If You’re Screaming that Means You’re Still Alive!” Updated x4 3/12!-The End!

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“If You’re Screaming that Means You’re Still Alive!” Disney Magic Dec 2013!

Ahhh the Christmas season! Can’t you just picture it now!? All the lights, trees and time spent with family and friends. Sounds great right?!

Well experience Christmas time in Disney World and its pretty much perfect!

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Hello and welcome friends to my 2nd trip report here on the DISboards!
If you haven’t read my 1st trip report go check it out over here!

This trip was seriously one of the best trips I think I’ve ever taken to WDW. I was seriously down in the dumps and in need of a little Disney magic before I left for this trip, and Disney definitely came through for me!

I feel like I came back a whole new person! The Disney magic really resonated with me during this trip. Even though I’m not a kid anymore, I still have dreams that I hope someday will come true. They might involve finding prince charming or buying a home instead someday being able to fly like Peter Pan, but they are still there and still deserve to be celebrated every single day! AND lets be real, it’s a dream of mine to be able to fly away to Neverland.

Anyho, enough of me blubbering and onto the introductions!

I’m Jess!

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I’ll be your storyteller, ghost host and wilderness explorer guide today! I am beyond excited to share this magical Disney trip with you!

A little about me:

I’m 24 years old and this was my 20-something trip to World. I’ve been going to Disney yearly (sometime more!) since I was 4 years old. I’ve been in love with Disney parks, movies, music, you name it since I was a child. It definitely holds a special place in my heart.


Next up are the two people responsible for my Disney obsession:

Mom

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First up is my wonderful Mother. She really is one of my very best friends and I love spending time with her! She loves Disney but not quite as much as me. She is also more of a follower not a planner. She is also responsible for this trip report title but we will get to that later!

Dad

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My wonderful Father has made it possible for us to take all of our Disney trips over the years. My Dad loves Disney for the customer service and value he feels like you can get from Disney vacations. He used to be the family planner but I’ve definitely taken over that role since I joined the DISboards haha.

So that wraps up the introductions. That’s right, this was just a trip with me and my parents! I was actually really excited about this trip because I like spending time with my parents and we are all very similar. None of like to sleep much on Disney vacations and we have the stamina to still enjoy it!

The Why?

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Here we are on our ill fated 2012 trip.

So what was the reason for this vacation you might ask?? I mean does anyone need a reason? No but we did actually have one this year! Our vacation from 2012 didn’t turn out quite as planned to this was our Do-over vacation! You can read all about that over on the pre-trip report (shameless plug : ) )

The When

December 5th-10th 2014! Which actually got extended to December 11th but more on that later too! Just in time to see Disney in all its wonder for Christmas without having to fight those holiday crowds!

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We started going to Disney in early December in 2001 and we have pretty much gone every December since. We completely fell in love with all the holiday touches.

The Where

We stayed at our home resort once again…

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The POP Century!

We booked two preferred rooms and we ended up in the 50’s section closet to Everything POP! The room location was great it was so close to everything!

I am so excited to have you all here with me as I relieve all the magic of this special trip! I tried my best to take good notes and a ton of pictures that I can’t wait to share with all of you!

I’m also going to treat this trip report as a pre-trip report for my trip in February! I’m going down to complete the Glass Slipper Challenge as part of Princess Marathon Weekend! I’m so stoked, so stay tuned for trip plans and costume planning!

Phew, now finally …

On with the show!
 
YAY you started Jess!!! Obviously I'm on board since, you know, I was there at the same time. ;)

So glad Disney got you out of the dumps AND you got to stay and extra day?? Sa-weet.

I love that you take trips with your parents. Honestly, I think that's awesome!!

Looking forward to hearing all the stories of your Christmas Do-Over!! :goodvibes
 


I always love reading about trip reports that are from during the same time as I was in the World!
 
Ah!! I’m totally in! I think we were there right around the same time, but heck if I can remember my dates! Lol.

How awesome that you got to spend time in Disney with your parents, and that you really enjoy it! Obviously, I do enjoy taking my Mom to Disney, getting to see the magic with parents is just awesome! Glass slipper challenge, ooo interesting!


 
Coming along for the ride. We were in the WORLD at the same time.
 


YAY you started Jess!!! Obviously I'm on board since, you know, I was there at the same time. ;)

So glad Disney got you out of the dumps AND you got to stay and extra day?? Sa-weet.

