Travel Photo Memories Before the Digital Age

We may be unable to travel right now, but we can still dream of future traveling and look back on our past travel memories! There are so many benefits to looking back on past travel memories. Seeing pictures from these past trips can transport you back to that time of your life and all the happy moments from that trip. The one thing we all need right now to keep us sane is to remember the happy times in life spend with family and friends.

With the smart phones of today, we are all used to the instant gratification of the digital photo. If we don’t like the photo, no big deal, we just retake it. We can then immediately upload it to apps such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so everyone can see our travel photos in real time while we are on vacation. We can even use filters to enhance our photos.

But this wasn’t the case not too long ago. Let’s take a look back to how we documented our travel memories before the digital age.

Now everyone is taking pictures every day of their life. In the past though, pictures normally were just taken during special moments such as vacations, holidays, weddings, graduations and other family or friend get togethers. It required making sure you had your camera with you, which was a bulky thing to carry around, and also enough film for the amount of pictures that you wanted to take.

We would take each photo in hopes that it would come out good when we got the film developed days or weeks later. We had to be worried about whether the lighting was good, if everyone was looking at the camera, if everyone’s eyes were open and crazy things like, will anyone’s eyes be red from the flash when this is developed.

There was an excitement in getting the photos developed and seeing how they came out, sometimes I miss that moment of looking forward to seeing the photos after a trip. It was always such a big surprise when photos came out great! And there were many laughable moments of photos that didn’t come out so great. Definitely many more candid shots that we can all look back on now and laugh about them as a fun, happy memory.

Many of us would then display these photos in a photo album or keep them in a box. We would either write on the back of the photo or in the album what the photo was of and when it was taken.

These albums are great to look back on and see such old photos. But it ends up being somewhat sad as the photos and pages of the photo albums end up becoming discolored which can take away from the beauty of the memory just a little bit.

These older photos are so sacred, they are our only copy of that memory other than the ones in our mind. There is no copy saved on the cloud always available to us. If we lose these copies, they are gone forever! We must keep these photos safe and remember to look back on them and all the fun memories behind them.

How did you used to keep your travel photos back before the digital age?

Margaritas of Disney

Whether it’s Cinco de Mayo, National Margarita Day or just any old day, it’s always a good time for a margarita at Disney World. Let’s talk about some of my favorite places at Disney World to enjoy a margarita!

While most people think of Disney as a place for kids, it’s definitely a place for both young and old. And there is no better way to enjoy a warm day in the parks than with a delicious margarita!

Margaritas are one of my favorite drinks and as luck would have it National Margarita day falls in February right when I’m normally at Disney World for the Princess Half Marathon weekend. So I’ve definitely enjoyed quite a few margaritas at Disney. Here are some of my favorite places to get a Margarita both in and out of the parks.

When visiting Disney Springs, head over to Dockside Margaritas! It’s located on the water in the Marketplace section. They havea variety of margaritas available including my favorite the Sunset Margarita which is made with orange juice, it’s very refreshing on a warm day. There is a beautiful outdoor seating area and during certain times of the day they have live music.

Looking to have a margarita at dinner outside the parks, head over to Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. This Mexican style resort is the great place to have a margarita. Good dinner choices are the Maya Grill, Toledo and the three Bridges Bar & Grill.

If you’re wanting to have a drink before your dinner reservation, the outdoor Laguna Bar is a great place to enjoy a margarita before dinner.

If you happen to be staying at the resort and are spending time by the pool, grab a frozen margarita at the pool bar, Siestas Cantina. There’s nothing more refreshing when laying in the sun than a frozen beverage.

One of the greatest places to enjoy a tropical cocktail in Disney World is located at the Polynesian Resort, Trader Sams!

The main bar, Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto is a beautiful tiki bar that is wildly popular. It can fill up really quick and often the wait to get in can be an hour or more.

If you can’t get in there, another option is the outdoor tiki bar, Trader Sam’s Tiki Terrace. This is first come first serve tables but there is also a walk up bar and space to stand and enjoy a drink.

They have multiple tropical drink options including the Rosita’s Margarita! Definitely a great place to enjoy the warm Florida sunshine while sipping on a delicious margarita.

