With all the planing and preparing for our frist family trip to disney, we are finally back!!!
Loki and I will post about our experiances, the food, and the resort in the upcoming days.
But I did want to post this for those planning a trip with thier children.
Frist off ..it was an incredible, magical trip. before we left I took a recent family photo of loki, DD ( 5) and I and on the back of that wrote
My name is......
my mommy's name is.....
my daddy's name is
we are staying at ASMo may 3rd-9th
pager # is......
and this was kept in a ziplock bag in her fanny pack. she did not leave the hotel room unless that pack was on her and it did not come off till we were back in the room that night.
i did this because I wanted the cm's to know WHO they were looking to return her to.
also
apon entering the parks I introduced her to cm's ..pointed out thier name badges and told her to always look for one..they would be by rides and stores and food carts..and if she couldnt see us they would help her find us.
I NEVER THOUGHT IT ALL THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE NEEDED!!!!!
Both loki and I are ever watching our child. we are always watching her and communicating on which of us is with her.
it was about an 1 1/2 before sat's mk fireworks. we stopped at the bridge leading into fantasy land to take a quick picture...she was in the stroller happily eating her ice. Literlly it was about as long as ..honey, the castle looks beutiful from here, please take a picture...picture is taken..we stroll on, walk to the hub entrance of future world to walk a stake out a small spot we found earlier (literally maybe, MAYBE a span of 3 mins has past) loki turns to talk to DD and says..where's _______! i say..in the stroller..pull back the hood and she was GONE!!!!!
I remember saying wheres my daughter...and I ran to the bridge...(enter 15 sec time lapse..it was literlly that close) DD is no where in sight.... I think at that moment when i scanned the area I realized how many people were there....i can tell you my heart did stop, This was the frist time ever of losing sight of my child.
Loki started to look and I remember shouting 'wheres a cm??) I ran to a cart selling somthing and by chance saw a cm walking on the sidewalk. I blurted out, "I cant find my daughter, help me (insert hysterical mother tears here)
The cm was wonderful... he remained calm as the people were filling into the hub for the firworks. Loki shouted he would continue to look. The cm guided me to city hall as I recited everything I had remembered about DD, her hair style, how many clips in her hair, her dress, the butterflies on the front, her sandles, EVERYTHING! and anything that would stand out...most important i told him about the fanny pack and the info inside. he took all this information down at city hall. as he was typing I looked out the doors..and I saw the front gates...i swear I have never had such a feeling of dread..what if someone got her out the gates???
the cm then talked over the walkie talkie, descibed her briefly before the other cm remarked she had already been found. !!! (about 10 mins have pasted since stopping to take the photo..maybe 15)
they then told me to go to the baby care center, I would meet her there. Now I am a hefty girl...i dont run.....let me tell you I dont think my feet touched the ground running up main street through that crowd. when i got there the center had already got the call and that DD was being escorted by guards to the center..it would be about 15 mins..god it took forever! DD was chatting away until i saw her and bolted to pick her up..we were both then crying..I have never known such relife!..I hugs the guards and thank them so much...I was sooo thankful of disney for having such a system inplace.
what the guards did share with me was that DD had walked over the bridge and made it to the teacups (if I had walked further when we had frist lost her I would have probly found her.... but I had soooo conditioned my self not to panick and to find a cm)
She then walked up to a cm, told them her name and that she could not find me or daddy, and then told them to look in her pouch to find me. the cm was amazed at the information on her, how calm she was, and how she intentionally looked for a cm.
all I can say is that I am soooo glad I took those extra moments to pack that picture, that extra 5 mins out to show her a cm badge.
she did it, excatly how she was suppose to.
we headed back to the bridge and met up with a very panicked daddy eventually who told a cm he had lost his fiancee while looking for his lost child..they pointed him in the right direction.
we sat down and hugged, cried and waited for tinkerbell to fly and then had a very magical moment watching the fireworks.
The reason for the rather long story is to give a glimpse of what actually happens when a child is lost. Inever ever thought it would happen to us...but being nuerotic , I planned anyways. I saw soooooo may parents not watching children..children running hither and yon. kids playing with no adults in sight.......they were not lost, My child , who is watched always, was lost. It can happen to anyone
plan plan plan....hopefully you will never have to go through this experiance,,, buts its good to know disney is prepared and will help.
by the way.... DD wanted to see if ariel was in the moat , so had gotten out of the stroller while we thought we we "alll " watching the castle.
it only takes a second!
