Trust me. Don't do what I did.
six months prior to our trip, and waking up at 5:30 in the morning to score FastPass+ reservations 60 days before we'd arrive at the most magical vacation of my son's life.
But despite my level of commitment to planning the best Disney trip ever and the time I spent researching exactly how to do so, I made one vital error. I assumed that a Disney trip is only about the parks, and therefore, the more park time, the better, and man, was I wrong. During our trip, I scheduled us for
, starting at the Animal Kingdom, followed by the Magic Kingdom, and ending with Hollywood Studios, where I figured we'd check out Toy Story Land and a couple of other attractions.What I did not anticipate was the level of exhaustion we'd all feel after that first day — 12 straight hours spent at Animal Kingdom, where we walked more than nine miles on an 80-degree day when the park was almost at capacity. We all had a blast, but I've never been happier to see a bed in my life.
Our second day, we hobbled into the park at 9:06 a.m., rushed to It's a Small World, followed by the carousel and our FastPass at Peter Pan's Flight, and by 10 a.m., we all needed a break. My
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