Disney Photos -- The Grand Floridian

What was ironic about this trip was that my parents were originally going to go with us.
My mother spent quite a bit of time of the phone making the arrangements,
and they paid for a good chunk of it as well.

Then my mother got sick, and they weren't even able to come.

Anyway, my mother really wanted to stay at the Grand Floridian Resort,
so that's where we were.

Of course if it had been us planning (and completely
paying for) the trip, we would have stayed at some hotel off Disney property.
Robert even made some sort of joke that we were like the Beverly Hillbillies
staying there.

But it was very nice being able to hop on the monorail to get everywhere.


Watching the monorail go by was the main form of entertainment when we were actually
in the room. Not surprisingly, the monorail was the Big Hit of the trip for Benjamin.



There was a big Christmas tree in the lobby.
I took this picture of Robert and Rachael right before we left to go to the Princess lunch.



There was a also a big gingerbread house/candy store in the lobby.
Yes, it's made of real gingerbread, and the entire lobby smelled of ginger.

I kept telling the kids we would buy some candy there, but come to think of it,
we never did. Oops.



One night Rachael and I walked over to a part of the resort where there was a good view
of the boat light show and fireworks. That was nice, just because it was kind of different.