Downtown Disney (Day 2)

After we went to the temple we drove to Disney World. We couldn't afford to go to Disney World but we had fun with the free areas of the park. I love all things Disney so I was pretty happy. Even though we didn't get to go to the park it was still a lot of fun. We started by going to the Disney Boardwalk. Its a resort so unless you're a guest there isn't much to do but it was really pretty and I loved the way they designed it.

Next we went to Downtown Disney. This is the market place of Disney. They have some interactive rides and a theater but mostly is restaurants and shopping. We had so much fun walking around and shopping and singing along to the Disney music. Honestly, I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning and this wasn't even really Disney World!

The first place we went was the Lego store. This was Mike's favorite stop we made. It was amazing seeing all of the lego displays they had made. 

This was about $400

 We also got to visit the Disney store. We saw a lot of things we couldn't afford but also a lot of stuff we wanted. I'm a big Disney princess fan so I wanted pretty much everything. I kind of wished we had a daughter so I could live vicariously (and have an excuse to behave like a 5 year old girl) but oh well it was still fun anyway :)

Belle is my favorite :)

 Our original plan for dinner was to go to the Hard Rock Cafe since that was where we went for our 1 year anniversary. Hard Rock was in Universal Studios so we had to drive over there and when we got there we found out that it was going to be $17 just to park! We both said no way! (Disney had free parking and shuttles to take you anywhere you wanted to go) and then headed back to Disney. The only good part about the drive over was that we were by the Wizarding World of Harry Potter so we saw Hogwarts from the road :)

We ended our time in Disney by going to Planet Hollywood for dinner instead. The food was delicious and I love the atmosphere. Its so loud and fun and they have tons of stuff to look at. Even though it wasn't what we had originally planned, it was great!

Going to Disney for real is definitely on my bucket list (it was before but now I have more motivation)! I also decided we would need at least a week because we spent half a day just at downtown disney....that's without rides and without kids! This was the best day of the trip though. We were exhausted and made it back to Jacksonville around 11:30 but it was worth it.

Even though we didn't go to Disney, we wanted a souvenir to remember the trip so we picked out a puzzle. Since we both enjoy doing puzzles and Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time we picked out a 1000 piece Beauty and the Beast puzzle. It took us a week to do it after we came home but I love it!