Christmas Day At Disney

It is Christmas Day and we are renting a condo near Disney!

The drive from New York to Florida was challenging because we came down with the flu. The first phase of the flu was hell: fever, severe body aches, etc. the second phase hasn't been fun either: fatigue, nausea, aches. We are now in the third phase: a really bad cold. For me, the cold has developed into Bronchitis. I believe it has done the same for my wife, although she says it is pneumonia and suggested going to Urgent Care.  I didnt imagined we would be spending this vacation being so sick! But you know what I say? A bad day at Disney is better than a good day anywhere else.

The family abnormally slept in on Christmas morning until 11am! I got up earlier to watch the Disney parade on ABC and to make breakfast.

After opening presents, the boys played with their video games and my wife went back to sleep. I took the opportunity for my Christmas present: I went for a nice quite 5 mile walk through the Disney area vacation villa neighborhoods.

Later, we did Skype with my adult daughter in New York and got to see her open her Christmas presents. We also got the latest information about my elderly parent's battle with the flu: my mother was doing better yet my father had taken two trips to the emergency room, but was home resting for Christmas.

We hit Epcot on Christmas Day at 7pm. I have always said that the key to a great Disney vacation is planning. You have to know when various activities are, otherwise you'll spend your time wandering around and won't see anything. Well... We didn't plan y this trip so we didn't know when any of the activities were so we pretty much didn't see anything. Except the Candle Light Precessional (which was awesome), the incredible decorations in the various lands, the massive Epcot Christmas Tree, and the special holiday fireworks added to the end of the normal ones.

It was a breezy 56 degrees. Even though we had jackets on, we froze! I would have paid for this cold weather during the summer and there I was at Disney being able to see my breath because it was so cold!

Overall, this was a great Christmas!