Heading into the parks? There are plenty of options to grab a margarita in between rides! At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, head over to the Hollywood Brown Derby Lounge and grab a Margarita Flight. This includes a Classic, Mango and Pomegranate margarita. They are all delicious. This February on National Margarita Day I celebrated by having one of these flights and it was delicious! Since then, this has been taken off the menu online, but hopefully that is temporary and they will put it back on the menu because every margarita lover needs to try this flight!

The best place in Disney to grab a margarita is definitely Epcot! I mean you can go to Mexico and get a margarita when in Epcot.

But have you ever ventured over to Italy to have a margarita? The Italian Margarita is my favorite! It’s made frozen with a blend of tequila and limoncello and it just hits the spot on a warm day!

This delicious margarita is available during both the International Flower and Garden Festival and the International Food and Wine Festival. Covid-19 prevented me from going to the Flower and Garden Festival this year, so I reahopelly that the parks open up by the fall for the Food and Wine Festival so I can enjoy my favorite margarita. I’ve pretty much been dreaming of it this entire time I’ve been staying at home!

As great as the Italian Margarita is, the place to go in Epcot for a Margarita is definitely Mexico, there are so many options of places to get Margaritas there and so many different flavors to enjoy!

Grab dinner and a margarita at San Angel Inn Restaurante or Le Cantina de San Angel. Want to have dinner and a margarita while enjoying the nightly fireworks show? Book a late dinner at La Hacienda de San Angel and ask for a table near the windows. When the fireworks start, they lower the lights and play the music to the fireworks show in the restaurant, it’s a great place to check out the show.

Looking to try out the different margarita flavors, head over to La Cava del Tequila. They have some great flavors such as Jalapeno, Avocado, Passion Fruit, Cucumber and Minty Pineapple.

Choza de Margarita is a great place to grab a margarita to go. They have both on the rocks and frozen margaritas available.

My favorite frozen margarita is the Fiesta Margarita. It’s a combination of Strawberry, classic and mango margaritas and it’s delicious!

Grab a margarita with friends and walk around the world showcase!

Looking for some entertainment while drinking your margarita? Throughout the day, there is live Mexican music outside the gift shop and it’s a great place to close your eyes and feel like you are right in Mexico.

And of course my favorite thing to do while in Mexico is to get a photo with Mexican Donald Duck, definitely don’t pass this up 🙂

Maybe next year some of you can celebrate Cinco de Mayo or National Margarita Day in Disney World and now you know the many locations you can find a great margarita! Do you have other places to add to the list?

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Louisville – Derby City

The advantage to setting a goal to run in all 50 states is that you definitely get to travel to places that you previously never thought of visiting before.

When looking at races in Kentucky, I saw there was one that ran through Churchill Downs and knew that was definitely a bucket list race. So I signed up for the Kentucky Derby Mini Marathon in 2019.

I didn’t know what to expect when booking my trip, so I booked a fairly short trip where I would fly in on Friday morning, run the race on Saturday morning and fly out Saturday night, boy do I wish I had booked a longer trip!

I arrived that Friday morning on an early flight and headed to my hotel to freshen up and then got an uber over to the most famous location in Louisville, Churchill Downs. I’m not a horse racing fan and have never even watched the Kentucky Derby but knew it was definitely the place to visit in Louisville and I’m so glad I did.

When I arrived at the Churchill Downs. I purchased a ticket to the museum and joined one of the walking tours of the racetrack. I went from someone who had never watched the Derby before someone who was very intrigued with the history of the race and started dreaming of attending one some year.

It was wonderful to get up close to the track, you could just envision the horses running by at such a fast speed. And the history learned about the race was amazing. I had no idea that only three year old Thoroughbreds were allowed in the Derby. And most jockeys are on average 5 feet tall, yet there have only been 6 female jockeys in the Kentucky Derby.

After the tour, I headed into the museum to learn more about the history of the race and check out the interesting exhibits.

There was a lot to see in the museum, from the history of the race to the winning horses and jockeys and trophies from past races. It was all very informative and interesting.

The museum also displayed items from other events that take place during the Derby Festival. The Derby Festival runs for 2 weeks before the Derby which is held the first Saturday in May each year. Some of the festival events include Thunder Over Louisville which is the largest annual fireworks display in North America, Great Balloon Race, Great Steamboat Race, The Pegasus Parade which is one of the larges parades in the United States and the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon and minimarathon.

The whole city takes part in these events and many people from around the country head to Louisville to enjoy this exciting time in the city.

