ebtbmom
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2009
Our 2006 trip was with DHs family, and it was pretty bad (he agrees!). It was his mom, 2 brothers, 1 wife, and 4 kids in addition to us 3. We initially had the trip planned just for our family, we invited ONLY his parents and 1 niece. His dad invited the rest of the family and then proceeded to back out of the trip.
They wouldn't stay where we were staying (POP) and stayed off property to save money. They were late for EVERY park day and EVERY ADR. We would be walking through the park and suddenly realize that the 2 brothers were missing! They would take off to ride what they wanted to ride and leave us and my MIL with all the kids. They actually stated that they did this because we go more often than they do.
My SIL has some vague medical problems that cause her to be "exhausted" on some days and yet bursting with energy on others. Some days she didn't even show up, coincidentally on the days she didn't really want to do what we were doing? But when she was afraid she was going to miss Spectromagic she loaded up the kids in her wheelchair and full on ran them to the handicapped seating section from Tomorrowland!
Finally we had left my dad and uncle renovating our bathroom while we were gone. We returned to our entire bathroom being gutted and the remnants and trash sitting on our deck. Our cats had been stressed out by this and had pooped/puked all over the house!
Lessons of this trip: never travel with others!! We have a small family for a reason.
Also, while it sounds sensible to do home renovations when you're out of town, no, not really!
They wouldn't stay where we were staying (POP) and stayed off property to save money. They were late for EVERY park day and EVERY ADR. We would be walking through the park and suddenly realize that the 2 brothers were missing! They would take off to ride what they wanted to ride and leave us and my MIL with all the kids. They actually stated that they did this because we go more often than they do.
My SIL has some vague medical problems that cause her to be "exhausted" on some days and yet bursting with energy on others. Some days she didn't even show up, coincidentally on the days she didn't really want to do what we were doing? But when she was afraid she was going to miss Spectromagic she loaded up the kids in her wheelchair and full on ran them to the handicapped seating section from Tomorrowland!
Finally we had left my dad and uncle renovating our bathroom while we were gone. We returned to our entire bathroom being gutted and the remnants and trash sitting on our deck. Our cats had been stressed out by this and had pooped/puked all over the house!
Lessons of this trip: never travel with others!! We have a small family for a reason.
Also, while it sounds sensible to do home renovations when you're out of town, no, not really!