Travel with the Whitakers

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

Today we have the last post about Disney Cruise Line until after our next cruise! We’ll have a few other posts before we set sail on the all-new Disney Wonder, but this is the last of what we have to talk about from our last cruise. We’ve talked a lot about the food on the Disney Magic, but we still haven’t talked about the quick service options, yet. There are three quick service, or counter service, locations on the pool deck which are open throughout the day. We love the ability to talk up to deck 9 when we’re hungry, whether it’s for breakfast, lunch or a snack, and to just grab something. That’s right, walk up to your location of choice, let the cast member know what you would like, sit back, relax and enjoy your meal or snack. No worry about having to pay for anything, no waiting for food to arrive. The hardest thing might just be deciding which location you would like to stop by and what you would like to eat. The easy solution, get something from more than one loca