On the Saturday morning, the Marathon and minimarathon took place. The start line was in front of Louisville Slugger Field which is home to the Louisville Bats, AAA affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.

This was one of my favorite half marathons and is my current half marathon PR. I beat my last PR, which stood for 5 years by 3 solid minutes. The weather was perfect for a race and the crowd support was amazing!

The race went through Downtown Louisville and then through Old Louisville by the beautiful Victorian style homes and then over to the highlight of the course, Churchill Downs.

I would equate running thru Churchill Downs to running thru Times Square and dare I say, down Main Street USA in Disney World. It was so much fun and gave me so much energy which probably helped contribute to the PR.

We ran on the inside track while there were horses and jockeys getting some practice laps in on the main track. It was so exciting to watch that while running. And the signs while running into and out of the stadium had some clever sayings, such as “Run like a Thoroughbred”, “Run Now, Julep Later” and “This would be so much easier on a horse”

As I was running out of the race track I came across another runner who was doing a facebook live video of the race and I was so caught up in the moment, that even though I very much dislike video, I made sure to get right in that video saying I was from Boston. The things the excitement of a race will do.

There is so much else to see in Louisville other than Churchill Downs. The Louisville Slugger is made in Louisville and there is a museum in its honor. On the road leading up the street to the museum, there are statues of bats and plaques of some of the best hitters in the game of baseball. There is also a museum for Louisville native, Muhammad Ali. For those looking for good restaurants and nightlife, head to 4th St. Live in downtown. Even just walking downtown and taking in views of the Ohio River or ride on a riverboat down the river are fun things to do.

With so many things to see and do I will definitely head back to Louisville some day and highly recommend it to others. If you are trying to run in all 50 states, definitely add this race to your list.

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Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon means so much to the City of Boston. It’s a sign of the true beginning of spring weather after long, cold snowy winter. It’s the start of the April school vacation week in Massachusetts and it’s also held on Patriots Day which is a holiday only celebrated in Massachusetts and Maine. From the start in Hopkinton to the finish in Copley Square, the route is lined with people cheering on the runners and enjoying the spring weather.

The first Boston Marathon took place on April 19, 1897 after the US Olympic team manager saw the marathon in the Olympics and wanted to bring the spirit of that race to the city of Boston. There were 15 runners in the race and the winner had a finishing time of 2:55:10, which is almost an hour slower than recent year’s winners. The fastest Boston Marathon finish time was in 2011, 2:03:02. Now the race has over 30,000 participants and is one of the hardest races to qualify for in the world. People spend years running other marathons to earn their Boston Qualifying time and then hope that they are accepted in the race. In years past, of all the qualifiers that apply for the race, sometimes upwards of 3,000 are still not able to get in. This speaks volumes to what this race means to the running community.

Did you know that back in 1897, the length of the marathon was not the 26.2 miles that we have all come to associate with a marathon? It was actually only 24.8 miles based on the distance that the Greek soldier, Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens with the news of Greece’s victory over the Persian Army. The distance changed numerous times during the first seven Olympics and was changed to 26.2 miles permanently as of the 1924 Olympics.

From 1897 to 1968, the race was held on April 19th unless the 19th fell on a Sunday, then the race was held on Monday the 20th. In 1969, the Patriots Day holiday was moved to the third Monday in April and the marathon has been held on that Monday each year since. If you do not live in Massachusetts or Maine, you may wonder, what exactly is Patriots Day? Patriots Day commemorates the first battles of the Revolutionary war which were fought in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts in 1775. You may remember from history class, the midnight ride Paul Revere took to Lexington to warn the troops that “the British are coming…” Boston is one of the oldest cities in the country and celebrates it’s history.

There are many events that take place during Marathon weekend. Since 2009, the weekend has started off with the BAA 5K on the Saturday morning. This just so happens to be my favorite race to run each year, I was so sad to not be running it on Saturday for the first time in 12 years. It’s a great race to get the marathon runners family members involved in the weekend. The first few years it was run, it started and ended at the finish line in Copley Square. As the race got more popular and the field expanded, they changed the start and finish line to the Boston Common. You still get to run through the marathon finish line which is so much fun. There’s something about making the right on Hereford, left on Boylston and then seeing that finish line. After the 5K they also host the BAA Invitational Mile for some of the top school aged runners in Massachusetts.