Loki and I will post about our experiances, the food, and the resort in the upcoming days.
But I did want to post this for those planning a trip with thier children.
Frist off ..it was an incredible, magical trip. before we left I took a recent family photo of loki, DD ( 5) and I and on the back of that wrote
My name is......
my mommy's name is.....
my daddy's name is
we are staying at ASMo may 3rd-9th
pager # is......
and this was kept in a ziplock bag in her fanny pack. she did not leave the hotel room unless that pack was on her and it did not come off till we were back in the room that night.
i did this because I wanted the cm's to know WHO they were looking to return her to.
also
apon entering the parks I introduced her to cm's ..pointed out thier name badges and told her to always look for one..they would be by rides and stores and food carts..and if she couldnt see us they would help her find us.
I NEVER THOUGHT IT ALL THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE NEEDED!!!!!
Both loki and I are ever watching our child. we are always watching her and communicating on which of us is with her.
it was about an 1 1/2 before sat's mk fireworks. we stopped at the bridge leading into fantasy land to take a quick picture...she was in the stroller happily eating her ice. Literlly it was about as long as ..honey, the castle looks beutiful from here, please take a picture...picture is taken..we stroll on, walk to the hub entrance of future world to walk a stake out a small spot we found earlier (literally maybe, MAYBE a span of 3 mins has past) loki turns to talk to DD and says..where's _______! i say..in the stroller..pull back the hood and she was GONE!!!!!
I remember saying wheres my daughter...and I ran to the bridge...(enter 15 sec time lapse..it was literlly that close) DD is no where in sight.... I think at that moment when i scanned the area I realized how many people were there....i can tell you my heart did stop, This was the frist time ever of losing sight of my child.
Loki started to look and I remember shouting 'wheres a cm??) I ran to a cart selling somthing and by chance saw a cm walking on the sidewalk. I blurted out, "I cant find my daughter, help me (insert hysterical mother tears here)
The cm was wonderful... he remained calm as the people were filling into the hub for the firworks. Loki shouted he would continue to look. The cm guided me to city hall as I recited everything I had remembered about DD, her hair style, how many clips in her hair, her dress, the butterflies on the front, her sandles, EVERYTHING! and anything that would stand out...most important i told him about the fanny pack and the info inside. he took all this information down at city hall. as he was typing I looked out the doors..and I saw the front gates...i swear I have never had such a feeling of dread..what if someone got her out the gates???
the cm then talked over the walkie talkie, descibed her briefly before the other cm remarked she had already been found. !!! (about 10 mins have pasted since stopping to take the photo..maybe 15)
they then told me to go to the baby care center, I would meet her there. Now I am a hefty girl...i dont run.....let me tell you I dont think my feet touched the ground running up main street through that crowd. when i got there the center had already got the call and that DD was being escorted by guards to the center..it would be about 15 mins..god it took forever! DD was chatting away until i saw her and bolted to pick her up..we were both then crying..I have never known such relife!..I hugs the guards and thank them so much...I was sooo thankful of disney for having such a system inplace.
what the guards did share with me was that DD had walked over the bridge and made it to the teacups (if I had walked further when we had frist lost her I would have probly found her.... but I had soooo conditioned my self not to panick and to find a cm)
She then walked up to a cm, told them her name and that she could not find me or daddy, and then told them to look in her pouch to find me. the cm was amazed at the information on her, how calm she was, and how she intentionally looked for a cm.
all I can say is that I am soooo glad I took those extra moments to pack that picture, that extra 5 mins out to show her a cm badge.
she did it, excatly how she was suppose to.
we headed back to the bridge and met up with a very panicked daddy eventually who told a cm he had lost his fiancee while looking for his lost child..they pointed him in the right direction.
we sat down and hugged, cried and waited for tinkerbell to fly and then had a very magical moment watching the fireworks.
The reason for the rather long story is to give a glimpse of what actually happens when a child is lost. Inever ever thought it would happen to us...but being nuerotic , I planned anyways. I saw soooooo may parents not watching children..children running hither and yon. kids playing with no adults in sight.......they were not lost, My child , who is watched always, was lost. It can happen to anyone
plan plan plan....hopefully you will never have to go through this experiance,,, buts its good to know disney is prepared and will help.
by the way.... DD wanted to see if ariel was in the moat , so had gotten out of the stroller while we thought we we "alll " watching the castle.
it only takes a second!