Horse,Duck and Turtles First ever Disney Vacation

[Butterflies31]

Hi My name is Chrissy and this is Our family...


This is me..http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb183/GraceIsNeverAlone/me.jpg

Im a mother of 3 beautiful girls been married to the best husband in the world for almost 14 years and I'm only 31. It was a amazing 14 years, despite only 1 thing, a Honey moon. I know its kind of like a fairy tale. Young lady gets married huge wedding, massive cake and gifts and well a nice trip to some random island. (YEAH RIGHT) Sounds nice doesn't it but that was no where near what happen to me.. Me and my husband Joe met while I was 17, Our Parents knew nothing of this, we kept it a secret because we where from different sides of the tracks. I was raised in a small town and he was raised in a big city. Joe's mother struggled to make ends meet, she was a single parent with 4 kids in the 70's it was not very easy for her she lived on welfare because she became disabled from high sugar and at a very young age Joe being the oldest male had to go out and get a job to take care of his family. Now me I was raised in a family where both my mom and dad worked they had a rough time getting along so they divorced. I was about 7 when I went to Disney World for the 1st time. So I had an average life untill I met Joe. We had this odd like love at first sight kind of thing, it was cute we met and then two days later I moved in with him. :scared1: I know its quite a shocker. my mother was so mad and my father even madder, but the amazing thing was we where in love and no one could change that. Needless to say 3 weeks later we got married. And we have been married and as in Love for almost 14 years now. So we realy had no wedding or honey moon. So this Princess want's to take her Prince Charming to Disney World for some Magic......


This is My Charming Husband Joe
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About 2 years Later we welcomed Our 1st daughter into the world
We call Her Horse Because she loves Horses

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And then 18 months Later we had our little angle We call her Turtle Because she Loves Turtles

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And Last but not Least 3 years Later we had Our baby we call her Ducky For her Love Of Ducks

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And Thats my family

And This is Our

FIRST DISNEY VACATION


We will be Leaving from NYC on Amtrak Feb 28,2010 - To Orlando Florida Arriving on March 1st Spending 5 Days in Disney World. We are Staying at The Port Orleans Riverside.

And I will Keep Going with my Post Trip Report, Just wanted to tell You all a little about our family.

[tttessa]

Hiya Chrissy (fellow Worrier here) ,

you have a lovely family, am looking forward to finding out how you all like WDW on your first trip.

Tessa:goodvibes

[MAGICFOR2]

Hi Chrissy! Great Start! I love meeting your family. Your story is kind of similar to mine, only I dated my DH for 2 years before we were married - but the "different" growing up styles, love at first sight - been married for 30 years are the same! I'm looking forward to reading about your plans! When you come back, you can have a moderator move your thread to the TR board, or you can link and start a new one and we'll follow you over there!

Looking forward to more! popcorn::

[lshaw6]

Hi Chrissy,

Wow, you guys must be super exicted about your first trip to Disney!!! I bet it is the topic of most conversations around your house just like it is around ours when we are planning one. I love that turtle made out of cupcakes! The nicknames for your girls are too cute. I hope you all have a fabulous trip and I can't wait to read more. :)

Lisa

[Butterflies31]

Epcot Day 1


First Stop... Fast Passes For Sorrin

Then we plan to roam around freely for some hours
We only plan to accomplish a few things our 1st day

#1 Relax and just soak up the atmosphere..
#2 Let the kids be our tour guides
#3 Enjoy Family time and our kids

Grab some Lunch!!

Then we plan on going to the Kodak what if labs

Then off to Imagination Pavillion

Honey I shrunk the Audience

Then The seas with nemo and Friends

We have reservations for The Coral Reef For dinner..

After Dinner we will be off to Illuminations

Then Port Orleans Home bound we will Go..

Those are our Plans for Our 1st Day...

[Butterflies31]

Day #2

Magic Kingdom

Make it there in time rope drop

Head to Areial's Grotto for a meeting

Then Head off to ride the rides

3pm Dream come true Parade

4:00 Dinner at Crystal Palace With Pooh and friends

Then back to the rides until the Fire works..

Then Off to Our magical Horse drawn Cariage ride

And Then Back to The POR

[Butterflies31]

Day #3

Hollywood Studios

This Day Our Plan is Go with The flow See what we can

3pm Block Party Bash...

5pm Dinner At Hollywood and Vine

Then Off to The Magic Kingdom For some fun with Mickey

Watch Spectro Magic And

Then back to Our Hotel Pool For a quick Swim and bed

[Butterflies31]

Animal Kingdom!!

Our Goal for this day is to Allow The Kids to Lead Us on their planed Voyage..

Kilimanjaro Safaris
Kali River Rapids
Rafikis Planet Watch
Affection Section
Habitat Habitat

Then 4pm Dinner at Tuskers House


From 5pm -- 10pm
Momma's Shopping Night
Down Town Disney!!!

