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The trip to make up for the cold (July 2012) Done 02/04

Yes, this trip is the trip we took to make up for our trip to Disneyland in March. We said it didn't count because we found it too cold! We loved Disneyland, and California, the people, the hotel, everything. We just were bad Canadians who didn't like the cold!

If you haven’t read my other trip reports, you’re welcome to do so to learn a little more about me and my sister and our friend. We go by the Golden Girls and call ourselves Blanche, Rose and Dorothy. In real life, we alternate by our attitudes/behaviors, but for the trip reports, I am always Dorothy, Rose is always my sister (who didn’t get to come on the last two trips!) and Rose’s sister in law is always Blanche.

I am Dorothy, long time, big time Disney fan and I’m currently a French Immersion kindergarten teacher. Between pre-service teaching, full time classrooms and short term contracts, I’ve taught every grade between K-12 (French Immersion or Core French) except for grades one and six, although I’ve covered both for a sub day here or there). I love taking pictures, traveling, reading, (and more) and I come from a huge family. I have 9 siblings and 16 nieces and nephews so far. I really wish the tag fairy would find me with something fun.

This is me in at Disneyland in March 2012. (The trip that we need to make up for the cold, right?)

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Untitled by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

This is Blanche. She’s the oldest of the three of us (only two for this trip). She is a paediatric nurse and also has nine siblings. I’m sure she has tons of nieces and nephews, but I don’t know the exact number. We share 2 nieces and 2 nephews though. She loves to travel and to read, but she doesn’t take pictures. Unfortunately, about 2 years ago, she hurt her hip and it still hasn’t healed, so she can’t do as many rides as she’d like. About 2 weeks before the trip, she broke her foot. Yep. Disney with a sore hip, and then a broken foot. Sore right hip. Broken left foot. Think about it! But we still went, with plans for many breaks. We went to Disneyland in March (trip report is in my signature), but we found it really, really cold. So we said that the trip could not count! We like hot weather… We loved Disneyland, but we were freezing most of the time. (We can get that here! We don’t need it on vacation in March).

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Minnie by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Here we both are, to show you just how cold it was:

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Untitled by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

You can read my TR if you want to read about the cold, but amazing trip, here is the link. I want to go back to DL, but I will do that in the summer, thank you very much!!!

July 18, Part 1: On the way!

I always start my other trip reports writing really fun, but then slow down in the end and just post pictures. So this time, I’ll just start with a back story and mostly pictures and we’ll see what happens!

As is tradition, my nephew, who is now 17, but was 12 when I took him to Disney, spent the night at my place and came with us to the airport. Rose drove Dorothy to my house to pick us up, and we were at the airport. We went to the washroom before security and I met a Diser! She noticed my sweater, or my t-shirt, or my watch, or my earrings, or my ring, or my shoes! Hahaha. I can’t remember. I wrote down her Disname, but I can’t find where I wrote it! It was soos (and some numbers) or suze (and some numbers). So if you’re reading, it was lovely to meet you!

We went through security and Blanche had a Rose moment and realized she forgot her sunglasses in her car. The real Rose and my nephew had already gone, so she called them, and they would come back. I told one of the security people what happened when I saw my sister and they said to let her just put the glasses on the belt and I would pick them up on the other side. No need to go through security again! Small PEI airport has definite benefits! (besides being about 3 minutes from home!)

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Oops! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

So we really had an uneventful flight. I think we were a little delayed, because we were not the only ones worried about our connection. Blanche got a wheelchair and held my carryon bag on her lap, (I packed light and had a little tote as a carryon) and I kept my slingback camera bag on my back, pushed the wheelchair and rolled her carryon too. Thank goodness we were flying through Montreal and we didn’t need to get our checked bags. We had met a couple from PEI that were on the same flight, and they sped off ahead of us, but we somehow made it through customs before them. The gentleman ended up sitting beside me on the flight. We were talking about his job (fisheries and environment) and then somehow we ended up talking faith and that both Blanche and I were single… Not sure how that all happened, but he was friendly. He offered to pray for us that we’ll find our matches and said that sometimes it takes as little as three hours. The whole trip long we kept saying “our three hours have past!” I’m not belittling his Faith or anything else, I actually thought it was sweet that he was going to pray for us. It was the time frame that got us giggling. So we chatted through parts of the flight, I made Blanche watch the first episode of Once Upon a Time, and I watched the first two (again!).

