Travel with the Whitakers

Hello everyone! It has been two weeks since we disembarked from the new Disney Wonder. Our cruise was AMAZING! We figured that since we just finished talking about our cruise on the Magic before we left, that we could wait a little while to tell you all about our most recent cruise. So, that means we’ll be talking about Disney World and Disneyland for at least a few weeks. We’ll have lots of new Disney World information to talk about soon as well! We have 20 days from today until we’re back at Disney World for an 11 day Magical trip! Now onto the blog post… A trip to the Walt Disney World Resort is all about entering into a different world. Animal Kingdom is a world of nature and animal. At Hollywood Studios you enter into the movies. At Epcot you can experience the past, present and future! As you cross into Magic Kingdom you enter into a world of fantasy! Everyone can enjoy Disney World, but to truly embrace the experience – to be sucked into a new world as you enter a new l

One of the coolest parts of a Disney vacation is getting to meet your favorite Disney characters in real life! It’s great for kids, but it also great for kids at heart as well. Before Christian was born we got our pictures taken with plenty of characters. Now, though it’s about Christian, or all of us being in photos with characters. Christian loves them all, especially a certain mouse. At the Disney Parks and on the cruise ships characters are everywhere! For the purpose of this post, though, we’re going to talk about Disney World. There are some characters, like Baymax, Tiana and Pocahontas that you can only meet in one location, which normally makes the wait times for these meet and greets longer than for others. On the other side of the spectrum, there are some characters, like Mickey and Winne the Pooh that you can meet in multiple locations. These can still have lengthy wait times on occasion, though. If you want to meet your, or your child’s, favorite characters without