Hopefully We will make it back in time to take a quick dip in the pool!!

[reyasmommy]

Your plans look great..... Only a few more days, you must be excited!

We'll be arriving the day you're leaving I believe.

You must have your hands full with 3 girls.....bet it's a ton of fun though. :thumbsup2

[Butterflies31]

OUR LAST DAY!!!


Magic Kingdom
9 am -- 5pm

Just have as much fun as we can
and take plenty of Pics

6pm Epcot

First place we are heading is World Showcase
Make our way around to Norway


Dinner at Akershurs Royal Banquet hall For Story Book Dinning with The Princesses!!

Then its off to The other Countries

we have the Park untill 12pm :)

Then off to POR for Bed and rest...


Day 6

Travel day 21 hours Back Home!!!!

[tttessa]

Hiya,

sounds good - loads of time for going with the flow...... my type of holiday.

At Epcot we LOVED Soarin - best ride ever..... you have also just GOT to do Crushes Turtle Talk - it is sooooooooooooooo funny!!

Have fun - take lots of pics too!!

Tessa

[Butterflies31]

We are Doing The Happy Dance!!! 3 Days Left!!! :banana::banana::banana:

[lshaw6]

We are Doing The Happy Dance!!! 3 Days Left!!! :banana::banana::banana:

You're Almost There!!! Yes, please do take lots of pics so we can see them when you get back! Your plans sound great. The key is indeed to relax and enjoy it. :banana: You guys have a good food court at POR. Their turkey dinner is my daughter's favorite. :)

Lisa

[Butterflies31]

Let me tell you I was so worried we have had no power for almost 2 Days.. The snow is 3 feet deep here I thought Our Vacation would be ruined.... I will take a picture and post it here later.. Thank You Lord, They turned Our electric on at midnight Last night.... :) One More Day Left!!!!

[tttessa]

Hiya -

fingers crossed it all stays ok for you..... I hate it when the power goes out!!!

Tessa

[lshaw6]

Waiting patiently to hear all about your trip. Hope all went well. popcorn::

[Butterflies31]

All I can say is AMAZING....

We had such a wonderful Trip and So many things went out of wack..
I can not believe that even a Bad Day in Disney World Is a Amazing day.....


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[lshaw6]

Oh what a cute pic! Glad to hear you had a good time. Yes, even a bad day at Disney is better than a regular day at home...lol:thumbsup2

[tttessa]

Glad you had a great time... welcome back

Tessa

[Violet Parr]

All I can say is AMAZING....

We had such a wonderful Trip and So many things went out of wack..
I can not believe that even a Bad Day in Disney World Is a Amazing day.....


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Tell us more, tell us more! :)

VP

[Butterflies31]

Ok I will Give you the Pre trip --- Pre Trip Travel report.....


We left on Sunday Morning at 5:30am From Our Home in NY...
We Hopped a cab to our 1st train station..
We arrived To our 1st Train at 6:55 am
Our Train Left for NYC at 7:05 am
We arrived in NYC at 8:35
We met this wonderful Older woman named Joan she reminded us of our grandma's. Joan waited with us for our train to Orlando.
Our Train For Orlando was Leaving at 10:14am
On our Train ride we all where so excited that we could not sleep, So as I tried to get some sleep Joe stayed up and made sure none of the passengers getting on or off the train in the middle of the night messed with our kids. "We are a bit Over Protective" But Hey ya never know...

Our 1st train Station

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My Youngest Daughter waiting for the train

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My Husband spending some time with my middle daughter Turtle coloring

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My Youngest "Ducky" Sleeping finaly!!
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On The second Train To Orlando Leaving Penn Station was quite an experience. We met up with another family The Daughter was The same age as my oldest and Their Youngest son was the same age as my middle daughter. They had some fun and played on those Nintendo DS games.
This kept our 3 Lovley ladies from choking each other.. :rotfl:

That was our day of travel


More to come and details of our DVC membership soon coming

[tttessa]

Sounds great so far , can't wait for all the details...popcorn::popcorn:: sorry - no patience at all......

[Butterflies31]

We arrived in Orlando at 10:25am, our train was running a little late.


Just off The Train Turtle looks for our taxi cab
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My Husband and My Oldest Found a cute little place called Jazzy Dogs, The headed over and grabbed us something to snack on. While Turtle, Duck and I waited for Our Florida Gators Taxi..

