This is a very photo heavy blog post, I’m sharing the trip Brian and I took in May. We flew to Orlando to take part in the Stampin’ Up! incentive trip to Disney, but we added on an extra week before the trip to take a cruise.
*Disclaimer: Earning the incentive trip is achieved by less than 1% of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators worldwide. I’m incredibly grateful for my customers, team, subscribers, friends, and family who support me and my business!
This is the Wonder of the Seas, one of the biggest ships on the water, look how tiny the people are walking alongside! It is so big in fact there are 2 water slides, a carousel, and our favourite part of the ship the boardwalk. An open to the sky garden area with cafes.
We made 4 stops, Nassau, Cozumel, Roatan and Costa Maya. Having a balcony means sometimes you wake up to this kind of view. In fact that is the reason I love cruises so much, you unpack once, and the hotel basically moves you to different places, you are travelling without the travel!
Roatan was always going to be my favourite stop because we had booked to go to a wild life preserve to see Sloths. It was a really interesting trip, we learnt lots about the Sloths and the other wildlife in the preserve, and the baby was just too cute. But their claws look deadly, and they move sooooooo slowly.
After the cruise we took a tour of Kennedy Space centre, sadly we only had a few hours there, I could have stayed for days! I am a space geek, I love everything to do with space and I have always wanted to see Apollo – Saturn V and a space shuttle. We got to see both and boy does it make you feel small. The passion and skill and engineering involved to put those ships into space is incredible.
The picture below you can see a gentlemen in a green high vis jacket, look how tiny he is compared to Saturn V.
Then we were off to the Grand Floridian and Walt Disney World. Incentive trips are amazing, we are spoilt with amazing accommodation, treats, gifts, sneak peeks, events and information. Stampin’ Up! really knows how to make us feel special. That said I actually don’t have many pictures. It was really busy and sometimes you are just so in the moment you don’t take many pictures.
This is the Grand Flordian Resort and the view from our balcony, just off to the left was a jetty with a boat that took you directly to Magic Kingdon, and you could see the evening fireworlks from there too.
Our favourite park is Hollywood Studios, of course, because of the Star Wars area (Space Geek). The theming was incredible, the Millennium Falcon was a must see and I even met Grogu.
We also had chance to head into Oga’s Cantina, a very famous bar on the planet Batuu – Star Wars. It was fabulous, again the theming and the attention to detail was incredible.
One last photo, taken on the last night (Photo by Stacey). Stampin’ Up! bused over 400 people to Animal Kingdom after dark to go to the Pandora – World of Avatar area for a private event. We had all access to the rides, music, desserts and the chance to hang out with our friends new and old. It was a great way to end the trip.
I’ll be back soon with some more creative inspiration.
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