Disney World’s 2013 Princess Half Marathon recap

I should have just saved this until tomorrow then it would have been a 7 day anniversary of completing the race.  I didn’t get a PR…didn’t even stay close to my existing PR.  I even gained a minute from my pooty performance at the Tinkerbell Half this January.  BLEAH!  Guess I need some motivation –

You gotta love the creativity behind those eCards.  Not sure if I totally need to have the bloody knife – the clown alone would freak me enough to make my legs keep moving while my brain kept telling them to slow down.  I did get my Coast to Coast medal at the end, pretty dang cool.

I promised you all a photo montage of the race and our family trip to Florida – so here it is.  Enjoy – we sure did.  🙂

This was the first trip to Disneyworld for 13yo and 11yo.  Sometimes it was hard to figure out if they were having a good time or not.  Teen & Pre-teen boys are on their own communication wave length.  HunBun gets more out of 13yo than I can…11yo likes to talk about randomness all the time so I have the patience to figure my way through and out of conversations with him.  😀

13yo’s favorite park was Epcot.  He loved the countries and Living with the Land.  He wants to be a scientist of some sort when he grows up.  I keep reminding him that Disney has really cool intern opportunities, so maybe when he’s old enough he’ll get into Disney (so I can reap all the benefits of 13yo being a future employee – WHEEE!)

11yo’s favorite park was Animal Kingdom and Epcot too.  They both loved visiting all the countries – although we didn’t get to all of them even with being at the parks for 5 days.  Weird.

We spent a day and a half at the Magic Kingdom.  There is a lot of similarity between Disneyland in California and the MK in Florida.  We do like the Haunted Mansion better in MK – the entrance is super cool and we totally loved the Escher-esque stairwells.  We took the boys to the Hall of Presidents – HunBun and I think that’s a great “ride” that has a great place to wait when you’re trying to escape the parade crowds.

Yes.  That’s me and the 13yo at MK.  Sometimes I can’t even believe how tall he is.  I have to remind myself he’s still my baby.  🙂

It was a great mini-vacation for us.  If you go to Disney World be sure to download the Disney My Experience app for your phone or iPad (although I think lugging an iPad around would be annoying after a while).  It’s like a lot of apps where you can see ride wait times and places to eat – the bonus is that if you sign in you can make dining reservations.  It was really helpful since the first time we tried to eat in France (Epcot) we were told we needed a reservation – DOH!  So I used the app and got us a reservation for the next night, much to 13yo’s great satisfaction.

Anyhoo…that’s about it for our trip and my race.

See ya later…

Cathy

 

Why so quiet around here?

So it’s been dead quiet on this bloggedy blog because the whole family was in Disneyland for their Half-Marathon weekend! Wahoo-ey!!!!

I’ve got a bunch of photos to load up for sharing. I haven’t entirely got the hang of mobile posting so I may need to read a primer of some sort. I also don’t fully understand all the fizzy whiz-bangedyness of the iPad (I am using for this post now) so if I want this bloggedy blog to be what I know it can be I gotta get up on it.

Enough moaning and groaning right?!? Think of this as a wet-your-whistle kinda post until I get on the old home PC tomorrow.

By the way, in case you were wondering, I improved my time with a new PR. Da-da-da-dah…..2:11:25 (according to Xact event alerts in my in-bin). Some room for improvement to get to my goal of 2:00, but overall totally stoked I did that well after 3 very early mornings and 2 full days in the parks.

So today is a REST day…it was yet another early wake up for the 6 hour drive home (with a stop at Anderson’s Pea Soup in Santa Nella – best apricot pancake syrup – for brekkie with HunBun, 12yo and 10yo). Catching up on emails, DVR tv and vacation laundry.

See ya tomorrow!

Cathy