Ducky waiting with us
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Our Taxi got there and we where off to Disney World
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We arrived at Disney's Port Orleans Riversidehttp://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb183/GraceIsNeverAlone/Disney%20World/P3010033.jpg

We entered Our room at Port Orleans Alligator Bayou This is the 1st thing we sawhttp://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb183/GraceIsNeverAlone/Disney%20World/P3010038.jpg

I was quickly in and out of the Hotel room, This was the 1st day of our hopper passes so off to Epcot for some fun it was fairly warm but to our luck the temp was about to plummet to low 60's but anything was better than 20' here in NY

The Girls where on the hunt for anything with a Mickey Head...
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At our bus stop waiting to go to Epcot
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Well that is the start of our 1st day

More to come... Sorry I have been so busy....:laundy:

[lshaw6]

Great report so far, can't wait to read the rest!

[Butterflies31]

Our 1st Day in Epcot.http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb183/GraceIsNeverAlone/P3010051.jpg


Wow its water!!
Even the most common things are made Amazing in Disney World
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The 1st Disney Characters they met..
Chip and Dale...
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More amazement with Water
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We where there for the 2010 Flower garden festival
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More Flower Garden Festival
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This was The Ladies and The Tramp...
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My oldest Loved Mexico
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[lshaw6]

Nice pics! Glad you all got to enjoy Epcot during Flower and Garden. It is such a pretty time to be there. Love the sombrero~~!

[Butterflies31]

We spent the end of our day walking in and out of shops, because my autistic daughter had some impulses to spend cash... She So sounds like Momma...

Turtle shopping for turtles

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Dinner at the Coral Reef...

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We Loved the food there.
Mahi Mahi My dinner..
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My drink Blue Tini
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My oldest daughter and husband had the Steak but funny thing was my Daughter who is 10 had a bigger Steak than my husband...

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That was the end of our 1st day....
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Sorry its taking so long
we actually leave on March 29th for another vacation..

[tttessa]

Love the pics - did you buy loads in the shops - we always intend to but then remember we have to fit it all into a suitcase....

Tessa

[lshaw6]

Hey, lucky you going on another vacation so soon! Never been to the Coral Reef, glad you showed some pics of that. It looks like you guys had a great first day! Turtle buying herself a turtle.....too cute.

[Butterflies31]

Love the pics - did you buy loads in the shops - we always intend to but then remember we have to fit it all into a suitcase....

Tessa

We did lots of shopping but ended up with like um $200.00 in pins and then did pin trading but it was fun and well worth it.. now only if I can threw this so you all can see the rest lol

[Butterflies31]

This was one of my favorite days of our trip... We had a easy going kinda go with the flow trip. So I will be showing you many pics...


First we met Daisy Duck
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They where so excited
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We met The Fairy Godmother
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Ducky was the only brave one to meet the evil step sisters and step mother
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They where waiting patiently to meet Ariel, In her fishy form...
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This was such a treat because Ariel was so nice and took her time talking to us..
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We wanted to cage up those wild animals :)
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Ducky Loved these guys
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They where in a whole new world with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine
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My oldest (Horse) Loved Stich sooooo much just wait and see..
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Time for Lunch!!
The best Quick service ever!!
Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe
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Tea Cup Fun!!!!
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FACE PAINTING A MUST....With a little ducky fun....

Ducky Becoming a duck
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The Finished Product...
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After that we went around Toon town and ended back at the Crystal Palace for our dinner... awesome time we had..
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Every Place we went we found the most difficult questions to ask, we even asked how high the top of the crystal palace is... They told us about 35-38 feet high.. but it took a phone call to to the higher up's to find out..

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More fun with pooh and friends...
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As the evening progressed the hiccup's started
#1 Rude people from other countries cutting in lines...
#2 pushy adults shoving their kids in front of people
#3 Black Friday atmosphere (every one rushing for no reason)

Then it was time for Wishes!!! But to windy for Tink to Fly
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A quick look at the Castle and the little one yells I GOTTA PEE!!!
Great now we must loose our seat and run for the potty because they all have to go now..

HICCUP #4 This One Hurt!!!
A Lady Rushing out of Magic Kingdom Ran full force into me using her kids as a barrier to push threw people, she hit me and my HOT HOT HOT Coffee spilled down my shirt burning me... OUCH!!
So Then It was time to "shake it off" so the kids can have fun.. Back to find a seat for Wishes....

This was as close as we got but better than nothing.. I was planning to9 make it back to Wishes another night so I could see Tinkerbell fly..
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And that was our day...
We Headed back to Port Orleans Riverside and took a dip in the pool the kids fell asleep in lounge chairs and me and hubby hung out in the hot tub for a hour, It was a calming end to a wild night...

More to come.....

[Butterflies31]

this was a year ago at our local riverfront


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[lshaw6]

Yikes! Hot coffee spilled on you must have hurt like the devil. Glad you were able to shake it off and enjoy the fireworks. Unfortunately there are plenty of rude people at DW, I have learned that is to be expected. It makes you wonder how people get so ignorant and ill-mannered. The adults can be worse than the kids sometimes. Atleast you had a relaxing end to your evening. Love all the pics, it's so nice to see everyone having fun while you are reading the trip report.:)