Before we knew it, we saw this sign:

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Magical Express 1 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

I don’t think we waited 5 minutes to get on our bus, in fact, I think we just walked right on from the time we entered the line. We were also the first stop off the bus, and we were at our resort and checked in within an hour and 15 minutes of landing.

I love getting “real” DME buses!

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DME 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

See Blanche’s boot? It was not easy for her to climb the stairs.

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Broken foot by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

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DME 3 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

I really have to buy me some Mickey hands next time!

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Mickey hand by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Our driver, telling us which hotels were our drop off points.

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DME driver by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

*sigh* Palm trees.

Blanche was probably sore. I was extremely happy, and I can’t help but show it!

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Happy to be in FL! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

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DME 4 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Getting closer! (One day I’ll be able to get an awesome shot of this without the big line in the middle and the windshield wipers!)

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Yay! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

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Yay! 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Sorry… I photoshopped the bug guts out in the other ones, but these next few it was right in the way…

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Yay! 3 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

And I know that is a lot of pictures for the sign, but we all know how much we love to see this sign! (If you don’t, you’re on the wrong discussion board and you may as well stop reading my Trip Report Right away because you’ll be seeing a lot of pictures you won’t like if this sign doesn’t make you happy!)

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Yay! 4 (ew bug) by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

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Almost there! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

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Port Orleans Riverside 1 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Someone on here once mentioned how much they loved the moss at POR because it made them feel like they were there in FL, so I took a picture for them.

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POR 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Port Orleans Riverside

I'm here! Now to go back and read!!

Enjoying your trip report. We will be at POR in November. I can't wait to see your pics.

Loving your pictures! Can't wait to see more! :)

Lovely pictures! I'm looking forward to the rest of your report.

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Originally Posted by kaoden39 (Post 46063115)

I'm here! Now to go back and read!!

Welcome to this trip report! When is your next trip? I don't tend to read pre-trip reports, but I know I read your last trip report.

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Originally Posted by DBLGRR (Post 46063326)

Enjoying your trip report. We will be at POR in November. I can't wait to see your pics.

Thanks! I hope you love POR. It is extremely beautiful there! There will be many more pictures to come. I'm off to do another few updates when I'm done catching up!

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Originally Posted by JessiMommy (Post 46066736)

Loving your pictures! Can't wait to see more! :)

Thanks! There will be many! I tend to put lots of pictures in my trip reports.

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Originally Posted by mickeystoontown (Post 46067703)

Joining in!

Welcome!

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Originally Posted by Lzylitnin (Post 46069654)

Lovely pictures! I'm looking forward to the rest of your report.

Thank you! Off I go...

Hey, I just so this guy... I like him! Hee hee hee! :duck: No throwing things at me if you don't like my TR!

What a pretty resort! Poor Blanche looks in pain.

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Originally Posted by kaoden39 (Post 46072450)

What a pretty resort! Poor Blanche looks in pain.

Oh my goodness! The resort was very beautiful. I'm going to have to go back to take more pictures, even if I'm not staying there!

Blanche was in pain, she needed to take breaks. But she didn't complain! She was a real trooper.

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Originally Posted by DisneyFreak06 (Post 46072153)

Welcome to this trip report! When is your next trip? I don't tend to read pre-trip reports, but I know I read your last trip report.

Thanks! I hope you love POR. It is extremely beautiful there! There will be many more pictures to come. I'm off to do another few updates when I'm done catching up!

Thanks! There will be many! I tend to put lots of pictures in my trip reports.

Welcome!

Thank you! Off I go...

Hey, I just so this guy... I like him! Hee hee hee! :duck: No throwing things at me if you don't like my TR!

Our trip is November 11th - November 16th. There is a huge group of use going. There are going to be nine of us.

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Originally Posted by DisneyFreak06 (Post 46072644)

That's good that Blanche is a trooper, it's so hard to have fun when you are in pain.