The Boston Red Sox play a part in the Patriots Day activities. Each year, they have their game that Monday with a start time of 11:05am. They timed it so that when the game finishes, the fans are heading out into Kenmore Square, which is a mile from the finish line, right when the bulk of the runners are running through the area.

The Boston Marathon is a great race if you can qualify for it. If not there are numerous charities that have bibs available for the race. Even if you aren’t running the marathon, visiting Boston during this time is highly recommended. The city is alive and spectating the marathon is quite the experience. From the highly competitive runners to the ones finishing their first ever marathon to the ones out there in costume having fun, it’s a great experience to cheer on all these hard working runners. Good luck to all the runners taking on the Boston Marathon this year!

Enjoy the below photos of runners on course from years past and Stay Boston Strong!

While in town for the Boston Marathon, make sure to check out these 10 Ways to Enjoy Spring in Boston.

Happy Easter!

Updated April 17, 2025

Happy Easter!

Have you ever visited Disney World during the Easter holiday?

Easter is a busy time at Disney normally. With many schools having their spring breaks scheduled around the Easter holiday, the parks get very busy.

While not as big of a celebration as Christmas, Disney does so many things to celebrate the holiday. From Easter parades, pictures with the Easter bunny, special Easter brunches and the chocolate Easter eggs on display.

For 25 years, the Bakery team at the Grand Floridian Hotel have created hand decorated Easter Eggs that are on display in the lobby each year

They spend over 3 weeks each year creating these edible works of art that weigh between 9 and 12 pounds and can stand 16 to 20 feet tall.

They truly are a work of art. I couldn’t imagine destroying these beauties to eat the chocolate.

Even the display area is edible, the eggs sit atop the Easter favorite candy, jelly beans.

They are so beautiful and definitely worth taking the time to check out. The details on each egg are amazing. This bakery team is truly talented.

While the Grand Floridian is know for their display and has had the largest display for years, many of the other Disney hotels have had smaller displays in the past years.

Below are some photos of the eggs at the Yacht Club Resort in 2021

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Easter.

Enjoy the rest of the eggs from the Grand Floridian’s 2019 display below.

Happy Easter Everyone, Stay Healthy!

Below are some of my favorite eggs from 2025:

Located at the Contemporary Resort, they had a great display of Muppets Easter Eggs

Here are some of my favorites from the Grand Floridian Resort:

I really enjoyed the eggs at the Yacht and Beach Club Resorts this year:

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DC Monuments and Memorials

One of my favorite things to do when visiting Washington DC is seeing the monuments and memorials. There are numerous monuments across the city all in memory of people and events in history. They are free to see and something people of all ages would enjoy. Two of the most visited monuments and memorials are located on either side of the National Mall, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

The Washington Monument was completed in 1884 to honor The United States first president, George Washington. At the time of it’s completion, it was the tallest building in the world at 555 feet tall. As of September 2019, the newly modernized elevator opened the monument back up to guests. The elevator takes guests up 500 feet to the observation desk where guests can see for nearly 25 miles in each direction including the White House, US Capitol ad Arlington cemetary.

Across the National Mall from the Washington Monument is my favorite monument, The Lincoln Memorial. Built to honor our 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, the memorial was completed in 1922. It’s 190 feet long, 119 feet wide and almost 100 feet in height. It includes 36 columns to represent the 36 states that made up the United States at the date of President Lincoln’s death.

The details of the Lincoln statue in the memorial are quite impressive. He looks so real, that walking by the statue, I felt as if his eyes were following me. The size of the memorial is a testament to how much bigger than life President Lincoln was and all he did for this country. Etched into the walls of the memorial is the Gettysburg Address and also Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.

The Lincoln Memorial is open 24 hours a day and highly recommend visiting it during the day and at night. You definitely get a different perspective with it lit up at night. Viewing the memorial at night is my favorite thing to do, the crowds are less and it’s a rather peaceful experience. And the view of the Washington Monument across the Mall is also beautiful.

Have you visited the memorials at night? There are a number of tours that take you around to see the memorials after dark if you don’t want to be walking around at night.

The Jefferson Memorial is located on the tidal basin. The open air white columned memorial is home to the 19 foot bronze statue in honor of the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson.

Along one of the walls of the memorial is the famous quote from the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The memorial is also open 24 hours, another beautiful place to check out after dark.

What are some of your favorite monuments and memorials and DC?

