BelleTinkMom
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- Jan 10, 2010
Hi Jen. Sorry about all the mishaps so far. Hope your trip was still magical. Heading over to your dining report, we are booked on the Fantasy for June 2012.
Good Morning, Jen!
Last summer we had a mishap with our GPS! It took us to the back entrance of the Magic Kingdom. Nice area - no rides and it took us about an hour to get back on track!
Hi Jen. Sorry about all the mishaps so far. Hope your trip was still magical. Heading over to your dining report, we are booked on the Fantasy for June 2012.
I'm here... I have no idea if you're done yet, I'm only on page 1. Looks like we do have a lot in common. I have a married 22 year old daughter a 19 year old son who attends college just an hour from WDW and an 8 year old daughter who LOVES Disney and now wears her Rapunzel dress regularly. Now.. back to our regularly schedule page...1....
comments: Shouldn't the gear shift be on the dashboard? It is on my van. If it was in the center, like my DD's car, it would get in the way of the VCR!
updating again: looks like you're just getting started so I'm not too late!! yeah! When I saw that map that they hotel gave you.... I had to laugh.. it looks just like the one that the Melbourne Beach Hilton gave us. The hotel clerk gave us directions to some oddly named place that she recommended for dinner. Naturally, the map is all out of scale, so we had a hard time finding it. When we did, it was a place that you had to be 21 to get in. DD8 couldn't get in, and it was all smoky anyway! Not a place to send someone with a child. The 2nd place she told us about, we could not find at all. The map was WAY off and had a turn where there was none. We finally just drove around til we found Panera! I like familiarity when away from home.
I keep telling everyone we're going to live in the Villages when we retired, winters only of course! My cousin's wife's parents live there and love it, driving around his and hers golf carts and are very active in clubs and groups. But, as a Jewish person, I know that I will eventually feel the pull of Boca!!
Good Morning, Jen!
I was up bright and early to update MY pre trip/trip reports, just to be distracted by yours!
I can so relate to the map reading issues! We now use a GPS we bring from Austria, all shock full with all the addresses we might use!
A few years back when we did not bring it we missed an exit on the freeway, left on the next one and there was NO entry to the lane back to Orlando, so we kept on driving for about 30 minutes through NOwhere until we found an Eckarts where TWO VERY friendly "natives" were able to draw us a map back to Orlando - this is how we saw the "Patriotic Horse"!
Last summer we had a mishap with our GPS! It took us to the back entrance of the Magic Kingdom. Nice area - no rides and it took us about an hour to get back on track!
Okay, got taken away there. I am glad you finally got there in the end, I would have been SO mad finding out that the price of the car was without taxes!
And I am glad you went down a day early, it would have been such a shame if you had missed the cruise because of all the mishaps!
May I add that I just LOVE your report!
Morning indeed!! I need to stop catching up on TR's...
Our GPS once took us to the Cast Member entrance to a park. I don't remember which park it was. Took a while to get back on track. Now, I just read the map and tell DH where to turn... however, I love leaving it on so I can here it tell me to turn on "Vacation Club Way"! always love that!
Residence Inn looks nice!
I love all of the space.
Loving your report so far! Claire is adorable
We've stayed at a Residence Inn a couple of times and aside from the Hampton Inn & Suites, Residence has the most comfortable beds ever.
Claire is adorable. I would have called the tape around the pool a "mishap" too.
The Residence Inn looks nice! I need to put that on my list of possible hotels for staying the night before a cruise!
Sorry about the uncomfortable sofa bed and for the comfortable bed in the master bedroom!
I love rooms that are spacey - that's why we enjoy to stay at OKW so much. Strange that they closed off the pool ...... I am with Claire on declaring it a mishap!
Can't wait for more!
(Going back to my own threads now, to answer posts and update! )
Just got caught up again. Ugggh.....what a pain in the rump that you had such a long flight delay.
The Residence Inn looks like a nice place to stay. I'm not a picky person when it comes to hotels. As long as it's clean and in a good neighborhood, I'm fine with it.
subscribing. Loving the report so far. And here I thought "mishaps" only happen to my family, nice to know we aren't the only ones.
Can't wait to read more. Thanks for sharing.
Nice job so far! Can't wait for the rest!
Sorry to hear about all the mishaps but thats great that it wasn't your cruise day and you didn't have to stress about getting there. I can't wait to hear about the cruise!
I am enjoying the trip report. Thx How do I subscribe?
Just found that you started your TR! I am going to try to keep up to date.