Disney World - Day 1

In spite of getting up at 5 AM, our flight went well and we arrived in Florida without mishap. We caught a bus to our cabin located at Disney's Fort Wilderness. It is a pretty little log cabin complete with full kitchen and a Murphy bed in the living room! We were told our luggage wouldn't arrive for about three hours so we ditched out carry-on luggage and headed for the bus stop for Downtown Disney.

Melissa and I were thrilled that we able to get her in at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique as a walk-in! Normally these appointments are made weeks in advance so we were so excited. Two "fairy godmothers" presented Melissa with a personalized invitation with "Princess Melissa" on the front inviting her to become a princess. She was escorted to a chair in the most girly, pinky, fancy salon you can imagine. The chandelier had a glass slipper hanging from the bottom! One of the fairy godmothers allowed Melissa to select between two colors of nail polish and six colors of eye shadow and six colors of lip gloss. They opened a little palatte of make-up and Melissa's eyes shone like the stars. That fairy godmother started doing nails and make-up while the other started on her hair.

She was allowed to choose between three or four little tiaras and two barrettes - all sparkly with rhinestones. At the end the fairy godmother doing her hair sprinkled fairy dust from her wand and said "Bibbity Bobbity Boo!" over her and we had our little princess! They gave us all the make-up, both colors of nail polish and the tiara and barrette to keep as well as the ribbon banner that says "Bibbity Bobbity Boutique". This was something Melissa will remember forever and I am so glad we got to do it!
Our little princess!~"Bibbity Bobbity BOO!"
Just outside is a statue of Melissa's favorite princess - Cinderella! Melissa and I have reservations tomorrow to eat lunch with Cinderella in her castle at the Magic Kingdom. I watched closely so I can do her hair again for that - and we brought her Cinderella dress from home for her to wear.
In the meantime...Daddy and the boys were scouting out the most gigantic of Lego stores. This dragon is in the lagoon in front of the stoor and is absolutely massive! He is made entirely of Legos!
A family walking their dogs on the side walk in front of the shop - again, made entirely of Legos! The shading on the dogs is really cool! We came back to our cabin and our luggage was here. It has rained off and on so we are a bit drippy - I had brought rain ponchos from home so we managed to at least stay dry a little, but still it was good to get in a cozy cabin and hit the beds!

Our internet connection is not good at all so I may not get to post every day but I will go ahead and post pictures from Day 2 after while.