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Signs of Spring – DC Cherry Blossoms

Spring is in the air and nothing says spring like flowers blooming! With spring comes festivals, alot of which revolve around spring flowers! One of the top spring festivals on the east coast of the US is the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC.

The Cherry Blossoms normally hit their peak in late March/early April depending on the weather that winter. If it’s a warmer winter, they tend to hit thier peak earlier. This year they are predicting them to hit their peak the first week of April

In 1912, the Mayor of Tokyo gifted 3,000 cherry blossom trees to the United States as a way to celebrate the friendship between the Japanese and American people.

Most of the trees are located around the Tidal Basin and each year in March and April, hundreds of thousands of people come to admire the trees and take part in the Cherry Blossom Festival events. The events include a parade, kite festival and the popular Cherry Blossom 10-miler road race.

In 2020, they did not hold their normal Cherry Blossom Festival due to the pandemic. For 2021, they are still not having many of the major parts of the festival like the big parade or road race. They will be having more social distant and virtual events to celebrate the Cherry Blossoms. They will be having a live “bloom cam” for people to see the cherry blossoms from home, like last year. Check out the National Cherry Blossom Festival for the link to the “bloom cam” and more information on the virtual events.

These pictures are from when I ran the Cherry Blossom 10-miler back in 2016. It was past peak bloom and there were still many beautiful trees. While it’s hard to predict when the peak bloom will be, planning a trip in late March/early April some future year is definitely worth it. Even if you don’t get to see the cherry blossoms at peak bloom, there is so much to see and do in Washington DC. A visit to the Monuments and Memorials, Arlington National Cemetery, White House, US Capitol Building and the Smithsonian Museums are just a few of the great things you can do in Washington DC.

Have you ever been to the Cherry Blossom Festival? If not I highly recommend booking a trip to see them some year in the future.

Cancelling Travel During a Pandemic

We have entered unchartered waters with the entire world dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus started late last year in China and has since spread throughout the entire world. At first we all wanted to brush it off as something that would not happen to us here in the United States or that it wasn’t that serious. We wanted to continue with our lives and especially continue traveling the world. Up until this past Thursday I had still planned on going to Disney World next week to celebrate my birthday and to Punta Cana later this month to use a free trip I had won to Club Med. But then things seemed to get much more serious this week….

Travel from Europe was banned, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson tested positive, NBA NHL and MLB all suspended and delayed their seasons, events and races everywhere were cancelled or postponed, including the Boston Marathon and even Disney is closing all of their parks. This is when my attitude changed from, “I’m not letting this virus ruin my birthday fun” to “I’m fine with staying home as long as possible to protect not just me but the older and immune-compromised people around me”

The situation is so serious that most travel companies, whether they are airlines, hotels, tour companies and even Disney World are being incredibly lenient with their cancellation polices, most forgoing them completely and letting people cancel or reschedule without penalty. Some tour companies are even letting people reschedule their cancelled trip to one in 2021 or 2022. As sad as this is and how it’s affecting the travel community, they have really stepped up to help people and hopefully earn customers trust and loyalty so they will continue to travel in the future.

It might be heartbreaking to cancel a trip, you may have saved up for years for the one big trip, your kids may not understand why they can’t go see Mickey for spring break, but sometimes you just need to accept the attitude of “It is what it is”. We may be dealing with this for quite a while, but at some point life will get back to normal and hopefully we can all travel the world again and experience all the wonders it has to offer.

Stay healthy and safe everyone!

Most Fun Character Breakfast Ever!

Earlier this week while visiting Disney World for the Princess Half I went to check out the newest Disney resort, the Riviera Resort, for a delicious and fun character breakfast at Topolino’s Terrace.

The hotel grounds have a very laid back European feel to them. It seems to be the perfect resort for families that don’t want the overly children oriented feel to it but still want the high Disney standards. As someone who loves hotels, it’s exciting to be able to walk around a hotel that has only been open for a couple of months.

The hotel includes two pool areas, a lively family pool and a quieter more relaxing pool area.

There is also a pool bar, a quick service restaurant, a Parisian style café and a beautiful restaurant on the top floor of the hotel, Topolino’s Terrace.

Topolino’s Terrace offers both breakfast and dinner.

Dinner is offered nightly from 5pm-9:30pm and the menu includes delicious food inspired by restaurants in the French and Italian Riviera. Enjoy beautiful views and stunning sunsets.

