When you are at Disney World there are certain things that have to be done before you can officially say that you’ve been to the happiest place on earth. You have to ride the It’s a Small World ride because it is an iconic ride, and also thinking about being a Disney employee assigned to this ride will make you appreciate your job. You have to buy your own pair of mouse ears. You have to visit Cinderella’s Castle. And you have to have a character meal, or in our case, around four dozen character meals.

Our flight to Orlando was tremendous fun, and by tremendous fun I mean I almost made a do-not-fly list. I was kidding about the no-fly list, but in truth the Wonder Woman was nearly in tears by the time the plane took off, and I was close exchanging blows with a gate agent wasn’t, so there is a decent chance that I made some sort of list. Ironically, the kids, all of whom were making their first flights, caused very little drama.