Mia is turning 13 very soon, and that means something awesome...she and I get to go on a Mom-Daughter trip! We talked about all sorts of options, and finally decided that several days having fun at Disney and Universal would be perfect. We were exactly right. We had a blast!
We actually left on Saturday afternoon and drove all the way down to Lake City. This just gave us a jump on the drive so we wouldn't be exhausted to start the trip. On Sunday morning, we ate breakfast at the Fairfield Inn and drove the remaining couple of hours to Orlando. We were excited to stay at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort which was a new one for us. We were in the Trinidad area. We both really liked this hotel. It felt a little quieter than a lot of the Disney resorts, it has the new Skyliner transportation, and the pirate room theme we picked was awesome!
Right after we dropped our things off, we pretty much turned around and took the bus over to Disney Springs. Magic Bands were on (though Mia later bought a Grogu one and switched). We were ready to get going!
We headed straight to Rainforest Cafe for lunch.
We always enjoy the food here; Mia had a cheeseburger while I enjoyed a chicken salad. It's so fun when the restaurant starts to come alive from the storms too. Such a fun way to start our adventure.
After lunch we decided to walk all around Disney Springs. Look at these amazing Lego designs!
I made Mia stop at the chocolate shop. I can't NOT go. They were so good.
Always love a visit to the big M&M store!
We visited the Marvel store, the Avengers store, the Christmas shop, the candy store, the biggest Disney merchandise store ever, tons of window shopping, and eventually we made our way back to the Lego store. This place is so neat.
Mia had saved up over $1,200 of her money for this trip. She saved birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, picked up bigger chores at the house (like pressure washing), and worked every weekend as the janitor at my office to earn this money. She did a bunch of research before our trip to know what she wanted to buy; she had a few specific items in mind, but wanted to have extra for all the fun extras she knew would be available. She was ready to start spending at Disney Springs!
We decided to have dinner at T-Rex. We were seated right next to this guy, and Mia had a lot of fun taunting him the entire meal. He seemed to give it right back which was pretty funny.
Soon, we knew it was time to head on back to the hotel. We wanted to settle in and sleep well so we would be ready to hit Disney Park #1 early the next morning.
What a great start to our trip!
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