Breakfast is offered from 7:30am – 11am and is one of the few character breakfasts that is not a buffet. It’s called Breakfast a la Art with Mickey and Friends and it just may be the most fun character breakfast I’ve been to.

The meal starts with a bucket of shared pastries for the table, including chocolate chip muffins, croissants and bread. They also provide honey butter, house made jam and chocolate hazelnut spread to enjoy with the pastries. They were all delicious!

The menu includes items like eggs, quiche, hash, waffles, bagels and fruit. I went with the Sour Cream Waffles which came with roasted apples, raspberries, chantilly and a delicious Orange Maple Syrup. It included a choice of meat, either bacon, ham or sausage. I’m getting hungry just looking at the picture below.

The characters were so fun, they danced along to music throughout the restaurant a few times while I was there, it was definitely a fun atmosphere! They were dressed like artists straight out of Europe and were just so cute!

Before you leave, definitely go outside to the terrace to check out the view, it’s absolutely beautiful. The terrace features comfy couches and chairs to sit and take in the atmosphere and views. This would definitely be a great place to sit and have a drink while taking in the sunset. What a great way to relax after a busy day at the parks.

Another great thing about the Riviera Resort is that it’s located on the new Skyliner which you can take to both Epcot and Hollywood Studios. This is a great way to get to the parks from the hotel. I will admit the thought of being stuck on it kind of freaks me out but it’s so convenient. I took it from Caribbean Beach Resort to Hollywood Studios and it literally took me 10 minutes from walking out the door of my hotel room to walking into the park, you can’t get to a park much quicker than that

I highly recommend going and checking out this resort and Topolino’s Terrace. I think I’m going to need to check it out for dinner during sunset sometime.

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A race fit for a Princess!

Next weekend I’ll be running my third Princess Half Marathon at Walt Disney World. I run a lot of runDisney races each year and this is by far my favorite of all of them! I’ve never been much of a girly girl, but I have always wanted to be a princess so a weekend where I can pretend I’m a princess while running through my favorite place in the world, count me in! This is definitely one of the most popular runDisney weekends and it’s one where most girls start their running journey.

The excitement of this race starts on Thursday when the expo opens. If you are determined to buy a lot of runDisney merchandise, be sure to arrive early on Thursday. The expo opens at 10am but people start lining up well before that. I try not to buy too much merchandise, so I prefer to go on Friday to miss the rush. Along with bib pickup and shopping there are also fun photo opportunities with characters and this fun one with the glass slipper!

Each year they pick a different princess as the theme of the race, this year it’s Cinderella and it coincides with the 70th anniversary of the premiere of the movie this month. They also feature different princesses for the 5K and 10K each year. They announce the princesses in advance which really helps for people that want to plan their costumes around the theme of each race. The race weekend includes a 10K and Half Marathon challenge currently called the Fairy Tale Challenge and formerly called the Glass Slipper Challenge. I may be biased, but I prefer the Glass Slipper Challenge myself.

Being that the race is held in February, the race weather varies every year. Some years it can be hot, humid Florida weather, other years it can be pretty chilly. The first time I ran this race weekend was in 2015. It might have been the coldest race weekend ever. I had left Boston where we had just received an unprecedented 7 feet of snow in a three week period hoping that I would escape the cold weather in Florida. That was not the case. I arrived at Disney on Thursday and the high that day was only 48 degrees and very windy, so the feels like temperature definitely must have been colder than that. While I was glad there was no snow on the ground, walking around Disney with temps in the 40s is just not fun. Friday morning for the 5K, it was in the low 30s with a feels like temp in the 20s, it was definitely well themed to have the 5K theme be Frozen, it was literally a Frozen 5K!

Disney loves to make you feel special, I was so excited to see that they had my name as Princess Susan on the race bib! Proof that I was a Princess for the weekend LOL

The thing that sets Princess Half Marathon weekend apart from other weekends like Wine & Dine Half Marathon weekend is that the course goes through the Magic Kingdom. There truly is something magical about running down Main Street and through Cinderella’s Castle! Have you run a race during Princess Half Marathon weekend? If not, definitely put it on your bucket list, even if you aren’t a runner, the 5K is a great race to take it all in. Enjoy the rest of my photos from my past Princess weekends. Hope to see some of you there next weekend!