Guest Author Sunday
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Guest Author Autumn Barnes
This week Autumn gives us some great tips about how to get the most out of your trip Walt Disney World when traveling with a child with special needs.
Traveling to Walt Disney World with a Special Needs Individual pt 2.
A few weeks ago, I wrote
about what I had learned in preparing to travel to Disney World with a special
needs individual, and how this would be my husband and I’s first trip to the
House of Mouse with a child. Today I am writing to tell you what we learned by
experience, and if we survived.
Let’s start with the surviving part. Yes, we did, and to be honest our little friend “E” was great and I think Drew and I may be spoiled by this, because now we will assume ALL kids who go to WDW with us will be such fun, well behaved, mellow travel companions. “E” unlike me is a morning person, so he was usually up and ready to go before I was in the morning. What we started doing at character meets was Drew and I would go first and just clue in the Princess or character that “E” was non-verbal, but this did NOT stop him from trying to kidnap Peter Pan. Yes, you read this right, the three-year old grabbed Peter by the hand at the “spindle” heading into Adventureland and took him for a walk all the way to the Crystal Palace. This by the way is one of those moments where I have to give HUGE props to the cast members because Peter just went with it crowing and talking away to “E” about becoming a lost boy etc., and his “handler” just sat and laughed with the rest of us. The longest line we really stood in was for the Little Mermaid ride. Yes! We were there for the first weekend they opened it for dress rehearsal and you have NO idea how wonderfully excited I was.
