Sharon, Valerie, and Marcia--Thanks for the warm welcome home! I'm sorry I haven't posted my walkning results from WDW. I forgot how much work it is coming home after being gone a week, especially w/ grad school. Anyway, here are my walking results for the trip. I have no idea if this is good or not, but I do know that I did not gain any weight (in fact, I lost, but I think that was all water weight). DH and I do not walk anywhere slowly and do a pretty good job w/ crowds.
Day 1: MK - I did not wear my pedometer, as it was already evening when we arrived. We did watch Wishes and it was so good it brought tears to my eyes! That may sound crazy, but I'm not kidding!
Day 2: MK - 24,068 steps - The highlight of this day was running from BTMR to POTC just minutes before closing and being the last people to ride POTC for the day. We were the only ones on the ride and had the entire boat to ourselves--we took some great pictures because of this!
Day 3: EPCOT - 22,510 steps - Another awesome day! Nothing compares to the feeling I get when I'm on Main St., but the WS is definitely up there with that. We were beat and did not stay for Illuminations this night and only managed to finish half the countries before closing.
Day 4: MGM, MK, EPCOT, Downtown - 25,588 steps - We were all over this day. When we were finished at MGM we went to MK to eat and catch a few rides and then to EPCOT to finish the countryis and watch Illuminations and to DD for shopping! Great day!
Day 5: AK, EPCOT, MK, Downtown - 19,869 steps - AK was much more enjoyable in the 70s than it is in the summer when it's 90. We returned to EPCOT just to walk around the WS a few times and then to MK for Spectro (which we actually did watch much of b/c we went to Mickey's Philharmagic again instead).
We have the entire parade on video anyway.
Day 6: EPCOT and MK - 14,846 steps - This was a light day and an early day since we were leaving the next morning. We went to EPCOT to ride Mission Space, walk a loop around the WS, and sent some D-mail. Then we went to MK just b/c it has to be the first and last place on every trip. We rode some rides and walked around and made some purchases and returned to our resort in time for dinner.
Totals for 5 days w/ the pedometer:
Steps - 106,881
Distance - 54 miles
Calories - 4,174
Timer - 17.31 hours
Like I said, I have no idea if this is good or bad, but I'm happy with it. It does not register the tiny steps you take when you're in line and I did subtract "ride steps". Space Mountain adds 50 and BTMR adds 90! This was a great trip and difinitely has us looking forward to going back this summer and spending 11 days in the parks!
We got our picture taken w/ Sorcerer Mickey and that's the first time we've done that. We saw a lot of character that we have not seen in the past (did take a lot of pictures of them though). We did, however, take over 400 pictures!
We have this awesome new digital camera and DH went nuts! He said we need new pictures of the things we already have pictures of because it's so much better than our old one. Anyway, I have not gone through them yet, but I will be happy to post some. I'm sorry this is so long--I don't want to bore you w/ a lot of details, but it you have any questions, feel free to ask! We rode a ton of rides multple times and took pictures of all the new spots for the new ride coming to each park. Oh, and Star Trader Mickey's opened again last week; store looks great! And, it now stars Stitch, of course! Have a great day, everyone! I'll do my normal journal post later, time for a meeting. My in-laws are coming into town this evening so I don't know when it will be, but enjoy your day--TTYL!