I love that you take trips with your parents. Honestly, I think that's awesome!!

Looking forward to hearing all the stories of your Christmas Do-Over!! :goodvibes

Thanks Rob, I'm so glad you are here!

It was such a nice surprise to get to stay an extra day!

Thanks, a lot of my friends think I'm weird but that's ok I love it!

I'm here Jess! Can't wait to read all about it! :)

Welcome! I can't wait to share all the stories with you!

I always love reading about trip reports that are from during the same time as I was in the World!

Welcome! It was such a wonderful week to be there, I couldn't get over the weather!

Ah!! I’m totally in! I think we were there right around the same time, but heck if I can remember my dates! Lol.

How awesome that you got to spend time in Disney with your parents, and that you really enjoy it! Obviously, I do enjoy taking my Mom to Disney, getting to see the magic with parents is just awesome! Glass slipper challenge, ooo interesting!



Welcome!

I love going with them, they are such good travel buddies.

Hopefully, the Glass Slipper will be good, I'm a little nervous for it to be honest!

Coming along for the ride. We were in the WORLD at the same time.

Welcome! It was a wonderful time to be there!​
 
Thursday December 5th 2013
We’re going to Disney!


Hello everyone! Let’s get this trip report started!

Let’s start out with everyone’s favorite day, travel day! I know not the most exciting to read about but definitely the most exciting to experience. After so much anticipation its finally time to go!

I woke up around 6am that morning and got moving. If you read my trip report you remember I did have to work for a couple hours before leaving, but I didn’t even care I was going to Disney later!

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Baxter knew something was up when I was getting ready, he normally never sits that close to the hair dryer. He knew I was leaving him.

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I packed up what was left of my stuff and got it all ready for my parents to pick up on their way to the airport. I was off to do a site inspection at the airport so I figured I just meet them there.

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I walked out to my car that morning to discover a lovely layer of frost. Ewww. I was so happy to be off to Florida and the 80’s soon!

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Can you spot the sad puppy in the window??

So went off to the site for a couple hours and we actually finished up before I needed to be at the airport so I went and met my parents at my house and we all went to the airport together.

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The airport was all decked out for the holidays!

We quickly checked our luggage and headed to security.

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Reasons I love my home airport: No security lines ever!

We actually got chosen to go thru the express line so we didn’t even have to take our shoes or jackets off, score!

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We ended up at the gate early since dropping our checked luggage and security took two seconds.

We had a connection in Baltimore before continuing onto Orlando. While we were waiting for the plane the gate agent told us there was a lot of fog in Baltimore so they wanted to get us in route ASAP. In other words, get on, sit down and shut up haha.

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Once our plane showed up, everyone did just that. And my Mom and I got the exit row with only two seats, SCORE! Sorry Dad you are on your own haha.

The flight to Baltimore was uneventful and once we landed it was SUNNY! SCORE! We were so happy we knew we’d make it out of there!

Before we knew it we were on our next flight! We all sat in the same row this leg since the flight was full. We didn’t want to be those jerks that take up 3 aisle seats haha.

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Since we knew were finally on our way to Florida my Mom and I enjoyed a couple glasses of wine on our next leg. It was around 2pm and the Steward got quite a kick out of us wanting wine. It was crisp and delicious.

Right before we landed someone in the row behind us asked the little girl in that row where she was going. She exclaimed:

“ We’re going to Disney World, we’re going to see castles and Princesses. ITS GONNA BE GREAT!”

Everyone surrounding us thought it was the cutest thing including us. It definitely put us in the Disney mood!

THEN!

When we landed one of the Stewards sang Zip a dee doo Dah inserting some welcome to Orlando and thanks for flying with us lyrics. AWWW I wish I could remember more of it but it was so perfect and so funny. You could literally feel the Disney magic in the plane. Thank you SW for being AWESOME. And thank you Steward for loving your job!

After that flight I could tell this was going to be a great trip!

We quickly got off the plane and headed to the Fake-o-rail

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We landed a few minutes early at 4:50pm and it was still light out! Aww it’s the little things.

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I was so excited to see that Florida sun!

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Look at the Palm trees past Mum!

Somehow we literally missed every Disney thing in the airport. I have no idea which side we came in but I feel like one second we were getting off the Fake-o-rail and the next we were at baggage claim.

