Similar to the Magic Memory Monday post for this week – this pic comes from our first trip as a family of 4 in February 2009. We decided this trip to grab a cab from the Port Orleans French Quarter Resort to Sea World to check things out.
I have a whack of pictures from that day that are the back of people as they were looking at things like the turtles, the rays and the dolphins but this one is one of the good ones where the family faced the camera!
Our daughter doesn’t look too impressed at this point but a lovely smile from our son here. It was a pretty good day, although I do remember getting rained on heavily for a little while. This was the last time we had gone to Sea World though – maybe on our next trip we will think about getting there again?
Today’s Magic Memory Monday post comes from our 2009 trip to Disney World. It was our first trip as a family of 4 with our daughter having been born just a few months before. We stayed at Port Orleans French Quarter and absolutely loved the place. It provided great convenience with the ability to hop a boat down to Downtown Disney, a very good on-site pool, great places to walk around and an awesome little park for our son to play when my wife and daughter needed to rest.
The trip was in late February so by this point we had been trapped inside for a few months already by a wonderful Winnipeg winter and T was just overjoyed to be able to get out and run around like a maniac. I was just happy he could do it outside and not in the house.
The picture is a capture I got as he hopped off the playground slide and ran full tilt back to the ladder to give it another go. You can see just the sheer joy on his face – I can’t look at this picture and not smile. Wonderful.
Port Orleans Resort – as a family we have stayed there once and I stayed there once with my brother for the 2012 Disney World Marathon weekend. Both times it was at the French Quarter portion of the resort. It is just an absolutely beautiful place with lovely New Orleans influences.
We enjoy so many aspects of the resort from the cafeteria with its Mardi Gras float decorations to the tree lined walkways to the themed pool area. But really the most important thing to us with this resort is how peaceful it is. The French Quarter portion is the smallest of the Disney World resorts (at least by room numbers) and from what we have seen one of the least crowded. The reduced crowds have allowed us lots of opportunities to just wander around and see the sights, take pictures and just really relax.
This picture this week was taken one of the mornings at the French Quarter – our son (who was about 2 and a half at the time) and I were up well before my wife and 3 month daughter so we grabbed the trusty camera to go for a walk. It was a sunny morning with no wind and just a touch of a chill – it made everything crisp and clear. We wandered around a bit at the French Quarter and then wandered the walking path to the Riverside resort and got some lovely pics of the southern mansions.
On our way back I snapped the picture below as we wandered beside the lake – you can see the little fellow is pretty happy and I remember very well the peacefulness of the moment. That is definitely one of the big draws for us with Disney World – those moments of peace seem to be so easy to grab.
