The Happiest Place on Earth

and also the fullest.  Wow!  We did the meal plan at Disneyworld, cause it was included in our vacation package for essentially free.  Wow! Do they ever expect you to eat a lot!  We stayed at the Caribbean Beach Resort right in Disneyworld.  I think my husband has fallen on his head recently, but hey it got me in Disneyworld and then it got me an iPad, so who's complaining?  Everywhere you go at Disneyworld, you go by bus, boat or monorail.  For the four days and five nights we were there, the car never left the spot we initially parked it. 

So back to the food.  On the meal plan each person gets 1 snack, 1 walk-up meal and one sit down meal a day  At first you might think that this is a little skimpy, but don't be fooled, its far, far from skimpy.  What we ended up doing was only using 2 walk-up (quick-service) meals between the four of us.  A quick service meal includes an entree, drink and dessert.  At breakfast it becomes 2 drinks.  The serving sizes were more than generous.  This way we had our snacks left over to do with what we wanted.  The sit down meals can't be split.  The other thing to remember is book the sit down meals right away.  Some restaurants are busier than others, but if you don't book ahead, you could wander around and spend your whole time waiting.  Pick some restaurants and book em.  You're at the park for a few days, book the restaurants and work out where you'll be around it.  The food quality varies at the sit down restaurants, but there is always something that the kids will like on the menu.  The restaurant at Animal Kingdom, Tusker House served an all you can eat with a north African flavour buffet.  For the kids, a make your own PBJ station.  How can you miss?  The other highlight was the Artist Point restaurant at Disney's Wilderness Lodge.  This one uses two sit down tickets per person, but was well worth it.  We're lucky, our kids will eat almost anything, so we ordered a variety of meals and add-ons and everyone got to try.  It was really good!

We did all the other Disney stuff too.  Bestest rollercoaster: The Aerosmith ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios.  AWESOME!!

I got to sleep (Sorta) and my car went for a ride.

When my husband suggested that we drive to Florida, I had a physical response of total revulsion.  Total revulsion!  No way did I want to spend some 24 hours plus in a car over 2 to 3 days.  NOT my idea of a good time.  But then my husband said he wanted to do the Amtrak car train.  What?  We've been on more than one ferry, across Georgian Bay and across the bay of Fundy.  It's a great way to cut some time and adds a little something different to your trip.  So, I was skeptical, but he had booked Disney already and really, I don't think he'd have cared if I said no. 

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I don't really have good pictures to share, what can I say.  The service was lovely, the food great.  We got two roomettes, one for my husband and I and one for the girls.  The roomettes are small and you share washrooms.  Sleeping was a little interesting.  As I find moving and sleeping to be mutually exclusive activities, I did not sleep much.  Oh well.  In the end still way better than driving.  We left Lorton at 4 pm and arrived early in Sanford at about 8:30 the next morning.  Once the car was taken off the train, we drove about 45 minutes to Disney, checked in, dropped the car and were at Epcot by lunch.  Quick, easy and relatively painless.