and in spite of the delicious and large portions of food....I lost weight!!!! Yes, you read that right~LOST weight!!!!! In fact, the girls just told me that if I don't stop losing weight I am going to disappear altogether! Which was a very nice sentiment but hardly the actual truth, but I am extremely pleased with that fact none the less.

7-People watching. It was literally a feast for this observer's eyes. You can find every body type, color of hair and skin, language spoken and a trillion other things there...and that is just in the workers!!!! But it truly is an amazing study in human nature and how we all interact and react indeed....I'm thinking of writing a paper on it ;)

So to sum up-we had fun....oodles and oodles of fun! We were also lucky enough to have some very good friends who also spent their Spring Break there too and we were able to hook up a couple of times and do some rides together and swim one day together as well. It was practically perfect in almost every way and I am thankful that I finally get to truly cross that off my bucket list.

Inevitably there were a few minor glitches...but that is for the next post :P

So I will leave you with one last thought...mostly cause it is stuck on replay in my mind but,

"It's a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of ev'ry day"

Yes, Walt, there truly is.

Blog ya later-
K