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I did snap a picture of this though!

We grabbed our luggage and headed over to get our rental car. We went to take the elevator down to ground transportation from baggage claim and my Mom walks right up to the elevator and presses the light that indicates which direction its traveling thinking it was the call button.

I cracked up! She was like why isn’t this working. An older couple next to us was looking at her like she was crazy and I was laughing hysterically. Apparently she was still feeling the wine. Yay vacation!

After pressing the correct button to call the elevator we made it down to ground transportation. Luckily my Dad’s a Dollar whatever vip program they have so we didn’t have to wait in the horrendous line.

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Palm trees!

The most adorable little old man checked us in. He told us he didn’t have any standards left but that we could chose whatever we wanted from the Full Size Row. Sweet!

After we started walking away, he ran after us and said do you want an SUV? Umm yes please! No Grandpa car for Dad this year!

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Thank you Dollar for the sweet upgrade!

We loaded up and hit the road, we were on our way to Disney World!

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I literally couldn’t stop taking sunset pictures.

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Finally we were seeing this wonderful sight!!

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And not long after this sight! We were home!

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You are so welcome for those wonderful car sign pictures haha.

We headed into Classic Hall and checked in!

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We had done online check in so it was quick, easy and painless. I was so happy since the regular line wasn’t super long but they were taking a long time with each guest to explain MyMagic+. I guess the ten emails and multiple mailings weren’t enough.

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We headed to our rooms to drop off our stuff and we were greeted by the classic Mickey Towel Head. We were finally on Vacation!

We were in the 50’s in the first building right next to Classic Hall. Our view was just of some privacy bushes but the location was great!

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Mum and I shared a room because my Dad tends to snore a lot of vacation haha

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We totally used to have a mickey phone like that.

Funny thing is, we had rooms right next to each other but my Dad’s room had the new bedding but ours didn’t. I have to say the new bedding looks a lot more comfy and those old comforters were so heavy haha.

By the time we dropped our stuff off it was 6:15pm, the night was still young, what were we to do?!
 
Joining in!!

Sounds like a pretty perfect travel day! Always nice to wake up to frost, and end the day in FL! :thumbsup2
 
What a great start! I love that you enjoy trips with your parents!
 
Hi Jess! I'm joining in. We arrived on 12/5 at about the same time in the SW terminal. I'll check my photos to see if you are in them. :laughing:

Sounds like you got yourself to sunny Florida just in time. Weren't those temps wonderful? :love:

I need to go read your PTR and see the back story.
 
Joining in to hear all about your fun trip. Going to head to the pre-trip to read about the redo as well.
 
Aww that is so cute that Baxter knew what was up. Animals are so intuitive and amazing.

Oh... My... GOD!!! Look at those security lines, or perhaps better to say LACK of security lines. My airport is like that too.
I haven't gotten the security Fastpass yet though.

Awww what about all the people on the flight going to Universal???? Oh wait, there aren't any. :lmao:

YAY Dollar Express. So Awesome!

And YAY for POP AND for 50's. This is the best part of the trip. Everything is all yet to come!! So exciting.
 
I got to do the express line at MCO security, it was awesome!

LOVE the car sign pictures.

Ahhh I am so excited to be heading back to Pop. We booked preferred (my aunt insisted) so hopefully we get as good of a location as you guys did!
 
Awesome update!!

Looks like your journey over to Disney was good and fun one! I've heard great things about SW and am sad that they don't fly from Canada lol! They seem awesome!

Pop is home! Love it there, especially in the 50's!
 
Following along! :)

Welcome!

Joining in!!

Sounds like a pretty perfect travel day! Always nice to wake up to frost, and end the day in FL! :thumbsup2

It was so nice!

What a great start! I love that you enjoy trips with your parents!

Thank you! And I'm glad too that I like to travel with my folks, it's nice to spend the time with them!

Hi Jess! I'm joining in. We arrived on 12/5 at about the same time in the SW terminal. I'll check my photos to see if you are in them. :laughing:

Sounds like you got yourself to sunny Florida just in time. Weren't those temps wonderful? :love:

I need to go read your PTR and see the back story.

Hello! So nice to have you here!

That would be too funny if you found me in one of your photos

SO wonderful! I think that was the best week we've ever had weather wise in WDW!
 

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